Understandable Insights: Information to Intelligence with Sue Gordon
Welcome to “Understandable Insights: Information to Intelligence with Sue Gordon” — the national security podcast that provides you an elemental understanding of the world as it is, not how you prefer it to be.
Each week, Eric — a former Marine, father, and entrepreneur — sits down with the Honorable Sue Gordon, the nation’s former top career intelligence officer. Together, they break down the headlines shaping our world and ask what they really mean for citizens, leaders, and institutions.
From armed conflict to emerging tech, foreign interference to the resilience of democracy — this is where raw information becomes real intelligence. Unfiltered. Candid. Unapologetically clear.
New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe now.
Podcasting since 2025 • 42 episodes
Understandable Insights: Information to Intelligence with Sue Gordon
Latest Episodes
Ep. 36 When Intelligence and Policy Collide—The Cost of Public Friction and What It Signals
In this episode, Sue and Eric discuss the recently released Intelligence Community Annual Threat Assessment and the open hearings before Congress that put it through its paces. Against a backdrop of differing views of presidential policy decisi...
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Episode 36
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Ep. 35: Citizens Keep Exercising Their Power
Bracketology: Men’s March Madness Bracket
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Episode 35
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Ep. 34 When the Rules Stop Working
Rules only work when the environment they were built for still exists.This week on Understandable Insights, Sue and Eric examine three developments shaping today’s strategic landscape: Iran’s evolving leadership dynamics, the ac...
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Episode 34
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Ep. 33 Independence Is Not Insulation
Stress doesn't create weakness, stress reveals it.In this episode, Sue and Eric discuss that independence is not insulation. Isolation increases fragility when the stress rises; speed feels decisive and legitimacy feels slow, but durabil...
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Episode 33
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Ep. 32 The Framework Without The Foundation
What happens when authority skips the hard part?This week, every headline had the same structural flaw: we’re trying to build something consequential on a foundation we haven’t poured. We’re seeing frameworks, boards, speeches, deadlines...
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Episode 32
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