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Jay Clayton Flunked the Test
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You had to wait for it. It didn’t come until nearly two hours into the all-but-scripted hearing on Jay Clayton’s nomination to be the new boss of U.S. intelligence.
Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee did their par...
Does US Intelligence Matter Anymore?
The latest dreary news about the hollowing out of U.S. intelligence under the Trump administration came yesterday via The Steady State, an organization of some 400 former officials from the CIA, FBI, Department of State, Department of Defen...
SpyWeek: Trump Tries Again with Jay Clayton, Patel Ignites Graham Conspiracy Talk, FBI Probes Air Force One Leak
Also: Musical chairs at ODNI, CIA analysts' woes, bad Iran intel, Moscow's school for assassins, and more
Room at the Top: Jay Clayton, Trump’s on, off and on again pick to run U.S. intelligence, was already bound to face tough questioning...
Israelis Offer New Details on Joint Regime-Change Strategy and Mossad-CIA plan for Kurdish Invasion
Finger-pointing, scapegoating sour US-Israeli relations as Iran talks sputter
Soon after Israel’s 12-day air war against Iran last June culminated in the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, the Mossad secretly began plotting its next wa...
Left on a Jet Plane
I just had to get away.
I was vaccinated against Trump Derangement Syndrome long before he showed up on the Potomac. Nixon, Ford, the Bushes, Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq, Afghanistan—all had sanded off the edges of my rage over the years. Plu...
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Founding editor SpyTalk.co. Longtime natsec reporter. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, founding editor CQ/Homeland Security, dep foreign news editor UPI. Tips welcome via Signal 202-812-3034, or [email protected] and Twitter @talk_spy and @spytalker.
Michael Isikoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author who has reported for The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News and Yahoo News. He is now a contributing editor to SpyTalk.
Peter Eisner a, contributing editor to SpyTalk, is an award-winning reporter and author, formerly at The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Associated Press.
A veteran reporter, editor and foreign correspondent, Broder writes about defense and foreign policy from Washington.
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer who specialised in security and intelligence affairs. He is co-author of Spies Against Armageddon.
Future Security Fellow, New America. Author of "Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump" and "Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State."
Tomás Dinges covered the military and breaking news while at The Star-Ledger newspaper, and has published for a range of publications in the US and Chile. He was a fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University.
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