The Dossier

Jordan Schachtel

Booking Overview

An investigative reporting interview show focused on technology policy, artificial intelligence, national security, defense innovation, and political influence operations, typically featuring researchers, executives, policy specialists, and commentators with direct subject-matter expertise. Suitable clients include investigative journalists, technology-policy experts, defense founders, national-security specialists, and political researchers; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need credible professional credentials and a strong perspective on contentious issues.

Metrics

Episodes: 34

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

jds921@gmail.com

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Host

Jordan Schachtel - Independent investigative journalist and publisher focused on original reporting and analysis of technology, politics, national security, and related public-policy issues.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Subject-matter experts with direct experience in technology policy, artificial intelligence, national security, defense innovation, investigative research, or political influence operations. Recent guests include venture and nonprofit executives, investigative researchers, established commentators, and defense-technology founders.

Required Achievements:

Leading a relevant technology, policy, research, or defense organization, Producing significant investigative research or public analysis, Founding or developing an innovative defense or technology venture, Holding a recognized leadership or commentary role in a contested policy debate

Recent Guest Discussions

Brian Chau - Ai-assisted Investigative Reporting, Technology-sector Politics, AI Safety Debates, And The Business Factions Shaping Artificial Intelligence.

Nathan Leamer - AI Infrastructure, Data Centers, Technology Policy, Jobs, National Competitiveness, And Political Opposition To Artificial Intelligence Development.

Parker Thayer - Astroturf Organizations, Influence Laundering, Political Networks, Activist Funding, And Opposition To AI And Energy Infrastructure.

Tony Kinnett - Data Centers, Nuclear Energy, Technology Development, Infrastructure, And Ideological Divisions Within American Conservatism.

Yadin Soffer - Tunnel Warfare, Defense Innovation, Autonomous Machinery, Military Technology, And The Strategic Importance Of Subterranean Operations.

Recent Topics

Politics, Technology Policy, Artificial Intelligence, National Security, Defense Technology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Dossier

Using AI To Break Stories, And The Doomsday Cult Haunting Big Tech — Guest: Brian Chau

August 14, 2026

On this episode of The Dossier Podcast, we have Brian Chau on the show. He’s the CEO of the newly launched Effort.News, which Chau argues is a genuinely new model for investigative journalism. We talk about the stories sitting untouched for years — what Chau calls “crowns laying in the gutter” — simply because nobody wants to comb through millions of pages of grant tables, financial disclosures, and legal filings. Where most outlets have tried to use AI to write, Chau says that’s backwards: t...

Debunking the Doomers: Data Centers, Jobs, and the Fight for AI's Future — Guest: Nathan Leamer

July 17, 2026

Today we are chatting with Nathan Leamer, Executive Director of Build American AI and a longtime fixture in DC’s tech-policy circles, for a rapid-fire tour through the fights shaping America’s AI buildout. We dig into “Humans First,” a self-styled conservative anti-AI group that Leamer has been researching — an operation incorporated in San Francisco, seeded by Center for AI Safety money, and staffed by “Pause AI” activists, yet positioning itself as grassroots and right-coded ahead of a wave...

Astroturf operations targeting the American right — Guest: Parker Thayer

July 07, 2026

In this episode of The Dossier Podcast, I sit down with Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, to unpack one of the most sophisticated astroturf operations targeting the American right today. Parker contributed to a viral exposé of Humans First, an activist group masquerading as a grassroots conservative outfit while pushing to halt the construction of American technological infrastructure nationwide. We reveal how left-wing Silicon Valley money, Effective ...

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