Trump’s national security coup cuts military and spies out of big decisions This weekend the mainstream media went bananas over President Trump’s executive order on immigration. Seemingly every bien-pensant in the United States and far beyond went on social media...
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The White House Just Charted a Dangerous Course with NSC Machinations
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President Trump’s First Foreign Policy Crisis: Balkan War Drums Beat Again
Vladimir Putin views Western intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo as an affront to the Slavic Orthodox world—and he plans on revenge In the decade-and-a-half of war in far-flung places since the 9/11 attacks on our country, it’s easy to forget...
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Trump Disrupts the Western Spy Alliance
Our new president’s rumored Kremlin ties are panicking our espionage partners For three-quarters of a century it’s ranked among the world’s most important secrets. The American-led global spy alliance, born in the early years of the Second World War, is...
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Spy Clouds Hang Over Trump’s Inauguration
Trump is about to enter the White House with multiple fronts in an ongoing skirmish with American intelligence—what happens next? Tomorrow Donald J. Trump will become our 45th president, an event heralded by his supporters as a big step towards...
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Donald Trump Addresses Dossier’s Pedestrian Claims
Putin and his spies have no need for clandestine meetings in Central European capitals Just 10 days before his inauguration as our 45th president, Donald Trump’s nascent administration has been turned upside down by new accusations of secret Russian machinations...
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Monica Crowley’s Remarkably Flagrant Literary Theft Couldn’t Be an Accident
President-elect Trump may want to reconsider hiring a known plagiarist to serve in his White House Plagiarism—that is, the intentional lifting of others’ words and passing them off as your own—is something that gets writers and academics excited but seldom...
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Donald Trump Hosts the Premier Spy Event of the Season
Clapper, Comey, Brennan and Rogers walk into a room… Today, while the rest of Manhattan was getting lunch, Donald Trump received an intelligence briefing from our nation’s top spies. America’s espionage leadership made the pilgrimage to Trump Tower to give the president-elect their...
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Donald Trump’s Soft Spot for Russia Could Be His Political Undoing
President-elect may soon learn that you can’t fool all the people, all the time Three weeks ago, I counseled President-elect Donald Trump that going to war against the spies is never a good idea in Washington. Our Intelligence Community knows lots...