Ever since Gina Haspel went full MAGA in cheering President Trump’s State of the Union speech in January, the CIA director has wisely avoided making headlines. But Haspel is making news among her peers in the government world of government contracting. According to Executive Mosaic, Haspel ranks high among the most popular executive leaders recognized...
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FBI Has ‘No Intel Indicating Antifa Involvement’ in DC Violence on May 31
From Ken Klippenstein, an intrepid reporter with good sources, in The Nation. The FBI report states that “based on CHS [Confidential Human Source] canvassing, open source/social media partner engagement, and liaison, FBI WFO has no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement/presence.” The statement followed a list of violent acts like throwing bricks at police and the discovery of...
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China’s ‘Entrepreneurial’ Approach to Espionage
Whereas U.S. intelligence agencies collect information for counterterrorism and military operations abroad, China’s spy services focus on obtaining intellectual property and implementing social controls. From a review of “Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer” on Cipher Brief. The chapter on economic espionage is the longest, and is enlightening both to the scale of Chinese activities,...
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Susan Rice is Wrong. Russian Disinformation Is Not a Factor
Those predictable voices–I’m think of former national security adviser Susan Rice- that blame Russia or claim “foreign actors” are a factor in the division of America are just plain wrong. “The scale and scope of domestic disinformation—created by Americans and targeting Americans—is far greater than anything a foreign adversary could possibly do to us. The...
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U.S. National Security Community Must Do Its Part to Fight Racial Injustice
The national security community has to address the national convulsion over police violence or else forfeit its credibility. So say two former U.S. officials in Foreign Policy (Editor’s note: paywall alert; I asked Foreign Policy to open up the piece; they have not responded.) The United States has a long history, beset by a sharp...