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FeaturedThe National Implications of Project 2025
Project 2025 seeks to reshape the U.S. government, raising concerns about its potential impact on intelligence, national security, and foreign relations. The project’s proposals, such as replacing career intelligence professionals with political appointees and reducing intelligence capabilities, risk politicizing intelligence, alienating allies, and creating security vulnerabilities. The initiative’s effects on diplomacy, domestic security, and global stability pose alarming risks that could compromise America’s security infrastructure.… Continue reading The National Implications of Project 2025
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FeaturedA Perfect Storm: Israeli Intelligence, Hamas, and Growing Tensions on American Soil
Israel’s intelligence services, renowned for their sophistication, faced a shocking failure when Hamas launched a coordinated attack on October 7, 2023. The attacks raised uncomfortable questions about the failure to detect the assault. The broader context of Israel’s intelligence failure includes structural gaps and a lack of coordination between agencies. The aftermath has also seen considerations of intelligence operations on American soil, with potential risks for U.S.-Israel relations.… Continue reading A Perfect Storm: Israeli Intelligence, Hamas, and Growing Tensions on American Soil
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FeaturedKeeping Extremism at a Distance
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s public conflict with Laura Loomer sheds light on strategic maneuvers rather than genuine rejection of extremist views. Greene’s history of conspiracy theory support, from QAnon to baseless election fraud claims, illuminates her hypocrisy in denouncing extremist rhetoric. From promoting Pizzagate to anti-vaccine sentiments, her pattern reveals a disconcerting normalization of misinformation.… Continue reading Keeping Extremism at a Distance
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FeaturedISIS’s Cyber Nightmare: How Misinformation and Hacktivists are Fueling Paranoia Among Jihadis
ISIS has instructed followers to use only official communication channels in response to spoof propaganda and cyberattacks. The Nashir News Agency, a key ISIS outlet, has been targeted by fake news and spoof versions of its newsletter, leading to paranoia and internal strife. Global efforts to disrupt ISIS propaganda include cyber campaigns by intelligence agencies and activists. Despite territorial losses, ISIS maintains a dangerous online presence, necessitating continued vigilance and innovative strategies to counter its evolving threat.… Continue reading ISIS’s Cyber Nightmare: How Misinformation and Hacktivists are Fueling Paranoia Among Jihadis
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FeaturedA Timeline of the New Assets
The Tenet Media Russian money scandal unravelled the covert ties between Russian interests and a U.S. media company, highlighting the vulnerability of media to foreign influence. This saga began with financial investments linked to Russian entities and escalated to a full-scale investigation involving governments, a terrorist attack, and the unmasking of RT’s control over media operations. The aftermath emphasized the need for transparency, scrutiny of funding sources, and global collaboration to counter foreign influence in media.… Continue reading A Timeline of the New Assets
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FeaturedUS and UK Intelligence Chiefs Embrace Generative AI for Enhanced Operations
CIA Director Bill Burns and MI6 Chief Richard Moore highlight the growing role of AI in intelligence operations, including the use of generative AI to manage data and enhance security. They emphasize the impact of technology on global security, particularly in countering Russian and Chinese AI advancements. Collaboration with innovative companies is key to maintaining a competitive edge.… Continue reading US and UK Intelligence Chiefs Embrace Generative AI for Enhanced Operations
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FeaturedAn Exodus of Defense
Why is the Pentagon Bleeding Top Officials? On December 16, the Defense Department’s senior advisor for international cooperation in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, announced her resignation from her position at the Pentagon. Ambassador Kaidanow, who assumed her current post in September of 2018, is… Read more
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FeaturedNo War is Civil
The NDAA and America’s Foreign Policy in Syria I cannot deny having a personal bias for the people of Syria. I’ve seen the wreckage first hand in a way I wish I could explain further. I’m probably responsible for 60% of the views of HBO’s Cries from Syria since its release in 2017. I’ve played… Read more
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FeaturedMichael Flynn’s Sentencing Date Set
The Fourth Victim of the Mueller Investigation Will Be Sentenced in January More than two years after former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn’s guilty plea, there is finally a date set for Flynn’s sentencing. On January 28, 2020, almost three years to the date after committing the crime for which he’s charged, Flynn will… Read more
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FeaturedChina and the CIA
Why is China Winning the War Against U.S. Intelligence? China is the world’s most populous country with a population of 1,420,062,000 citizens as of early 2019. The size of their population is dwarfed, however, by the size of their government. China is known to have an overreaching democratic dictatorship government, ruled by the communist party,… Read more
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FeaturedA Pattern of Attacks
Deep State Conspiracies and Trump’s On-Going Grudge Against the United States Intelligence Community And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. John 8:32 I’m not a religious person. I leave that sort of thing to the theologians. However, the quote above cannot be questioned as a positive biblical quote. This… Read more
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FeaturedRepublicans and the IG Report
Media Bias and the Review of “Four” (One) FISA Application(s) and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appreciates the OIG’s crucial independent oversight role and the thoroughness and professionalism your office brought to this work. The Report’s findings and recommendations represent constructive criticism that will make us… Read more
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FeaturedWhat Constitutes Election Interference?
How the GOP Fabricated a Conspiracy Theory to Counter an Actual Conspiracy “Foreign electoral interventions are attempts by governments, covertly or overtly, to influence elections in another country. There are many ways that nations have accomplished regime change abroad, and electoral intervention is only one of those methods.” This is the definition given by Wikipedia to define what constitutes election interference.… Read more
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FeaturedMoney in Politics, Climate Change, and Student Debt…
A Eulogy to Berkley Bedell If you’re wondering what the three topics in the title have in common, it’s not just the three topics on the list of every House and Senate Democrat this year; they were also the three most important matters for Berkley Bedell (D-IA) who passed away today after a stroke earlier… Read more
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FeaturedThe Articles’ Architect
How One of Trump’s First Appointees Set Impeachment in Motion Weeks before the whistle-blower’s complaint against Donald Trump’s now infamous Ukraine call became public, the complaint was reviewed by not only members of the CIA, but also by CIA general counsel, and Trump appointee, Courtney Simmons Elwood. Elwood, as well as other senior officials who… Read more
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