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John Brennan

The CIA’s ‘Wake-Up Call’ for Obama on Russian Hacking Is Still Classified

The American people still don’t know some of the most significant details of Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election. Four years after the fact, the story is still redacted. The Washington Examiner extracted that revelation from the latest Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian intervention in U.S. elections. “The administration was not fully engaged until...

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Huawei

Is Huawei China’s version of Crypto AG?

The U.S. is stepping up pressure on allies to cut all ties with Huawei, the Chinese telecom that supplies equipment to digital networks around the world. Last month, British prime minister Boris Johnson spurned his soulmate President Trump and sided with his intelligence chiefs. He announced Britain would allowing Huawei equipment in less sensitive networks,...

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Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan’s ‘Deep State’ and the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto 

In a ten-part 2018 podcast, the BBC World Service investigated the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of a former prime minister who was seeking to become Pakistan’s first female leader. Instead a suicide bomber ended her life. A friend called it to my attention (HT/Jeffrey) and it is a compelling look at the possible...

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IDF

How the IDF’s Unit 8200 Feeds Israeli Cybersecurity Startups

One feature in the growth of “surveillance capitalism” is the boom in private intelligence companies, which offer the services of a secret intelligence agency to paying clients. The United States has spawned numerous private intelligence companies, including a firm called DREAD, run by Richard Clarke, a former top counterterrorism officials. The United Arab Emirates have...

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Lashana Lynch

Jamaica’s Lashana Lynch Becomes 007 in the Next James Bond Movie

Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service is diversifying, at least fictionally. Actress Lashana Lynch, whose parents are Jamaican, has a leading role in the next James Bond movie, due out in April. The British actress, who starred as pilot and proud single mother Maria Rambeau in “Captain Marvel,” is shaking and stirring up the Bond legacy as...