CIA

I was tasked with helping to develop and manage a military aid program to Yemen that had increased dramatically in response to the rise of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

In a campaign speech, Donald Trump talked about his strategy for dealing with ISIS by saying, “I would bomb the shit out of them. I would just bomb those suckers. I would blow up the pipes. I’d bomb the refineries; I would blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left.” While bombing ISIS’s financial […]

According to individuals with direct knowledge of Central Intelligence Agency operations within the agency’s Counterterrorism Center (CTC), Islamic State (IS, ISIS, Daesh) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his senior lieutenants are capable strategists. These ISIS leaders, assess some counterterrorism officials, feel that the United States is reeling in the face of recent setbacks in Iraq […]

Al-Shabaab typically fight to the death, so we help them along the way.

ISIS presents a physical threat to America and its allies, and it is a destabilizing regional force in the Middle East. It cannot be ignored.

Early reports are indicating that British citizen Mohamed Emwazi, AKA Jihad John, has been killed by a US drone strike in the so-called Islamic State’s capital city of Raqqa, Syria.  Jihad John was used as an ISIS frontman, a sort of Cobra Commander figure, in propaganda films in which hostages such as John Foley were beheaded. […]

A new video has emerged showing the so-called New Syrian Army in action, kitted out with American weapons and equipment.  The train and equip program is a funded and run under the auspices of the CIA but the actual military training which the New Syrian Army receives is conducted by US Special Operations personnel.  The New […]

Nick Turse of Salon feigns moral outrage over the application of special operations forces, but can’t articulate his own vague viewpoints.

Wayne Simmons was probably a useful idiot, but one of his specialities was finding other useful idiots. Some of those tales are just too ticklish to tell.

The gist of the film “Sicario”: White America is the home of cops, soldiers, and the rule of law. Mexico is filled with scary brown people who sell drugs.

File this in the “rumor” category, but when it comes to reporting on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), rumor is often the currency of the realm.  According to some officers inside the CIA’s operations directorate, the National Clandestine Service (NCS), there are rumors floating around the Agency that the Director of […]

There is a whole generation of us for which 9-11 will always mean something momentous, terrible, and unifying.