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American intelligence
June 5, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Mike Johnson Puts Dumbest People You Know on Intel Committee
One of the new members of the House Intelligence Committee is currently suing the FBI.
April 1, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The U.S. Military Can Barely Protect Itself From the Coronavirus
Suicides, ship quarantines, confused commanders, and stranded families: The Pentagon’s war-weary ranks are fraying amid the pandemic.
February 12, 2020
Jefferson Morley
Is the CIA’s Director Going Full MAGA?
Gina Haspel is not a typical Trump toady, but recent moves suggest a dangerous dynamic between the runaway president and his spy agency.
November 20, 2019
Sam Adler-Bell
Why the Hell Did Democrats Just Extend the Patriot Act?
House leadership included the measure in a government funding bill—and even members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus went along with it.
November 8, 2019
Jefferson Morley
The “Deep State” Is a Political Party
As an impeachment crisis looms, CIA and FBI veterans are taking a troubling lead in opposing Trump at the ballot box.
January 11, 2017
Alex Shephard
The fight between Donald Trump and the intelligence community is getting very, very real.
January 9, 2017
Jeet Heer
James Comey Is Democrats’ Best Hope for Stopping Trump
The president-elect could use law enforcement to abuse civil rights.
January 9, 2013
Tim Weiner
Obama's Controversial CIA Pick Is the Best Man for the Job
September 23, 2011
Isaac Chotiner
Pakistani Leader Makes World's Silliest Denial
January 10, 2010
Martin Peretz
Clutching at Straws: The So-Called "Weakness" of Al Qaeda (Plus a Postscript)
January 1, 2010
Martin Peretz
No One Yet Has Said He's A Nutcake. But What Does "Isolated Extremist" Really Mean?
July 18, 2009
Martin Peretz
Richard A. Clarke, Ex-liberal Hero, And The Reality Of Counter-terrorist War
July 1, 2009
Martin Peretz
Narrative Dissonance
February 2, 2004
The New Republic Staff
Correspondence
June 30, 2003
Spencer Ackerman, John B. Judis
The First Casualty
The selling of the Iraq war.
June 24, 2002
Noam Scheiber
Finger Tip
August 23, 1969
L. Fletcher Prouty
Green Berets and the CIA

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