The disappearance and apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi have disrupted the Saudi government’s charm offensive in the United States. Think tanks are returning Saudi money. Defense contractors are worried about the end of lucrative arms deals. Sen. Marco Rubio says “no more business as usual.” The otherwise friendly editorial page of the Washington Post is...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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What Did Jared Know?
The Khashoggi affair has rattled the Washington-Riyadh-Tel Aviv axis and swept the story of the two Russian GRU agents accused of poisoning a Putin critic off the home pages of the planet. The global news cycle, while capacious can only handle one story about a pro-Trump autocrat seeking to assassinate a critic in a foreign...
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Inside DARPA’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains
The brains at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency are pushing the frontier of neuro-technology. When pressed by reporter Michael Joseph Gross, DARPA officials downplay the sci-fi implications of their work but the goal of integrating computer technology into the human brain seems unmistakeable. And secrecy conceals much of what they do.
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Khashoggi Crisis War Drives Iran Off the Front Pages
Khashoggi’s Watch In a plot twist straight out of a Hollywood horror flick, Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch may have recorded his death. Khashoggi’s “interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both his phone and to iCloud,” Turkish media reported. U.S. intelligence agencies–probably the NSA–had advance notice of Saudi intentions to waylay Khashoggi at the Saudi...
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These Women Say the CIA Is a Good Place for Women
Four female CIA officers told a crowd of aspiring intelligence professionals at the Spy Museum that the agency is good place to work.