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  • Sean Hannity Takes Center Stage in Trump’s Kremlin Drama

    Posted by 20committee on April 17, 2018

    Yesterday’s drama at the U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan unfolded beyond the wildest dreams of countless observers. One week earlier, federal agents executed multiple raids on Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime attorney, fixer and factotum. Granted unusually broad remit, FBI...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, USG
  • The Spy Brief: IC 101 — Welcome to SpookWorld

    Posted by 20committee on April 9, 2018

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    The U.S. Intelligence Community is the best-funded and most complex collection of spy agencies on the planet. The “IC,” as the cool spy kids call it, is simply the catch-all term for America’s intelligence agencies, 16 of them in all....

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, History, The Spy Brief, USG
  • Mueller Finally Unmasked the Trump Campaign’s Secret Russian Operative

    Posted by 20committee on April 2, 2018

    Since its establishment a hundred years ago, at the dawn of Bolshevik rule, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Moscow’s General Staff—GRU for short—has been the shadowiest of the Kremlin’s spy agencies. While the KGB was known worldwide, its military counterpart...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, USG
  • Trump Gets Caught in His Own Web of Lies

    Posted by 20committee on February 18, 2018

    Ever since Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as president 13 months ago, with his White House shrouded in a fog over its murky Russia ties from day one, Fridays have been the day that big news gets dumped, per venerable...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, USG
  • American Spies Get Fooled by the Kremlin Again

    Posted by 20committee on February 13, 2018February 13, 2018

    The National Security Agency has had a rough half-decade. Beginning with Edward’s Snowden unprecedented theft of classified information and subsequent defection to Moscow in the spring of 2013, NSA’s recent history resembles a tale of seemingly unending woe. One security...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, USG
  • Social Media Is Helping Putin Kill Our Democracy

    Posted by 20committee on February 6, 2018

    There are few more important issues confronting the West today than what to do about social media companies, which thanks to their ubiquity possess vast riches and daunting influence over our democracies. Indeed, their opinion-shaping power is so great that...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, Strategy, USG
  • Team Trump Just Blew Its Cover

    Posted by 20committee on February 1, 2018

    In a recent column I noted how President Donald Trump seemingly can bend time in a near-supernatural fashion. Our commander-in-chief’s “fine-honed ability to make days seem like weeks and weeks seem like months, even years,” I observed, has the remarkable...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, USG
  • Dutch Report Reveals Obama Administration Knew About Russian Hacking in Real Time

    Posted by 20committee on January 26, 2018

    For all its management and security shortcomings, the National Security Agency remains the world’s most important spy service. Its signals intelligence reach is truly global, and its highly classified SIGINT, year in and year out, accounts for something like 80...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, Strategy, USG
  • Solving the CIA’s Mass Murder Mystery

    Posted by 20committee on January 19, 2018

    In recent years I’ve criticized the National Security Agency, my former employer, for mismanagement and repeated failures. I’ve taken NSA to task for flawed leadership leading to low morale, and above all a habitual ignoring of counterintelligence that has led...

    Counterintelligence, Espionage, USG
  • Donald Trump’s Crazy Week of Crazy

    Posted by 20committee on January 13, 2018

    As Donald Trump approaches a year in the White House, one of his gifts that is too seldom acknowledged is his fine-honed ability to make days seem like weeks and weeks seem like months, even years. As president, he has...

    Espionage, USG
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