"The Nord Stream Conspiray" is quite the doozy of a spy story. www.spytalk.co/p/revealed-a...
Revealed: Amazing Tales from Inside the Nord Stream Sabotage Plot
Our interview with Bojan Pancevski, author of "The Nord Stream Conspiracy."
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Michael Isikoff
@misikoff.bsky.social
Journalist, Author, Podcaster, Dog Walker
Among the declassified nuggets in the IC docs released by the WH Thursday night (and which went entirely unmentioned by Trump): the Chinese hacked the Biden campaign in 2020 and the Russians-once again-sought to influence the election in his favor. www.spytalk.co/p/a-few-inte...
A Few Intelligence Nuggets Emerge in Newly Released Documents
China stepped up espionage, hacked Biden campaign, but didn’t engage in 2020 election interference, despite Trump claims. (Russia did—again.)
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No, independent. Hyperbole aside, expanding the number of justices creates a precedent for endless politicization of the Court-& if you think the SC has lost legitimacy, what will you say tomorrow when-after rebuffing Trump on Jean Carroll-the court in all likelihood rejects birthright citizenship?
@counterprop.bsky.social · last mo.USSC has already lost all legitimacy. You insist that the number of justices must remain at 9 because if it is expanded above that number it might eventually grow to be over 500 justices and THEN it will lose legitimacy? Are you a Republican?
Expand the Court so when the Republicans retake control, as they inevitably will at some point, they expand it again? In due course, the Court will be larger than the Congress-- and will lose all legitimacy.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last mo.I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.
The new chief of staff at ODNI is a party-loving MAGA activist who, on her Instagram account, boasted of how she deployed Republican poll watchers "standing guard" at polling booths and vote counting stations across the country. The reaction inside ODNI: "OMG!" www.spytalk.co/p/party-time...
Party Time at the ODNI?
Christina Norton’s social media photos, now made private, show the new far-right ODNI chief of staff partying around DC and boasting about her GOP “election integrity” work
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Wielding a “sledgehammer,” acting DNI Pulte decimates the ranks of the non-partisan National Intelligence council, firing senior national intelligence officers for Russia-Ukraine, China, Europe and WMD. www.spytalk.co/p/pulte-dism...
Pulte Dismisses Top ODNI Experts on World’s Hot Spots
Purge Includes Many Senior Staff at the National Intelligence Council
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Former CENTCOM commander Gen. Joseph Votel tells @spytalkpodcast.bsky.social that military leaders should refuse a Trump order to bomb Iran "back to the Stone Ages." @spytalker.bsky.social @misikoff.bsky.social #KarenGreenberg #MSWMedia Listen & Follow: redcircle.com/shows/d7fabf...
Striking comments from the former chief of Centcom on Trump's threats to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. www.spytalk.co/p/former-cen...
Former CENTCOM Commander Advises Military Commanders to Refuse “Illegal” Orders
Retired Gen. Joseph Votel calls Trump’s threats to destroy Iranian civilization “shocking”
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Revealing conversation with ex-CIA Iran operative Reuel Marc Gerecht on @spytalker.bsky.social pod. Though a longtime advocate of regime change, he sees no end in sight. "What you're now looking at is a perpetual war," he says.
MSW Media@mswmedia.com · 5mo agoNew #SpyTalk 🕵🏼♀️ podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social & @misikoff.bsky.social #KarenGreenberg #MSWMedia Listen: redcircle.com/shows/d7fabf...
Slippery Slope Dept.: How an Obama-era drone memo gave legal cover for Trump to attack Iran. www.spytalk.co/p/an-imminen...
An 'Imminent' Iranian Threat? Really?
How an Orwellian Obama-era memo set a precedent for Trump’s Iran attack
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DNI Gabbard claimed she attended the FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots bec she oversees matters involving "foreign intelligence threats" to U.S. elections. Today, the affidavits supporting the FBI search were unsealed- and there is not a word about foreign meddling. www.spytalk.co/p/gabbards-c...
Gabbard’s Claim of “Foreign” Interference in Georgia Election Takes a Hit
Unsealed FBI affidavits make no mention of DNI’s claim rationalizing her involvement in Georgia election probe
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Supreme irony alert: On eve of US invasion of Iraq, Putin warned Bush about dangers of "regime change" and violating UN charter. "We should not substitute the rule of force for international law," he told Bush, per newly declassified transcript of 3/18/03 phone call. www.spytalk.co/p/time-machi...
Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change
Irony abounds in newly unearthed telephone call on eve of US invasion of Iraq that records Putin warning Bush about violating UN charter and “international law.”
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The White House mystery that nobody's talking about. Beneath the East Wing that Trump ordered destroyed was the PEOC, the bomb proof underground bunker to shelter POTUS & other senior officials in case of enemy attack. What's become of it? www.spytalk.co/p/new-clues-...
