From Just Security blog comes a warning. As people get sicker, democracy is getting weaker. Long before this pandemic erupted, a multi-year wave of governments cracking down on dissent, flouting international norms, and backtracking from cooperative alliances was disheartening. But now, at a moment when we need a coordinated and transparent global response, the full...
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White Supremacists Look to Weaponize COVID-19
From the Cipher Brief In late February, the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service circulated an intelligence briefing to state and local law enforcement agencies which highlighted that white supremacists had discussed the possibility of using coronavirus as a bioweapon to be directed against its enemies, to include the FBI and non-white communities. Interest...
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Why Did the CIA Wiretap My Father, Journalist Paul Scott?
This true story comes from the Annapolis (Md.) Gazette. My father Paul Scott was a nationally syndicated reporter whose column appeared in 300 newspapers from the 1950s-1970s. He and his partner Robert Allen were illegally wiretapped by the CIA for three months in 1963. The CIA acknowledged this activity in the publication of its Family...
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Deputy Saudi Intelligence Chief Indicted for Khashoggi Assassination
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a friend of the Trump White House and a business partner with Jared Kushner. He deploys the Saudi spy service, known as the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) to suppress critics at home and, Turkish prosecutors say, to assassinate them abroad. Turkish officials have indicted 18 men in connection...
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Counterterrorism: A Woman’s Game
From The Interpreter, an Australian blog about international politics. two recently published books on counterterrorism, intelligence, and national security fly in the face of the notion that counterterrorism and national security is a man’s game and show that when it comes to gender and counterterrorism, there is much more than meets the eye. The first...