Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands
Back in the day, Lauren Anderson would’ve been called a “rock-ribbed Republican.” That made her no different than virtually all her fellow FBI special agents in the era of Presidents Ronald Reagan,
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In late November 1968 I arrived in Saigon and a few days later walked through the looking glass of the U.S. military command’s intelligence headquarters in South Vietnam. There, in an airconditioned
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At the close of many an evening at the Episcopal church camp I attended in Rhode Island in the late 1950s, we gathered in a barn chapel for vespers, prayers of thanks for
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Bipartisanship is rare in Washington, to say the least. But there was unanimity here yesterday as Kimberly Cheatle tried to dodge and weave through sharp questioning from Democrats and Republicans alike about
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Little would change for U.S. intelligence should Kamala Harris win the Democratic nomination for president and prevail in the November elections. President Biden, wracked by plunging polls and mounting pressure from Democratic
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Maybe I re-visited too many World War Two movies and TV series around the 80th anniversary of D-Day last month, but one of the first things that came to mind while I
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In the summer of 1967 I spent hours roaming Baltimore looking for dead drop sites, practicing brush passes and learning how to chat up a stranger who might make a good spy.
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When I got back from Vietnam some 50-plus years ago, all I wanted to do was get on with my life. My experience in the war as an Army intelligence case officer
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On and on and on, it goes—the federal effort to bring disgraced former President Trump to justice for what, in cases involving many others less protected, has resulted in swift arrests and
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Reports out of Ukraine say that Marianna Budanova, the wife of Ukraine’s intelligence chief spy chief Kyrylo Budanov, has been hospitalized after being poisoned. “Unfortunately this is true,” a source in Ukraine’s Defense
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U.S. intelligence agencies let their attention wander away from Iran-backed terror groups in their pursuit of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and ISIS in Iraq over the past two decades, leaving them vulnerable
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For those of us who’ve long despised Benjamin Netanyahu for so many things, from his odious corruption to his opportunistic alliance with far right extremists (and many things in between), his brutal
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Stephen “Shorty” Menendez has a piece of advice for Israeli troops faced with clearing out Hamas tunnels in Gaza: Don’t. Don’t volunteer to go down there. You will never get over it.
More On an overcast and chilly late afternoon last February, CIA Director William Burns went to Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service to receive an award. After a few brief and typically gracious
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