What happened to our supposedly vaunted cybersecurity defenses against just this kind of reported attack? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Holding up the mirror to Dick Cheney’s legacy: Here lies Dick Cheney, Architect of the imperial presidency, Who claimed Nixon was wronged, Restored the unitary executive, Sanctioned torture and secret surveillance, Tricked a nation into war, And bent law and norms In the name of defending America.

Here is the full 2 plus hour live interview of me by James O'Keefe at O’Keefe Media Group in West Palm Beach, Florida. youtu.be/ju6BkG7eGKY?...

Superb piece on #EspionageAct weaponization & how “official channels for lawful #whistleblower disclosures are compromised or futile.” Discusses our clients #Snowden & Tom Drake (@witnessblower.net) www.justsecurity.org/122491/weapo...

Interviewed live in West Palm Beach, Florida by James O’Keefe of O’Keefe Media Group on his “My Price Is My Life” show. Discussed 8(a) contract fraud, my NSA whistleblowing, 9/11, the Constitution, our base human condition & future of America. Stream begins ~13:25. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRR...

Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: Law enforcement spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats, bolstering Trump's mass deportation frenzy, as revealed in intel documents we obtained and shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity   American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.   New piece:

After 11 years the full Emmy-nominated SILENCED doc now finally available — highlighting the ordeals of 3 national security whistleblowers, including Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake & John Kiriakou — detailing the extreme personal toll they each endured under Bush & Obama Admins. youtu.be/J7UXdr1l1lY

After 11 years the full Emmy-nominated SILENCED doc now finally available — highlighting the ordeals of 3 national security whistleblowers, including Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake & John Kiriakou — detailing the extreme personal toll they each endured under Bush & Obama Admins. youtu.be/J7UXdr1l1lY

John Bolton said of my client: “Snowden committed treason & ought to swing from a tall tree.” My schadenfreude should soar now that Bolton’s charged w the exact same crime. . . but Trump’s usual vitriol could tank the Bolton prosecution for being selective & vindictive. www.salon.com/2025/10/19/j...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” —Edward R. Murrow

What does it really mean to be an American? What are the key characteristics of an American that represent & reflect the highest and the best (as well as the lowest & the worst) in and of America? Any chance America redeems itself? Or is America fated to fade away with a whimper or a bang? Discuss.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

A recent interview of me on The Darkened Hour podcast. 24 years ago today on 9/11 was my very first day on the job at NSA reporting to the #3. The rest became tragic history. And yet the ‘what ifs’ of 9/11 history still continue to haunt me to this day. adamfitzgerald.podbean.com/e/an-intervi...

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -Orwell

News broke today that gov't used U.S.C. 18 § 793 (part of Espionage Act) & also U.S.C. 18 § 1924 in Bolton raid. Appears @JesselynRadack.bsky.social on 25 Aug was only natsec lawyer who directly called out that the search on @AmbJohnBolton was under the #EspionageAct. salon.com/2025/08/25/j...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims.

"work like this falls to the National Park Service, which was already facing staffing shortfalls when the Trump administration this spring directed additional cuts ... The service used to have 200 people assigned to maintain thousands of acres of trees and gardens in D.C., and now there are 20"

A Watergate Everyday “Georgetown Law School professor Adam Levitin wrote plainly what no one in the media seems to be willing to say: This isn’t normal—it’s corrupt and an out-and-out abuse of power.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...

NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake (@witnessblower.net) for @thenation.com: "What was witnessed with me under Bush & Obama was resurrection of the World War I–era Espionage Act...What we are now seeing with Bolton under Trump represents something even more sinister..." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Powerful piece on #Bolton & how “silence, enforced by fear & secrecy, is the deadliest nat’l security threat of all.” By our client Tom Drake @witnessblower.net ⚖️ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My take in ⁦‪@thenation‬⁩ “We are now seeing the troubling evolution and transformation of how the US government pursues former officials with a vengeance who dare speak truth to power either as critics, dissenters or whistleblowers.”

Sean Dunn fought fascism with a Subway sandwich — but there's more to his story. I wrote about it here: www.salon.com/2025/08/21/d...

As I laid out in this video: Trump's spies KNOW that they've been attacking Hillary based on a conspiracy theory deliberately created by Russian spies on July 26, 2016. Trump's entire survival, basically, is based off Russian disinformation. All of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSa...

This story relied on brave people making the docs available and has been live for just 134 minutes and was published in an outlet run by an oligarch currying favor to Trump. Literally, someone DID speak up.

Reup: Don't Be Distracted from Trump's Filth The plan to invade DC is not a distraction, for Trump, from Epstein. It is part of a plan to roll out fascism. Trump's loss of control bc of Epstein was a speed bump in that march of fascism. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/12/d...

A project I just started on Xitter. Why aren't we tainting everyone who proudly poses with Trump with Trump's cover-up of Epstein?

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

"There's a critical difference between acknowledging a nation’s history and celebrating its worst moments. In Germany, they don’t erase their shameful Nazi past, but that doesn’t mean they’re erecting hagiographic statues commemorating war criminals."

Gazing On Gaza… Just another place in the world where inhumanity is on full display each and every day — defying resolution or solution. As I write: “There is no metaphor that can hold the reality of Gaza now, only a raw, ceaseless ache.“ progressivehub.net/gazing-on-ga...

An excerpt from my new book THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY: amzn.to/3HpQHbg

Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social has been on a roll here recently. Great @longlead.com episode here today and now this. Go buy his books and read his stuff.

The Trump administration is trying to portray journalism as a threat to national security. Listen to FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social on @npr.org's 1A to debunk these claims, discuss the importance of whistleblowers and leakers, and more.

In another episode of “we live in the stupidest timeline,” Jen Easterly, a woman I have (1) never met and (2) did not work for, had her appointment at West Point terminated because Laura Loomer lied about both of us in a tweet. cyberscoop.com/jen-easterly...

Top US law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from Trump. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history. With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

Lots of amplified engagement farming and massive gaslighting going on.

I am being serious that it would ALSO help if lefty pundits help to amplify what Dems are already doing. Just as one example, Durbin letter revealing Bondi spend thousands of person-hours reviewing AND FLAGGING the Epstein files for Trump content.

Second, and more importantly, Annie Farmer smells a rat.

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared - The Atlantic—Some of us know what can happen when you speak up in defense of the Constitution & the fundamental rights & liberties of people increasingly under attack & assault since ‘80s by elected gov’t. Now way out in the open. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Too many desiring ‘might makes right’ plutocratic autocracy & authoritarianism engaging in inhumane actions to control & censor others thru fear & intimidation they don’t like, find objectionable or as threats or enemies of the state. The dystopian slope turning into lawless fiat tyranny w/ a fist.

On 19 July, 1-5pm, I present a provocative talk “From the Darkness of the Deep State into the Light of a Perfecting Future” through the lens of past experiences in life, as a whistleblower, then as a witness to the coming dystopia & utopian future beyond. arlingtoninstitute.org/out-of-perpl...

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset. I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

A corollary to this concept, which turns a president into a despot, is the idea that decrees of the president via executive order or social media post, have the power of law. In this case too, the Congress and our highest court, have offered concurrence explicitly, by silence or by inaction.

The idea, promoted by the administration, that the president may determine which laws to follow, which to ignore and which to violate, is the single most dangerous development in U.S. history since the Civil War. That the Supreme Court and the Congress have accepted it thus far is deeply ominous.

Lots of 'othering' going on. But history's unblinking eye is not kind.