SPECIAL: Matt Taibbi – Brennan, Comey, Clapper — And Other Secret Intelligence Leaders — Indictable for a Permanent Coup (Treason)?

We’re in a permanent coup Americans might soon wish they just waited to vote their way out of the Trump era EXTRACTS: My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than …

Ed Jewett: US Intelligence Community Admits Ineptitude with Open Source Information

 Intel Community Grapples With Key Open Source Intel “In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central …

American Intelligence Media: Do Newspapers Run Intelligence?

Michael McKibben: I can confidently say this: we have discovered the origins of modern intelligence and that origin is in the British Parliament and it is staffed with newspaper men and women from around the world and has been since the beginning.Newspapers run intelligence. That’s what we’ve discovered. It is just blowing our minds! It’s …

John Petersen: Adam Gopnik Is Intelligence Intelligent? Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?

Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth? The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate. The universal law of unintended consequences rules with a special ferocity in espionage and covert action, because pervasive secrecy rules out the small, …