Draining the swamp has a ways to go in the intelligence community. A “Sense of Community Memorandum” prepared by a group of academic analysts from the federal government’s dozen or so security services downplays connections between Venezuela’s Maduro regime and…
The arrogance never ceases to amaze me. Back there in the late 1980s, I departed the Reagan White House as the Reagan era was ending. I had a security clearance — and I never thought twice about trying to maintain…
In his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, former president Trump said that the biggest mistake of his first term was choosing “bad” and “disloyal” people to be part of his administration. Some of those he lumps into that category were…
America’s intelligence agencies have been politicized to such an extent by left-wing ideologues in recent years that they have been transformed from respected defenders of American national security interests into a leftist police state bureaucracy. This is the basic premise…
The success of a political thriller in print or film depends on something more than good writing — great timing. Take one of best screen thrillers of all time, Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sidney Pollack. Robert Redford…
WASHINGTON — Nineteen Republicans joined House Democrats on Wednesday to defeat a measure to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the law that enables the federal government to spy on foreigners abroad. The procedural rule was blocked…
We’ve known for a while that the CIA and FBI have gone rogue: They spy on American citizens and both institutions are infected by woke groupthink. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, Mike Waller, a senior analyst for strategy at the…
In the current discourse surrounding the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), a prevailing narrative has emerged, as highlighted in a recent Politico article, that mistakenly warns of a future Trump administration’s destruction of the IC as we know it. This perspective…
Whistleblower and U.S. Air Force Major David Grusch testified in a congressional hearing last week about an alleged government program to find and reverse-engineer downed UFOs. According to Grusch, whose credentials include time in Air Force Intelligence as well as…