Trump Escalates Feud With Former CIA Chief Brennan
Four questions on security clearances and their value in Washington.
View ArticleThe Real Reasons Trump Was Wrong to Revoke Brennan’s Clearance
The president is destroying national security norms. Former officials like me need to speak up.
View ArticleTrump Thinks He’s Helping the U.S.-Saudi Relationship. He’s Hurting It.
By avoiding a credible investigation into Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, dismissing CIA findings, and failing to take advantage of his negotiating leverage, the American president has imperiled the future...
View ArticleThe China Syndrome
On the podcast: A former CIA analyst on Beijing’s interference in the affairs of other countries.
View Article‘Let’s Kill This Baby in the Crib’
That’s what the CIA said when it had Osama bin Laden in its sights after 9/11. Instead, America veered off into Iraq, and the result is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who appeared in a new video this week.
View ArticleBeijing Blames Foreigners When Hong Kongers March
Belief in foreign spies is projection about the Party's own overseas activities.
View ArticleBeijing’s Paranoia Sees the CIA Under Every Rock
Chinese propagandists are throwing around wild allegations in Hong Kong—but the leadership may really believe them.
View ArticleDon’t Just Blame Washington for the 1953 Iran Coup
Declassified evidence shows that Iranians, including clerics, played a significant role in the events of Aug. 19, 1953—and that after an earlier failed coup attempt, the CIA was left in the dark.
View ArticleNo, Pete Buttigieg Is Not a CIA Asset
The agency’s history of bloody-handed bungling abroad has come back to haunt U.S. politics.
View ArticleCIA Recruitment Has Joined the Social Media Age
A new video tries to make spying for the United States attractive for today’s youth—but cuts some corners along the way.
View ArticleThis November, America’s Safety Is on the Ballot
Americans are already less safe because of growing distrust in their intelligence. Dangers will multiply without a change in political leadership.
View ArticleAnd the Top Contenders for Biden’s Cabinet Are…
Biden’s final picks could ultimately hinge on two runoff Senate races in Georgia, which will determine who controls the upper chamber.
View ArticleProgressives Target Biden Cabinet Picks
Left-wing groups want to ensure Biden doesn’t pick Michael Morrell, seen as linked to post-9/11 counterterrorism policies, as CIA director.
View ArticleUnder Burns, the CIA Gets a New Focus
Biden’s pick for the agency’s director shows that diplomacy is back.
View ArticleBiden Should Release the CIA Report on Jamal Khashoggi’s Killers
Trump has protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that he ordered the assassination of a U.S. resident. The new administration should...
View ArticleSecurity Brief: Pentagon Draws Up ‘Options’ for Striking Assad; Trump Expands...
Catch up on everything you need to know about a possible military strike against Assad, the expansion of the CIA’s shadowy drone mission against militants in Africa under Trump, and all the latest from...
View ArticleThe Global Financial System Is Dying in a London Courthouse
A legal battle between Russia and Ukraine is an unprecedented instance of war by other means—and an example that others will soon follow.
View ArticleCIA Lies Low, Waiting for Trump Storm to Pass
With Dan Coats’s job as director of national intelligence on the line, senior CIA officials avoid criticizing the president.
View ArticleTrump’s Ego Is Officially a Foreign Policy Crisis
Throughout American history, a lack of presidential empathy has triggered international calamity.
View ArticleHow to End the Special Relationship With Israel
The peace process died of natural causes. Washington’s most extraordinary alliance should too.
View ArticleBiden’s Pick for CIA Director Singles Out China as ‘Biggest Geopolitical Test’
Bill Burns, a veteran diplomat, will helm the spy agency in an era of renewed great-power competition.
View ArticleKhashoggi Report To Test U.S.-Saudi Ties
Although the details of the report are an open secret, its publication further signals a break with Riyadh.
View ArticleU.S. Officials Make Last-Minute Push to Get Afghan Spies Out Before Withdrawal
Intelligence assets who worked for the CIA now face deadly reprisals.
View ArticleWhat Really Happened to Dag Hammarskjold’s Plane
More than 60 years after the deaths of the U.N. chief and his team, the victims’ families believe the answer may lie in Washington’s and London’s archives.
View ArticleA Chance to Be on Right Side of History in Iran
Britain and the United States overthrew the country’s last democratic government. Supporting pro-democracy protesters is an opportunity for redemption.
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