Sasha Ingber

National Security Correspondent at Scripps News

Founder + Intelligence Correspondent at HUMINT. Host @IntlSpyMuseum's SpyCast. Previously @NPR @NatGeo @Smithsonian @ScrippsNews. Debunked disinfo @StateDept.

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“The Wednesday Warning” with Ned Price & Sasha Ingber

2 days ago | steveschmidt.substack.com | Steve Schmidt |Sasha Ingber |Ned Price

Special thanks to of and , former senior State Department and CIA official, for joining tonight’s edition of “The Wednesday Warning” to discuss the Iranian situation. Sasha wrote a perfect summary of what we discussed, and I thank her for allowing me to share it with you below:We spoke after a leaked intelligence assessment, first reported by CNN, undermined the Trump administration’s assertions of categorical success in striking three nuclear facilities to stop Iran’s nuclear development.
Rumbles

2 months ago | steveschmidt.substack.com | Steve Schmidt |Sasha Ingber

There are 48 granite peaks in the presidential range of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Granite is a hard rock, and America’s presidents in the national mythology were men carved from granite. Their character was impermeable. Of course, the truth is always more complicated and nuanced. Ordinary people rise to become great leaders, and great leaders are ordinary people. Character is not to the manor born.
THE WEDNESDAY WARNING with Sasha Ingber of HUMINT

Mar 6, 2025 | steveschmidt.substack.com | Steve Schmidt |Sasha Ingber |Steven Beschloss

Thank you to the more than 3,000 people who joined the first edition of “The Wednesday Warning” with of . We covered a lot of territory on foreign intelligence, including secret Chinese police stations in New York City, what it means now that Trump has cut off intelligence with Ukraine, and how DOGE firings will create a recruiting opportunity for foreign adversaries. Join me next Wednesday, March 12 at 8 pm ET when I talk to of . I encourage you to subscribe to both of these.
Jerry of the day

Mar 5, 2025 | steveschmidt.substack.com | Steve Schmidt |Sasha Ingber

Thanks to the more than 10,000 people who joined my Substack Live stream of consciousness through Trump’s boring 100-minute address to Congress last night. I know many of you opted out — and I don’t blame you — so I tried to take a lighter approach to what it is was that we saw. I will be sharing a more serious reaction to Trump’s speech in a video commentary later today.
Ukrainians fear that US-Ukraine intelligence cooperation could diminish

Feb 22, 2025 | sashaingber.substack.com | Sasha Ingber

The intelligence cooperation between the United States and Ukraine is “unprecedentedly deep,” a Ukrainian official told me on the condition of anonymity. But just like U.S. military support, it too could diminish, numerous former senior, U.S. intelligence officers tell me. “There is a direct chain of command,” one said. “If the president says, ‘Share nothing else and give nothing else,’ it has the effect of a military order.
Exclusive: At the National Nuclear Security Administration, modernization, deterrence, nonproliferation, counterterrorism programs hit

Feb 16, 2025 | sashaingber.substack.com | Sasha Ingber

On Thursday afternoon, some 300 people at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) were informed that they were losing their jobs. On Friday, an armed drone hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. As headlines came out on both Chernobyl’s fleeting fire and the NNSA’s firings, so came letters rescinding termination to the agency’s probationary employees. But, to quote an old Facebook relationship status, it’s complicated.
The 23-year-old who infiltrated a North Korean laptop farm

Jan 26, 2025 | sashaingber.substack.com | Sasha Ingber

While the U.S. is entrenched in a litany of domestic disputes, North Korea is growing more dangerous. Aidan Raney got a rare glimpse into a scheme to fund their weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, from his home in Wisconsin. “I found myself using technology to escape,” Aidan tells me.
Trump's critics in the spy world welcome his administration's Havana Syndrome response

Dec 19, 2024 | sashaingber.substack.com | Sasha Ingber

Retired senior CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos has not shied away from airing his grievances about President-elect Donald Trump, set to return to the White House in a month. He has warned of a potential purge of intelligence officers, a reduction in intel sharing with foreign services, and the possibility that intelligence may be fabricated.
Who will Trump choose to lead the CIA?

Nov 11, 2024 | sashaingber.substack.com | Sasha Ingber

Names have been swirling around the halls of the CIA and among former administration officials. Who will President-elect Donald Trump choose to oversee the most prominent intelligence agency in the country? In March of 2023, he was still licking 2016 wounds.
The Americans helping Russia’s influence operations in the U.S.

Oct 30, 2024 | steveschmidt.substack.com | Sasha Ingber

In 2015, less than a year after Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine, I was working in the U.S. State Department, on a small team tasked with debunking Russia’s onslaught of disinformation. One day, I read an American man’s blog entry about how Russians had approached him, offering to pay him and to give him some ideas and articles.