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The Signal Scandal Is Bad. But Team Trump Is Making It Worse Mar. 27, 2025
SAN DIEGO — They say the cover-up can be worse than the crime. And in politics, the spin can d... Read More
When Presidents Kill Aug. 01, 2024
Sometime before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden secretly reaffirmed his ... Read More
House Speaker Johnson Plays Dangerous Game of Politics With Intelligence Agencies Jun. 19, 2024
Perhaps the entry on my resume I'm proudest of is my four years as counsel to the Senate Intelligenc... Read More
The CIA's Long and Dangerous History of Refusing To Answer Absurdly Obvious Questions Apr. 15, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The CIA is so known for its unabashed secrecy that, when it joined Twitter in 2014, its first tweet ... Read More
The CIA Wants More Power to Spy on Americans! Apr. 11, 2024
Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on al... Read More
A Great Man in Moscow Nov. 02, 2023
When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden for violation of the Espionag... Read More
Is the CIA in Your Underwear? Sep. 07, 2023
In a year, if a friend asks you if the CIA is in your underwear, you'd probably not take the questio... Read More
John Brennan, Enemy of the People May. 19, 2023
The just-released Durham report confirmed that the FBI not only failed to corroborate the Steele dos... Read More
Killing with Near Certainty Oct. 13, 2022
Last week, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed authority to kill p... Read More
Harriet Tubman Here to Stay at the CIA Sep. 14, 2022
A woman's bronze statue was just unveiled at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Virgini... Read More
Bloody Gina and Her Team of Torturers Jun. 09, 2022
Last week, at a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a... Read More
The Bill of Temporary Privileges May. 05, 2022
Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, the data-gathering and data-concealing arm of the ... Read More
CIA Spies and Their Collaborators Feb. 17, 2022
In the past month, this column has twice addressed the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence ... Read More
A Republic of Spies Jan. 13, 2022
Late last Friday, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned the American public ag... Read More
The Deep State and Its Tentacles Dec. 30, 2021
Two recent and unconnected revelations demonstrate that the deep state remains engaged, deceptive an... Read More
The Government Lies About Its Secrets Nov. 11, 2021
Recently, this column offered a critical analysis of the state secrets privilege. Last week, the gov... Read More
When Are Secrets Not Secret? Oct. 14, 2021
"Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead." — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Last... Read More
Let Abu Zubaydah Testify About the Dark Days of US Torture Oct. 11, 2021
Supreme Court justices appeared to agree on Wednesday that it's time for the longest-held U.S. detai... Read More
'No Time to Die': Daniel Craig's Final Bond Outing Is a Little Bit Droopy Oct. 01, 2021
One of the few people definitely having fun in "No Time to Die," the new Bond film, is Ana de Armas,... Read More
Preaching From the Gospel of Bob Woodward Sep. 17, 2021
The Federal Election Commission recently rejected a claim by the Republican National Committee and r... Read More
