Surely, this is just another “loony left” headline about Elliott Abrams, the administration’s point man on Venezuela, whom some say has been unfairly pilloried on Capitol Hill. If you read this September 1986 National Security Council email, written by NSC staffer Oliver North, you’ll see the headline is not over-stated but factually precise and faithful...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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DARPA: AI Could Bring Mental Telepathy to the Battlefront
Can you imagine shooting a gun just by thinking? The resident geniuses at DARPA can. They are in the fine phrase of Sharon Weinberger, “The Imagineers of War.” (If you’re obsessed with DARPA like me, read Weinberger’s book. The people at DARPA sometimes make the future, and sometimes fail miserably.) Now they’re talking about mental...
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Why Trump Is Going After Dan Coats, Not Gina Haspel
Dan Coats, Director of the Office National Intelligence, is a low-key man in hot water, says The Washington Post. Coats got his start in Washington politics as a congressman from Indiana. In the 1980s he was sometimes confused with Dan Quayle, his fellow Hoosier in the House. Quayle was better looking than Coats but a much...
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Not a Coup: Bipartisan Gang Of 8 Did Not Object to FBI’s Trump Probe
The “Gang of Eight” is Washington shorthand for the congressional leaders who are privy to almost all secret intelligence information held by the U.S. government. They are the majority and minority leaders in the Senate, the Speaker of the House and the House minority leader, and the ranking Democrats and Republicans on the House and...
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Can Bill Barr Bury Mueller’s Report?
The Attorney General Bill Barr has made statements indicating the think he can, under Justice Department guidelines, prevent the release of the final report of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Barr believes a sitting president can’t be indicted (a view held by the Justice Department) that any reporting about an unindicted person is a threat to...