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A Pentagon Memo Called It an "Arms Race." That Was the Point.
On January 9 the Secretary of Defense signed a memorandum ordering the American military to become an “AI-first” fighting force. Six pages, addressed to senior Pentagon leadership, combatant commanders and defense agency directors, with a c...
Charlie McGonigal Is in Prison. Almost No One Else Is.
Donald Trump’s 2025 pardon of a man convicted of acting as an illegal agent of China did not just free one retired New York cop. It helped seal the record on how a compromised FBI counterintelligence chief, his politically connected ex‑girl...
Bribery Has Two Ends. Trump Holds Both.
In February, I reported in Byline Times that Trump’s pardon of former FBI counterintelligence agent Mark Rossini came six months after Isabela Herrera, daughter of bribery co-defendant Julio Herrera Velutini, completed $3.5 million in contr...
Reductio ad Duginum
In August, The Ideas Letter, an essay platform funded by Open Society Foundations, published a long piece by the political scientist Marlène Laruelle titled “In the Comfort of Apocalypse.” The premise does its own advertising.
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In my profession, practitioners are paid to betray their employers on a schedule.
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