The tiny Balkan country of scarcely more than 600,000 people is known mostly for its sunny Adriatic beaches – so why is Trump portraying it as a threat? For three decades, since returning from his mysterious trip to Moscow in...
-
-
Donald Trump Tosses Word-Salad, Ends His Presidency in Helsinki
It was like nothing anybody had ever seen. Nobody acquainted with Donald Trump expected the July 16 Helsinki summit—which wasn’t really a summit, more like a one-on-one-date between the presidents of Russia and the United States, to use the reality...
-
This Is How Vladimir Putin Manufactures Conflict Between Nations
As Helsinki’s one-on-one presidential summit looms, with foreign policy mavens fearing that Vladimir Putin will run circles around a clueless Donald Trump, it’s time to examine what makes the Kremlin’s Chekist-in-Chief tick. Our president’s troubling statement that Putin and his...
-
A Divided America Does Not Mean Civil War
Civil war is in the air this steamy summer—at least according to the opinion polls. Many Americans are unhappy to the point of despondency about our political divisions, which have been mounting for years and have reached a crisis point...
-
The Spy Brief: Dead Drop: 30 June 2018
Subscribers OnlyAccess all of thespybrief's premium content and the private Twitter feed via Premo
Not a subscriber yet?
Powered by
Validation unsuccessful.
Please subscribe to access the premium content.
Here are some recent intelligence and security stories that you might have missed but which are informative and even fun. Truth is not infrequently stranger than fiction, especially in espionage. Enjoy! Vienna wants Berlin to comment on reports that German... -
Smearing NSA Helps No One but the Kremlin
Yesterday, The Intercept returned to its roots. Established in 2014 to pimp the vast trove of U.S. intelligence documents stolen by Edward Snowden before he fled to Moscow, the website gained notoriety for its trenchant left-wing views and consistent condemnation...
-
Liberal Nazi Hysteria Is Helping Trump Bigly
This was the week that President Donald Trump finally went too far. Our transgressor-in-chief overdid it, as was bound to happen eventually. His hardline on immigration, which did so much to get him elected two years ago, galvanizing voters while...
-
Trump Betrayed Our Military by Saluting North Korea
President Donald Trump’s much ballyhooed Singapore pseudo-summit this week with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s hereditary strongman, was a bizarre event by any standards, even Trump’s high ones for strangeness and norm-breaking. The mere fact that North Korea, the world’s nastiest...
-
The Murder That Changed Germany
Every so often, a crime occurs that so shocks the public, while perfectly playing to the political zeitgeist, that it radically alters debates—and ultimately politics. For Germans of the baby boom generation, that crime was the murder of Benno Ohnesorg,...
-
Chinese Theft of US Navy’s Secrets Reveals DoD’s Lackadaisical Security
Yesterday brought stunning news of yet another security lapse by our Navy. As reported by The Washington Post, Chinese hackers in the first two months of this year penetrated the computers of an unnamed defense contractor, “stealing massive amounts of...