On 17 October 2022, U.K. Minister of Defence, Ben Wallace, made a hurried, unscheduled trip to Washington, D.C. for an emergency meeting with the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin…
Intelligence
When It Comes To Ukraine, The CIA is a Clown Show
The CIA, thanks to Hollywood and fanboys, enjoys an undeserved reputation for competence in carrying out espionage and covert actions. I am fascinated by the delusional punditry offered by former…
Understanding Why Current CIA Analysis Generally is Useless
At risk of sounding like a cranky old man complaining about kids playing ball in the street in front of my house, I want to try to help the folks…
What Is Going On In Ukraine–Intel Ploy or Real Threat?
It is times like this that I wish I was sitting in front of my Top Secret terminal inside the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (aka SCIF) reading the latest intel…
Why It Is Critical to Understand What the Other “guy” Thinks
Let me start with a simple analogy. You are tooling down the road on a BMW S1000RR “crotch rocket” at 100 miles per hour. You see Toyota sedan a couple…
Alleged Death of Al Qaeda’s Ayman Zwahiri in Afghanistan
Let me my reaction to the death of Zwahiri with this pithy comment–I don’t care. The alleged assassination of a 71 year old former fanatic who has not been involved…
Western Military Analysts, Including the CIA, Dazed and Confused
Are we witnessing the consequences of legalized marijuana causing contact highs among the intelligence community that surrounds Washington, DC? How else to explain the parade of political and military analysts…
Is U.S. Intelligence Really this Screwed UP?
The New York Times published a bewildering, disturbing story today on U.S. intelligence and the Ukraine–i.e., U.S. Lacks a Clear Picture of Ukraine’s War Strategy, Officials Say. But despite the…
The CIA–Dead Spy Stumbling
I entered on duty with the CIA in September 1985. I spent a year in the Career Trainee Program and then, in September 1986, took up my work as the…