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April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
A Short Course in the CIA’s Use of Torture
From What does it take to excite America’s moral nerve endings? Bombing kids with cluster bombs...
February 25, 2021February 25, 2021
‘The Dissident’ Unravels the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
A top official in Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), has been implicated...
February 8, 2021February 8, 2021
‘Special Ops’: A RAW Story in a New Format
There are almost as many cable series about intelligence agencies as there are intelligence agencies. There’s...
February 4, 2021February 4, 2021
The Unsolved Mystery of the ‘Havana Syndrome’
The non-profit National Security Archive in Washington has the latest on a mysterious malady that felled...
February 3, 2021February 3, 2021
China’s Top Spy is a Working Class Hero
SpyTalk on China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS in Chinese) Since its founding in 1983, the...
February 1, 2021February 1, 2021
Transparency and National Security: What News Editors Need to Tell Their Reporters
Dan Froomkin at PressWatch on journalism after January 6. The most important lesson of the Bush/Cheney...
January 18, 2021January 18, 2021
Can U.S. Spy Agencies Stop White Power Violence?
In the aftermath of the failed Jan. 6 coup, people are calling for the creation of...
January 8, 2021January 8, 2021
How the Insurrectionists Breached the Capitol
January 8, 2021February 1, 2021
In the Face of the Right-Wing Threat, an Epic US Intelligence Failure
The failed coup of January 6, writes journalist Joe Conason, “illuminated the national landscape like a...
January 5, 2021January 6, 2021
Former U.S. Defense Secretaries Warn Against a Military Coup
The statement, published in the Washington Post, is a symptom of America’s imperiled democracy. Ten former...
December 21, 2020December 21, 2020
RIP: Jerrold Post, CIA Profiler Who Said Trump Was a ‘Malignant Narcissist’
From Peter Eisner at SpyTalk. A veteran Washington reporter, Eisner interviewed Post for his podcast (with...
