I’ve already noted how pundits are misrepresenting the current diplomatic moves regarding Iran’s nuclear program – some of them radically so – but something few Western commentators discuss is why Iran wants The Bomb. Since, no matter what they say,...
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Why Iran wants The Bomb
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Denmark gets ahead of the Snowden Operation
Having watched several NATO partners get skewered by selectively sourced press stories alleging nefarious espionage activities, all care of the defector Edward Snowden, Denmark has done a smart thing and let its foreign intelligence service get ahead of the Snowden...
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Forever “Munich”
Here we go again. American pundits of the neocon variety are denouncing the new Iranian nuclear deal as “another Munich” if not actually “worse than Munich.” Every few years, American op-ed writers of a certain ideological predilection – often neocon, sometimes...
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Reforming NSA from the top
That the National Security Agency needs reform in the aftermath of the politically disastrous Snowden Operation seems unquestionable. As I’ve laid out in my open letter to my former employer, NSA needs to build trust with the American public, and...
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On Snowden and Coincidences
I regularly get asked, often by soi disant journalists online, if I have “evidence” that Edward Snowden is under Kremlin control. To me – or to anyone familiar with counterintelligence or Russia, or both – that question is a sign...
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Snowden’s Thunder Down Under
In recent days, the international propaganda operation fueled by classified documents stolen by Edward Snowden has taken aim at Australia, which is a longstanding member of the Anglosphere’s “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance. Allegations that the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), the...
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Moscow: “We’re World Champions!”
The last half-year has seen a remarkable and unprecedented rise in the foreign policy fortunes of Vladimir Putin, at the expense of the United States and some of its key allies. My colleague Tom Nichols and I explained how President...
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The Guardian really needs to stop lying …
As The Guardian has taken center stage in the Snowden drama, serving as the English-language conduit of choice for publishing classified information about the National Security Agency and its partners that was stolen by Edward Snowden, it’s taken heat from...
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Syria’s Jihad Reaches Europe
Over the last two years, as Syria’s civil war has metastasized into a multi-sided fratricidal nightmare, the role of foreign fighters has grown increasingly troubling. Throughout the history of what Westerners loosely term Al-Qa’ida, foreigners who “join the caravan” and...
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Head for the sound of the guns ….
In all the discussion in recent months about Edward Snowden, intelligence, and NSA – blog posts, op-eds, media spots galore – it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that I’m actually a historian. I’ve talked abut Eddie so much...