From Just Security blog comes a warning. As people get sicker, democracy is getting weaker. Long before this pandemic erupted, a multi-year wave of governments cracking down on dissent, flouting international norms, and backtracking from cooperative alliances was disheartening. But now, at a moment when we need a coordinated and transparent global response, the full...
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Military Intelligence on Coronavirus: ‘We Can’t Refight the Last War.’
Lt. Gen Guy Swan on Coronavirus and the Military When you look at military or intelligence failures over the years, and the word failures can be a bit harsh, but when the US has failed to achieve a desired level of safety or security, it is true that the after action reports reflect a failure...
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Netanyahu Turns to Mossad to Help Him Manage Coronavirus Crisis
Yossi Cohen is the chief of Mossad and possible successor toindicted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Cohen is the man who first talked publicly about assassinating Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. As Israel copes with the COVID19 crisis, Netanyahu has tapped Cohen to obtain medical supplies from Mossad’s intelligence networks. Mossad reportedly delivered 10 million masks....
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White Supremacists Look to Weaponize COVID-19
From the Cipher Brief In late February, the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service circulated an intelligence briefing to state and local law enforcement agencies which highlighted that white supremacists had discussed the possibility of using coronavirus as a bioweapon to be directed against its enemies, to include the FBI and non-white communities. Interest...
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Does Trump’s Purge of the Intelligence Community Make Us Less Safe?
Last month, Trump replaced the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) with the lightly-qualified Stephen Grenell, former ambassodr to Germany. Grenell proceeded to fire the head of the DNI’s counterterrorism center. This prompted some wailing from the national security establishment and predictable praise for Loras Shiao, the career official whom Grennell chose to replace Travers. Top...