Sometimes the problems facing intelligence agencies–and those who report on them–seem insoluble. For example, what caused U.S. diplomatic official to...
September 8, 2020September 23, 2020
Intelligence Findings on COVID19 Origins: Not Man-Made or Genetically Modified
“I will tell you, more and more, we’re hearing the story [that the new coronavirus emerged from a Wuhan lab,” President Trump...
September 6, 2020September 23, 2020
The Origins of the Ukraine Conspiracy Theory
It all began with Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager, now serving a seven-year prison sentence for bank fraud,...
August 12, 2020September 19, 2020
The Pro-Trump CIA Man: QAnon Madness and Upward Failure
Michael Scheuer is a pure product of the CIA. A career operations officer, he ran the first agency task force...
July 25, 2020September 23, 2020
How the Concept of a ‘Deep State’ Came to America via Turkey
In War on the Rocks, Ryan Gingeras, a historian of Turkish politics, traces the evolution and migration of the term...
July 6, 2020September 19, 2020
Could the Death of the National Security State be the Silver Lining of COVID-19?
[This article was first published in a wise magazine called Counterpunch. Subscribe here.] Could something good come from the catastrophe...
June 22, 2020September 23, 2020
Trump’s Trade Adviser Repeats Unsubstantiated COVID Theory
First it was former MI6 director Richard Dearlove espousing a theory about the origins of the COVID virus that has...
June 18, 2020September 19, 2020
Former MI6 Spymaster Claims Wuhan Lab ‘Accident’ Caused COVID. Virologists Disagree
Sir Richard Dearlove cited an “important” new study by British and Norwegian researchers which he thinks could “shift the debate.”...
May 20, 2020September 19, 2020
In Deep: The History Behind Trump’s War on the Intelligence Community
(This story first appeared in Counterpunch.) “There is no ‘deep state’—not in the conspiratorial way that Donald Trump uses the...
May 4, 2020September 23, 2020
Australia Intelligence Knocks Down Trump’s Wuhan Lab Virus Claim
Australia’s intelligence agency is saying the same thing U.S. intelligence agencies are saying: it is doubtful that the COVID19 virus...
April 28, 2020September 23, 2020
Celebrities Turbocharge the 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory
There are actually two different stories here. One is a real public health issue: the possible health hazards of 5G...
April 7, 2020September 19, 2020
Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op?
Not quite. But the CIA used modern art as Cold War propaganda against the Soviet Union in ways that were...
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