Minerva @ Midnight: oral history of the bin Laden raid demonstrates the smallness of previous guy
Politico constructed an oral history of the bin Laden raid and it’s worth the read to get a sense as one can from on oral...
“…it's time to end America's longest war*”
All US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 9/11/2021, ignoring the 1 May deadline set by previous guy. 2,500 troops remain. *“Wars with Native...
GITMO's camp 7 fails… prisoners moved, because it's still a thing
The jewel of the US prison-industrial-complex, GITMO still has 40 prisoners. Austerity comes to pseudo ‘black-site’. "Washington: A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention centre...
Has the US raised “a stink” about North Korea because it “gave off a powder smell”
North Korea is starting to test its relationship with the Biden administration. One of the few concessions that North Korea got from Trump aside from his...
As with life, the illustrations of it are always problematic representations
Likely the RWNJ social media site Gab was constantly under FBI surveillance even before 6 January, but for some reason it wishes to make itself...
Is the F-35 another Bradley Fighting Vehicle or an M-16
A Swiss Navy Knife. A new article in Forbes about the failure of the F-35 aircraft system in terms of building a Ferrari points us...
Donald J. Trump: Russian intelligence's 'confidential contact' for 40 years
It seems clear that Trump will continue to be a Russian asset, with the bonus of classified information transferred even beyond his presidency. A new...
bad optics for democracy continues, troop deployments in DC with authorization for 15,000 troops
Security measures in DC are about global and domestic consumption of the image of national security, lest the Russians and others think it’s like the troops...
Inauguration 2021 should be virtual with few attending for National Security.
It’s not fair and it’s especially not fair to VP Elect Harris who historically is the first woman and black woman to become Vice President. ...
all we need is a raccoon as a flag officer at Space Force
Darn Cyborgs and that genetic engineering, because branding and a cartoon POTUS*. xBREAKING: Vice President Mike Pence announces that uniformed members of the U.S. Space...
Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind new hacks of US Treasury and Commerce
“The hack is seen as so significant that a National Security Council meeting was held at the White House on Saturday over it, according to...
Trump's goading toward war or Iran's waiting for a new nuclear agreement after January
Trump really wants Iran to do something stupid before he leaves office, whether it’s a terrorist strike by proxies or something, something Revolutionary Guard attack....
'barricaded' Trump as classic counterintelligence risk: deeply in debt, angry at the U.S. government
Trump sells off his private helicopter after losing the election, so perhaps he’s cash-short, even as he’s running another grift, claiming he’d run again in...
Is it time to publicly disclose classified intelligence on the Senate floor?
There is Russian interference in the 2020 election, likely not at the scale of 2016, since they’ve garnered numerous financial and political advantages from their...
George Will voting for his first Democrat this November because it's also about national security
Considering his long-time support of the Chicago Cubs, Will was a typical conservative. He remains so. But this is something, something. Will predicts a Biden...
'Bounty-gate' won't go away, Trump still claims he knew nothing after being briefed
So many hoaxes, so much evidence. Money transfers, middle-men. The issue is less about the bounty since it likely is SOP, but more that Trump...
Trump's own Iran-Contra: blurting a Reaganesque “I didn't know anything” over 15 months
Russia Bounty (gate) now has some receipts as both parties in Congress have gotten their security briefings. Trump still maintains ignorance which is not hard...
Trump knew about #RussiaBounty, and the truth continues to emerge
Now more evidence emerges in the #RussiaBounty scandal and Trump simply looks to be even more negligent. He was briefed multiple times over the past...
No Schvitz: “the president himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States”
Trump’s phone calls with world leaders has probably been a source of much entertainment for the SIGINT community, considering how leaky his channels of communication...
National Security Officials Are Concerned About Trump's Phone Calls
New reporting from CNN: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials In hundreds of...
Trump golfed today because of NJ rain, retweeted White Power cry, and turned into Sgt. Schultz
So two DNI directors are lying, because it looks like Trump continues to do Russia’s bidding, however badly. And Trump lies because that’s the default...
North Korea blows up inter-Korean liaison office building. The Trump Bromance is over
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea, which may be more for domestic consumption, but also signifies the impotence of US-DPRK...
Bodacious Tata “If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any”
Third-ranking SecDef nominee General Tata, a Fox News regular, apparently believes that PBO was a Manchurian Candidate and Trump not a Kremlin puppet (CNN) Several...
Trump at West Point makes yet another speech and two-hands a glass of water
Rutherfraud B. Trump’s second term will doom any third Reconstruction, but before then, military ceremonies prop up his uses of the armed forces in political campaign...
Trump pulled troops out of Germany because Putin told him… what? why?
June 1st: Trump talks to Putin on the phone, again. June 5th: Trump announces he’s withdrawing one-third of US troops from Germany June 5th: Putin...
#CancelCulture may get John Bolton as his book comes out / CNN Poll: Biden 55% – 41% Trump
Bolton’s tell-all book will be out this month.... If he had any decency or sense of duty to the nation, he would have testified under...
who called the Code Red Pill: can you take the Truth for a ‘Tiny Little Short Period Of Time'
Time seems to be running out as all the George Floyd cops got charged and in Mark Esper’s apparent defection for responsibility, Trump now seems to be...
