In his recent book “Rise and Kill First,” journalist Ronen Bergman lays bare one of the distinctions of Israeli’s intelligence: a program of targetted assassination that has no rival. While the Russian FSB has record of using poison and the American CIA uses drones neither is as prolific in killings its perceived foes as Israel’s...
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Inside the Discord Leak: U.S. Air Force Loves War Gamers Like Teixeira
British Intelligence Privately Says Israel Has Nuclear Weapons But Won’t Admit it Publicly
Mexican President Accuses Pentagon of Spying, Vows to Restrict Military Information
Daniel Ellsberg Week Honors Pentagon Whistleblower
How Twitter Became a Propaganda Tool of U.S. Central Command
Interview With the Father of a Palestinian Fighter Assassinated by Israeli Special Forces
Chinese Police Station in New York Is Part of a Vast Influence Operation
Catch-22 at Guantanamo, or How Due Process Got Undone
Wagner Group Leader Calls for End to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’
Once Ridiculed, the ‘October Surprise’ Deal Between Reagan and Iran Is Now Confirmed
Two Senators Allege ‘Secret’ CIA spying on Unwitting Americans
UK Spy Agency Says AI Chatbots Pose a Security Threat
How Aerial Surveillance Has Evolved Over the Past 200 Years
Wagner Mercenary Chief Says He Ran Russian Information War
Iranians Outraged After Shah-Era Secret-Police Official Attends U.S. Rally
Israeli-led Disinformation Team Meddled in Dozens of Elections
Director of National Intelligence Barred From Reporting on Domestic Extremists in U.S. Armed Forces
Iranian Intelligence Official Says China in Line to Buy Tehran’s Drones
Former Mossad Chief Urges Compromise on Judicial Shakeup
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The Origins (and Dangers) of Cyberwar
From Michael Martelle at the National Security Archive, the untold story of a 1997 Pentagon exercise that showed how cyberwar could–and probably would–turn into kinetic war.
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Anatomy of a War Crime Averted
From a top secret Pentagon report seen by The Intercept: “a minute-by-minute account of a single airstrike [that] provides a small yet detailed window into the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen.”
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Former CIA Officer Makes the Case for Stripping Former Officials of their Security Clearances
In Consortium News, John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who went to jail for telling a reporter about the agency’s torture program, argues that security clearances for retired official has “abuse written all over it.” I think Trump is using the clearance issue as a means to get control the intelligence community, but Kiriakou’s questions are...
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Trump’s ‘Deep State’ rhetoric debunked by Tim Wiener
Tim Wiener, formerly of the New York Times, is one of the country’s leading intelligence writers. His histories of the CIA (Legacy of Ashes) and the FBI (Enemies) are brisk best-sellers that render harsh judgement on these agencies. (He is too harsh according to the CIA.) In a long review essay for the New York...