I first spent time with Dan Ellsberg at a writer’s retreat in 2016. I was writing The Ghost about counterintelligence...
October 29, 2022October 29, 2022
CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine
U.S. intelligence reports at the time predicted that Kyiv would fall quickly, perhaps in a week or two at the...
July 11, 2022July 11, 2022
DHS Scrambles to Counter Violent Extremism in America
Federal efforts to counter violent extremism “aim to educate and prevent radicalization before a crime or terrorist act transpires, and...
April 28, 2022April 28, 2022
Vicious Blame Game Erupts Among Putin’s Security Forces
Sergei Beseda, one of the heads of the Fifth Service of the FSB, who gathers political intelligence on Ukraine and...
April 15, 2022April 15, 2022
Sex, Lies, and UFOs: Pentagon Counterintelligence Chief Ousted
In May 2021, Reid was named in yet another formal IG complaint, this time involving former Director of National...
April 11, 2022April 11, 2022
Torture Prevented the Prosecution of the 9/11 Terrorists
More than 20 years after the September 11 attacks, these cases are still pending for the sole reason that the...
February 22, 2022February 22, 2022
Data Leak Exposes How a Swiss Bank Served Strongmen and Spies
As the head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan helped funnel billions of dollars in cash...
February 3, 2022February 3, 2022
Zero-Click Spying: Second Israeli Firm Exploited iPhone Flaw
The two rival businesses gained the same ability last year to remotely break into iPhones, according to the five sources,...
February 1, 2022February 1, 2022
Biden Team Rejects Evidence Tainted by CIA Torture
Rather than trying to parse various statements made when the petitioner was held in black sites, the government brief concludes...
January 28, 2022January 27, 2022
NATO Forces in Europe Are No Match for Revitalized Russian Army
From Scott Ritter, former arms control inspector, writing in RT: Without projecting Russian intent, the reality is that the Russian...
January 27, 2022January 27, 2022
How U.S. Pentagon Hawks Assess Iran and Its Allies
From the pro-CIA Cipher Brief This network of Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Bahrain, and possibly elsewhere is...
January 26, 2022January 26, 2022
6 Startling Revelations From Declassified U.S. Government Documents
From HowStuffWorks “The [public] tolerance for the secrecy of these organizations has become smaller,” Pfeiffer says. “There’s a demand...
