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2 weeks ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
IN THE FALL OF 1951, a new book scandalized one of the country’s most elite universities and made its brash young author, William F. Buckley, Jr., an instant celebrity.God and Man at Yale was Buckley’s audacious debut, a withering attack on his alma mater for supposedly indoctrinating its students with liberal nostrums taught by atheist professors who ridiculed Christianity. There were ferocious counter attacks from inside academia.
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3 weeks ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a new interview that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard should resign and her office subjected to oversight hearings over the efforts by her and her chief of staff to alter intelligence reports about the supposed connection between the Venezuelan government and a criminal gang operating in the United States.
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4 weeks ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
I can see that in the business trust is important, and being handed off makes things seem less safe. My mother's family was divided in two once the East Germans put up a wall. So, after the wall came down I visited relatives in a little village in the state of Thüringen near to the Czech border to meet my mother's aunt through marriage, cousin and his wife. I went with my maternal grandmother's brother, since this was his family that he left behind when he got out and they did not.
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4 weeks ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
In the fall of 2021, the CIA sent a highly unusual top secret cable to its officers around the globe. The agency had been plagued by compromises and sloppy tradecraft, resulting in serious setbacks in some overseas missions, the cable explained.
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1 month ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
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1 month ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
It was an email guaranteed to grab my attention. “A former CIA Director needs you to read this,” read the subject line. I hastily clicked it open, of course, and discovered, much to my surprise, I was being given “exclusive access” to a “secret memo.” A reporter’s dream, even if, as I was instructed, all this was being shared on a “strictly off the record” basis. Alas, the memo didn’t contain any national security secrets.
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1 month ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
A key House Democrat, voicing mounting frustrations within the U.S. intelligence community, decried President Trump’s plans to accept a $400 million jumbo jet from Qatar as a potential counter-intelligence nightmare and warned that the recent firing of two top officials was tantamount to “cutting the heart” out of professional officers and analysts. “Without any hesitation from a counterintelligence standpoint, from a strategic standpoint, this is a terrible, terrible idea, right?” said Rep.
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1 month ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
A newly declassified U.S. intelligence memo directly contradicts public comments by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about supposed links between the Venezuelan government and the Tren de Aragua criminal gang while undercutting positions the Trump administration has repeatedly taken in the courts to justify its mass deportation of gang members.
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2 months ago | 
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
It was barely two years ago when the International Criminal Court in The Hague took a step that many in the West thought they would never see: It issued a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a top official in his government. The charge: war crimes, specifically for the mass abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children.
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2 months ago | 
spytalk.co | Jeff Stein |Michael Isikoff
We’re back with another edition of The SpyTalk Week in Review podcast. Jeff Stein and Michael Isikoff discuss the current state of national security, focusing on the Trump administration's impact on the intelligence community, Russia's ongoing influence in American politics, and recent developments regarding Venezuela and Iran.
