Domo Arigato, Mr. Interrogato: A.I. in the role of intelligence gathering

As advances in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and robotics have progressed at breakneck speed in recent years, it is no secret that law enforcement and the military are eager to find ways to take advantage of this. But the heavily armed drones capable of delivering death from above or the bomb-clearing robot used against IEDs and […]

American Public Is Not Entitled To See Full Senate Torture Report, Court Rules

An appeals court ruled on Friday that more than 6,000 pages of the so-called Senate torture report cannot be made public because they consist of congressional records that are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, which only covers federal agencies. The unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

Tricks on How to Spot a Spy

Reddit recently asked an interesting question, and I decided to expand on it here, at SOFREP. You’re in the CIA and you suspect a fellow agent to be a spy. They’re 25-35 and speak perfect English. What question do you ask to determine whether they grew up in the U.S.? Isaac Asimov once answered this questions […]

4 easy ways to interrogate your family like a CIA agent

Want someone to spill the beans? You’d better ditch the aggressive interrogation techniques. Coercing won’t get you anywhere,” Michael Floyd, a former CIA official, tells The Post. “You have to make them comfortable so they can be vulnerable and open up to you.” Floyd, co-author of “Get the Truth” (St. Martin’s Griffin; out now), shares […]

CIA Chief: I Would Refuse Trump’s Orders to Torture

Republican White House hopefuls are clashing with the government’s intelligence community over their support for using so-called enhanced interrogation practices against terror suspects. GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday slammed CIA Director John Brennan after Brennan said over the weekend that his agency will not use waterboarding or other harsh techniques, even if the […]

CIA Torture Report: Why Was It Released?

On December 9th, the U.S. Senate decided to declassify and release a detailed report on the findings of an investigation of the CIA’s “advanced interrogation techniques.” It was a report that went into detail about the interrogation techniques and treatments of detainees under CIA supervision in secret facilities. It goes on to describe the “atrocities” […]