Ever since Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as president 13 months ago, with his White House shrouded in a fog over its murky Russia ties from day one, Fridays have been the day that big …
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Jeremy Corbyn Was a Communist Spy
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been a controversial player in British politics for decades. Back in the 1980s, when the anti-nuclear cause was at its peak, his strong left-wing views placed him in the …
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American Spies Get Fooled by the Kremlin Again
The National Security Agency has had a rough half-decade. Beginning with Edward’s Snowden unprecedented theft of classified information and subsequent defection to Moscow in the spring of 2013, NSA’s recent history resembles a tale of …
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The McLaughlin Group (11 February 2018)
This past weekend I appeared on the reborn McLaughlin Group, the iconic political chat show which was a perennial favorite for three decades until the passing of its founder, John McLaughlin, in 2016. The show …
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Social Media Is Helping Putin Kill Our Democracy
There are few more important issues confronting the West today than what to do about social media companies, which thanks to their ubiquity possess vast riches and daunting influence over our democracies. Indeed, their opinion-shaping …
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Team Trump Just Blew Its Cover
In a recent column I noted how President Donald Trump seemingly can bend time in a near-supernatural fashion. Our commander-in-chief’s “fine-honed ability to make days seem like weeks and weeks seem like months, even years,” …
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Dutch Report Reveals Obama Administration Knew About Russian Hacking in Real Time
For all its management and security shortcomings, the National Security Agency remains the world’s most important spy service. Its signals intelligence reach is truly global, and its highly classified SIGINT, year in and year out, …
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Solving the CIA’s Mass Murder Mystery
In recent years I’ve criticized the National Security Agency, my former employer, for mismanagement and repeated failures. I’ve taken NSA to task for flawed leadership leading to low morale, and above all a habitual ignoring …
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It’s Time to Make Twitter Better
I joined Twitter five-and-a-half years ago, in the summer of 2012, and immediately found it a heady experience. Here was a place of free expression, where experts and average people could mingle and discuss issues …
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Mysterious Balkan Assassination Threatens Regional Peace
The always narrow and winding path to peace in Southeastern Europe hit a major obstruction this morning with the murder of Oliver Ivanović, the leader of the Serbs of Kosovo, who was gunned down in …