Michael Feinberg
@michael-feinberg.bsky.social
Lawfare Senior Editor - MS NOW National Security and Intelligence Analyst - Former FBI Special Agent
Absent a major change in policy, none of us will return to the Bureau. If you leave for more than two years, you’re required to redo the Academy. I’m quite sure that my wife, son, and my then-fifty-year-old body will not agree to that.
Common Sense Only@commonsenseonly.bsky.social · last wk.Can I ask you an unrelated question around your prof calling, sir. Come '29 how many of the good folks that donny got rid of at the FBI, in the DOJ, etc etc do you think will come back to clean up the mess?
I recorded a podcast this very morning in which I proclaimed that Gary Oldman is my favorite George Smiley. I thought that the estate of Sir Alec Guinness might come after me, but now I apparently have to worry about "Succession" fans, too.
Matthew Macfadyen and Charlie Hunnam revealed in first-look images from Legacy Of Spies
Filming has wrapped on the highly anticipated espionage thriller, which will launch exclusively on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK
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I’ll be on MS NOW during the 11:00 hour to provide commentary on Jack Smith’s testimony.
This, if anything, understates the case. Prior to Trump, the Deputy Director was always a capstone and final position in a decades-long career, spent in its entirety at the FBI.
Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d agoI know it’s hard to imagine but before Trump came on the scene and wrecked government folks in these roles didn’t jump ship after a year. They often were long time Bureau officials who served without media attention for years.
On a slightly more serious note, counterintelligence concerns only arise when one cares about one’s country; none of these people do.
Michael Feinberg@michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 5d agoCounterpoint: Patel is an idiot.
Hell is empty and the devils are all here.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 5d agothat’s a lot of flowers at alina habba’s wedding
My thoughts be fucking bloody, or nothing worth.
Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 5d agoOk don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel
Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ...
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He’s one of the greatest authors to reread as one ages; his insights and lamentations hit harder with every passing decade.
The Paris Review@parisreview.bsky.social · last wk.“There are moments, as the poet said, when the blind captain dreams of the sea.” —James Salter buff.ly/q3RVlAL
@nickharkaway.com was kind enough to let me read this in galley a month ago, and I’d unhesitatingly recommend it; it’s probably the best spy fiction I’ve read since, well, his last foray into the world of George Smiley.
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last wk.My relentless assault on your good nature and your Autumn/Winter shopping list is beginning... Bookshop.org is offering a 20% discount on pre-orders of The Taper Man until 27th of this month (code below). Get 'em while they're hot!
Approaching fifty, having lost one’s professional calling and having gained one’s first child, is an opportune time to find meaning in a frivolous and idiosyncratic hobby: I think I need to get into Japanese denim.
Today, on national television, I called the FBI’s Washington Field Office the Bureau’s flagship office. It was the most passive-aggressive thing I’ve ever done, for those who will understand why.
Isn’t this not too far from the “Ender’s Game” plot?
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · last wk.Our Secretary of Warfighteriness has another great idea: Make all potential generals and admirals pass a war game. And the guy they picked to design it? A Marine Corps LTC (never close to being a general) who was courtmartialed for his unhinged rant after the Afghan withdrawal. Great work,guys!
Less than a year later, the Clash will release its debut album, and the musical world will begin to be set right after a long and horrid era.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2w ago#AT40 The year is 1976, and Alan Parson and Rick Dees are on the same chart
On Lawfare Daily, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social was joined by @juliacurlee.bsky.social and @johnsipher.bsky.social about John Ratcliffe’s tenure as the Director of Central Intelligence and cultural changes in the intelligence community writ large. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
On Lawfare Daily, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social talked to @eileenguo.bsky.social about her research into whether the “censorship-industrial complex” was an actual entity or a pretextual justification to dismantle the government’s anti-disinformation apparatus. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
Regardless of the altruism, he’s certainly made sure that we’re not effective at, well, pretty much anything for which we rely upon a functioning government.
Few things influence us as much as the books we read as children, and maybe he just developed a Dr. Doolittle fetish.
My thoughts, along with others whose career paths changed because of 9/11, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the tragedy.
Lawfare Daily: Sept. 11, 2001, 25 Years Later
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Thank you for coming to my TED talk on "Better Living through Carlos E. Bun." Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get to rolling some numbers, rock and rolling, and getting my KISS records out.
Now we finally know the answer to the timeless lyrical question, "Whatever to all this season's losers of the year?"
I may have been inspired by some troglodyte complaining about my intonations, but I'm on a roll here.
Fast Times Damone Cheap Trick Scene
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No one has ever been ashamed to be associated with a film that waxes ecstatic about Cheap Trick.
Cheap Trick - Surrender (from Budokan!)
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Besides, anyone who knows me clearly understands that if I have an avatar in the extended Cameron Crowe universe, it’s one of the guys offering relationship advice outside of the Gas’n’Sip in “Say Anything.”
No one’s forcing you to listen to me. But since you have strong feelings on the matter, I will certainly help you broadcast them.
For those who’ve asked where one can be purchased…
Canada is Not For Sale
Canada is not for sale, but these hats are. Home of the Canada is Not For Sale line and the new Lake Ontario collection.
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Michael Feinberg@michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 3w agoLook what just arrived in the mail.
