Christopher Steele's failings go far beyond dodgy Trump 'dossier'
Earlier this month, President Trump publicly called for the extradition of former British MI6 Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele, author of the infamous and now thoroughly debunked opposition...
View ArticleChina's Trojan horse real estate acquisition threatens America's power grid
My former CIA colleague Rep. Will Hurd, Texas Republican, recently issued a compelling warning about GH America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese Guanghui Industry Investment Group, which purchased...
View ArticleTrump's diplomatic triumph with Israel-UAE agreement applies 'maximum...
Earlier this month Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they will normalize diplomatic ties and build a new bilateral relationship, a breakthrough which has the potential to recast the balance...
View ArticleSaudi's detention of innocent son and daughter of Saad al Jabri is a gross...
In July, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio joined three Democratic colleagues, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, in a letter to President Trump urging...
View ArticleHyper-partisan politics leaves America vulnerable to Russia and adversaries
While serving as chief of the CIA's Middle East Division, I regularly testified with my colleagues on Capitol Hill before the Senate and House intelligence committees.With the onset of the Arab Spring...
View ArticleDon't believe Putin's lies in Navalny poisoning
Last month, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from the Berlin hospital where he was treated for 32 days after being poisoned with the Soviet military-grade nerve agent Novichok...
View ArticleBeware of hostile regimes weaponizing Trump's COVID-19 battle
After being diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center, President Trump has, much to the relief of the U.S. public and our allies, returned to the White House.But even as...
View ArticleThoughts on swimming, cancer and the power of love
A couple of weeks ago, I caught up with Olympic gold medalist Kaitlin Sandeno, who was headed to Budapest to lead the D.C. Trident team in the second season of the International Swimming league. As...
View ArticleDon't sell short Trump breakthrough in Middle East
As we mark the end of a presidential campaign dominated by hyper-partisan debate on domestic issues, let’s not forget that just a couple of months ago the Trump administration brokered an unexpected...
View ArticleDealing with terrorism threat will dominate new administration's agenda
If there’s one thing we learned from the last two presidential election cycles, it’s that the United States has become more politically partisan and divided than at any time in its modern history....
View ArticleAmericans can trust intelligence pros to support peaceful transfer of...
I was serving in Eastern Europe when no clear winner emerged in the presidential election on the night of Nov. 7, 2000.Republican George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore by the slimmest of margins,...
View ArticleNot so fast on rejoining a badly flawed Iran deal, Mr. Biden
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on a strategy of dealing with the most challenging policy issues by building consensus at home and building coalitions abroad, but his stated aim to embrace the...
View ArticleRussian cyber attack underscores need for elected officials to unite against...
A former CIA mentor of mine used to say intelligence failures are not like fine wine getting better with age.The purpose of intelligence is to detect threats "left of boom" so they can be preempted...
View ArticleLessons to be learned from Eric Swalwell's brush with Chinese espionage
Eric Swalwell was reportedly "shocked" when the FBI informed him in 2015 that Christine Fang, a Chinese national who first met him in 2012, was a suspected spy.The California Democrat, now a four-term...
View ArticleKim Jong-un's threat to bring U.S. 'to its knees' heightens Biden's challenges
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un resurfaced last week at the eighth Congress of his ruling Workers’ Party, where he admitted “almost all sectors” of his country’s economy had fallen short of their...
View ArticleU.S. Capitol riots: Learning lessons from intelligence failures
When I served as an associate professor at the Army Command General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, fresh from a posting in the Middle East war zone, I began my lectures on intelligence with a deep...
View ArticleVladimir Putin faces serious threat from social media master Alexei Navalny
Having served in the KGB and as director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), President Vladimir Putin is well versed in cloak-and-dagger espionage. Mr. Putin also holds a black belt in judo,...
View ArticleLearning from the espionage malpractice behind the Steele dossier
Recently declassified notes of an FBI meeting in 2017 with former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his Orbis Business Intelligence partner Christopher Burrows add to the growing mountain of...
View Article'Recalibrate' the Saudi relationship, but don't wreck it
The Biden administration has announced the U.S. bilateral relationship with Saudi Arabia is undergoing a “recalibration.” It’s just not clear exactly what that means for one of this country’s most...
View ArticleThe Pentagon needs to become a smarter shopper
China and Russia are challenging America’s high-tech dominance. The goal: not just to contest but to achieve superiority in every fighting domain, including air, land, space, sea and cyberspace.Focused...
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