Hydroxy-Trump: “You’re just telling me about walking a dog and what did you say doing dishes?”
Makes one wonder about side-effects from taking hydroxychloroquine, now that Trump is admitting that he’s been taking it, pulling the prophylactic over his head. https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1262478523056353280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/missy_ryan/status/1262396550942199808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1262473430357741568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw...
Bay of (split) Wigs: what a service contract to perform a coup d'etat looks like
Jordan Goudreau’s Silvercorp is a US mercenary corporation based in Florida. Two of their American operatives were arrested in Venezuela. WaPo got a copy of a...
“I just present the talent” ringmaster Trump spends DoD money on public spectacles
Rather than doubling COVID-19 testing, spectacles worthy of Space Force. Because Stalin had no monopoly on cultural marxism in championing national unity. The Pentagon is...
Trump's planning a Venezuela invasion like the one he wanted in August 2017, because Manuel Noriega
Today Trump tried bait and switch, doing a briefing on the indictments and increased military operations against Venezuela. He used the pretext of a COVID-19...
Nunes denies he told Trump about House Intel briefing, threatens to sue WaPo
The ever-litigious Devin Nunes, fresh off losing a nuisance suit, tells Fox News he’s going to sue the Washington Post. Moo. The official, Shelby Pierson,...
only a psychopath threatens to bomb 52 places in your country, then orders you not to kill anyone
Because “enemies of the people” like the press should roam free. And even the US Secretary of Defense knows nothing about the “four embassies” supposedly...
the Mike Pompitous of hate and Trump is still … #ImpeachedForLife
The disinformation continues as a new week will bring perhaps that impeachment trial, even if some of us might want the GOP to sweat a...
“operator error” but what if nine other planes weren't fired on before Ukraine flight 752
Six of nine earlier flights were in the same flight path prior to the decision to shoot at least one Tor missile at Ukraine International...
Trump's press flak proves again that he's an idiot: Hogan “Hero” Gidley
As Trump now claims there were four rather than one embassy under imminent attack, the Trump press disinformation operation continues. Hogan Gidley was perhaps bored...
War Powers vote: 224 to 194
xBREAKING: The House passed a war powers resolution that limits President Trump's ability to wage war in Iran. It blocks U.S. military force against Iran...
WH briefing: “sophomoric and utterly unconvincing” about reasons for assassinating Suleimani
Pompeo, Esper, Milley, and Haspel did the classified briefing to the House and are now making the same presentation to the Senate. Responses broke along...
Slurs and slurring by Individual-1, our IMPOTUS*
Trump reiterated yet another lie about “the previous administration” funding last night’s missile strike. The JCPOA released Iran’s money held since 1980. Trump’s withdrawal from...
All is well! “You can't remove me with an impeachment trial, I'm (still) the Commander-in-Chief”
The dog wagged once. Did the WH dodge a ballistic missile since apparently there were no casualties in the several Iranian missile strikes in Iraq....
It begins, Iranian missile attack on Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq
Two US military bases confirmed hit by at least 10 Iranian short-range ballistic missiles at this time. Irbil and Al-Asad bases hit. No casualties reported...
Donald Trump fails the Caroline Test of “imminent attack” because inaction was risky
One person’s target of opportunity is another’s “threat of imminent attack”. https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1213868367800655872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The terms "anticipatory self-defense", "preemptive self-defense" and "preemption" traditionally refers to a state's...
Trumpian military end-games before the November election are about nukes
Threats against 52 Iranian “cultural sites” are more Trumpian gaslighting and a projection of hope that Iran will reciprocate by attacking the US in a...
Trump threatens war while at the golf course
Over sixty hours of golf over the past two weeks. His ‘head’ is worth less than his federal golf expenses, but enough to buy a...
What might next happen if an Iran invasion moves forward
Casus Belli arguments will emerge and they will be conditioned by disinformation of a sort to which we have been accustomed by the relentless falsehoods...
Trump, Cultural Tankie, now goads Iran into a major terror attack on the USA, because regime change
Trump for Shah. Because assassinating Suliemani is just not provocative enough, Trump is following a “strategy” intended to achieve a consequence-free objective by goading Iran...
Will Iran help Trump get re-elected because that would do the worst possible damage to the US
Keeping Trump in power might be the best Iranian revenge for the assassination of Qasem Suliemani. One view could be that Trump, as a natural...
Full Yellow Jacket: Jacob Wohl planning to enlist in a war against Iran
The best of the best: a budding Gung-Ho Psy-Ops recruit. https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1213215518502608902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Energetic but ineffectual young conservative operative Jacob Wohl is all-in on the prospect of war with...
POTUS may have also been triggered by Instagram memes rather than any dog-wagging
IMPOTUS has just made a statement attempting to justify the killing of Qasem Soleimani, and like other presidential fantasies about moving Seoul or invading Venezuela,...
Trump has triggered a state of war with Iran to save his re-election
As irrational as ever, Trump chose to assassinate another high-value target without thinking about strategic consequences. It could get worse. Trump chose to claim that...
