In his recent book “Rise and Kill First,” journalist Ronen Bergman lays bare one of the distinctions of Israeli’s intelligence: a program of targetted assassination that has no rival. While the Russian FSB has record of using poison and the American CIA uses drones neither is as prolific in killings its perceived foes as Israel’s...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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The Origins (and Dangers) of Cyberwar
From Michael Martelle at the National Security Archive, the untold story of a 1997 Pentagon exercise that showed how cyberwar could–and probably would–turn into kinetic war.
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Anatomy of a War Crime Averted
From a top secret Pentagon report seen by The Intercept: “a minute-by-minute account of a single airstrike [that] provides a small yet detailed window into the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen.”
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Former CIA Officer Makes the Case for Stripping Former Officials of their Security Clearances
In Consortium News, John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who went to jail for telling a reporter about the agency’s torture program, argues that security clearances for retired official has “abuse written all over it.” I think Trump is using the clearance issue as a means to get control the intelligence community, but Kiriakou’s questions are...
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On the Day He was Nominated, Brett Kavanaugh Ruled for the CIA and Against Me
ON A MONDAY AFTERNOON, on July 9, the D.C. Court of Appeals handed down a 2-1 decision against me and in favor of the CIA in a long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. At 4:20 p.m., Judges Brett Kavanaugh and Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee, filed a 14-page opinion with the clerk of the court in Washington. They ruled that the...