New Clues Emerge on White House Bunker Mystery
DOJ lawyers cite “substantial security” issues relating to the destruction of the East Wing
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When asked about FBI testimony calling Antifa the "most immediate violent threat we're facing," a former senior bureau official who worked counter-terrorism was flabbergasted. "Are you f--ing kidding me, that's absurd," the ex-official said. www.spytalk.co/p/reinventin...
Reinventing the Antifa Terror Threat
Experts shake their heads at FBI official’s testimony
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As U.S. officials learned to their dismay in Iraq, "it’s one thing to get rid of a nasty dictator. It’s quite another to plan for what comes next— the proverbial day after." www.spytalk.co/p/a-2019-us-...
A 2019 US War Game on Venezuela Forecast Chaos After Maduro’s Downfall
Drug cartels, anti-US rebels would fill leadership void, Pentagon study predicted
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Inside the bureau, there is “across the board outrage” over Patel’s use of FBI aircraft for fun and pleasure, said O’Leary. “At the end of the day, it’s theft of government resources. I mean, people have been thrown out of the bureau for this.” www.spytalk.co/p/kash-patel...
Kash Patel Wouldn't Be the First FBI Boss to Go Down By Turning His Official Plane Into a Private Jet
Investigative reporter Ron Kessler recounts how another FBI boss's term was short circuited by his personal use of the bureau's executive jet.
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Today's Washington Post editorial vigorously defending the destruction of the East Wing to build a new ballroom somehow failed to mention this
"The case itself has become a legal fiasco, spanning generations-a real life modern day version of Dickens’ Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Bleak House:Judges come and go, prosecutors and defense lawyers rotate in and out, the families of the 9/11 victims grow old and die." www.spytalk.co/p/revealed-h...
Revealed: How the FBI Helped Foul Guantánamo 9/11 Cases
New book details how FBI agents fed questions to CIA interrogators from outside black site torture chambers, nullifying later ‘clean’ statements
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Just to be clear, there is a video of Tom Homan taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen seeking ICE contracts, per this bombshell report by @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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Nearly 40 years later, an Iran-contra couple reunites in a "secret" ceremony in Virginia. www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: An Iran-Contra Romance
Oliver North and Fawn Hall are wed in a “secret” ceremony in rural Virginia
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With another 9/11 anniversary next week, this was quite the development on the legal front. www.spytalk.co/p/case-of-sa...
Case of Saudi Ties to 9/11 Hijackers Gets New Life
Court ruling opens door to more discovery in 9/11 family suits against kingdom
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"I don't like using 702 as a negotiating tool, but in the minority, it's kind of one of the cards I have to play," @jahimes.bsky.social tells the @spytalker.bsky.social podcast. www.spytalk.co/p/top-house-...
Top House Intel Democrat Sends Gabbard a Warning
Rep. Jim Himes gets DNI’s attention with reminder she’ll need his help to renew controversial surveillance bill
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"It was an astonishing, even bone-chilling cliam, one that certainly deserved such prominent placement and implicit endorsement by The Post- had it been true. But it was entirely false." www.spytalk.co/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Runs Two Corrections on its CIA-JFK Story—And Still Doesn't Get it Right
The capital’s paper of record only partially claws back a conspiracy monger’s baseless allegations of CIA "involvement" in the murder of President Kennedy.
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"I wonder why she's still there," Gregory Treverton, ex-chair of NIC, says about DNI Tulsi Gabbard. "She's plainly not part of the team & not trusted." Note: Story updated to reflect Senate intel chair Cotton's proposal to slash ODNI, exactly as Treverton suggested. www.spytalk.co/p/tulsi-gabb...
Tulsi Gabbard, Missing in Action
In a SpyTalk interview Gregory Treverton, former chair of the National Intelligence Council, questions why the DNI still has her job–and whether her office should be substantially reduced in size.
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It turns out there was a whole other side to the host of Firing Line. www.spytalk.co/p/william-f-...
William F. Buckley, Jr., CIA Spy
A new biography of the National Review founder explores his early role as an undercover CIA operative who later helped his one time agency boss Howard Hunt cover up Watergate
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Read all about it: Trump's former CIA Director Mike Pompeo sends me a "top secret" memo, strictly off the record, of course. www.spytalk.co/p/former-tru...
Former Trump CIA Director’s ‘Top Secret’ Memo—for Campaign Cash
Mike Pompeo’s pitch is just a glaring case of ex-intel officials getting involved in politics
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Fascinating talk w/ @jahimes.bsky.social on the "flying white elephant" gift from Qatar, the distortions of intel by Gabbard and why her firing of the 2 top intel officials so chilling, reviving the ghost of the Iraqi WMD fiasco. @spytalker.bsky.social www.spytalk.co/p/top-house-...
Top House Intel Dem predicts Qatari plane gift to Trump is “not gonna fly”
Rep. James Himes tells SpyTalk that the cost of de-bugging the 747 alone will be enough to stop the transfer.
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