Russian intelligence officers are a congenitally cagey breed. They are never more deceptive when appearing to divulge important truths. Their memoir accounts in particular are to be taken with grains, perhaps bags, of salt. One of my favorite memoirs from...
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Never Trust a Chekist
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Dodging Armageddon: The Third World War That Almost Was, 1950
Fifteen years ago I authored a piece for Cryptologic Quarterly, the National Security Agency’s in-house classified journal, about how close the world actually came to World War III in the early 1950s. Although this was little understood at the time,...
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Obama’s Collapsing War on the Islamic State
For the Obama administration, the news from the Middle East keeps going from bad to worse. Vladimir Putin’s power play, moving significant military forces into Syria to support his ailing client, Bashar al-Assad, caught the White House flat footed and...
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Obama’s Messy Iraq Intelligence Scandal
It’s happening again. A White House fumbling with the violent mess of Iraq finds itself surrounded by mounting accusations that it’s played dirty games with intelligence. A Pentagon facing charges that its analysts have skewed assessments on Iraq to tell...
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Who Really Won the Cold War?
A woman on the radio talks about revolution When it’s already passed her by. — Jesus Jones, 1991 The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party has sent shockwaves far beyond Britain. There has been disbelief that...
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John Schindler Won’t Back Down
[It’s rare of me to run something not written by yours truly but National Review has run a profile of me, which may be something that regular readers want to take a peek at.] It takes a quick eye to...
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Spies Don’t Buy Hillary’s Email Excuses
Yesterday I sat down with The Federalist’s Ben Domenech again to chat national security stuff. As they put it: The classified emails discovered on Hillary Clinton’s private server must not be taken lightly. NSA agent and analyst turned professor, John...
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Hillary’s Sources, Methods, and Lies
I’ve been doing my best to explain the complex intelligence realities behind Hillary Clinton’s on-going #EmailGate scandal for months now, and we’re still far from the end of this messy saga. Hillary’s take on what happened with her State Department...
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Will Hillary’s Emails Burn the White House?
Counterintelligence specialists suspect that the former Secretary of State wasn’t the only member of the Obama administration emailing secrets around. Hillary Clinton’s email problems are already causing headaches for her presidential campaign. But within American counterintelligence circles, there’s a mounting...
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What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton
It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hillary Clinton and her email security problems. While I believe that classified information should remain classified, this...