New #SpyTalk podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social & @misikoff.bsky.social #MSWMedia 🕵🏼 Guest: @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social Listen: spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/how...

I had a great time chatting with my friends at SpyTalk podcast about the new natsec thriller A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. Listen in ⬇️

I participated in The Steady State's press call today discussing its new assessment of the decline of democracy in the United States, written by former US intelligence analysts using analytic tradecraft honed over decades of public service. ⬇️

I had a great chat w/ @BBCNewshour's Paul Henley this evening. Starts at the 3:10-minute mark--why US Presidents don't normally confirm CIA covert operations. LISTEN: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

More kind words from Rebecca Ferguson on prepping for her role as a senior duty officer in the White House Situation Room in A House of Dynamite. READ: www.indiewire.com/features/int...

Our director Larry Pfeiffer gets a shout-out from Rebecca Ferguson--star of Dune, Mission Impossible, Silo, and now A House of Dynamite. Thread ⬇️

Jason Clarke plays the Sr Director of the WH Situation Room: [These are] "just ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances having to carry out their jobs. Nobody is coming to save us. There is just us." www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Rebecca Ferguson: “They hooked me up with Larry Pfeiffer. He was the man. He’s basically the guy who Jason Clarke plays [in the film]. He’d been that guy, and he was on set every day.” I'm blushing. Go see A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE--now (UK), Oct 10 (US & the world). www.netflix.com/tudum/featur...

RIP Joe Burns. I’ll never forget the late night spent in an after-hours pub in London that catered to the USN. Smooth seas! www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/w...

BREAKING: Trump to rename the Interior Department the Department of the EXTERIOR. "I noticed that all the national parks were outside. No one had made that connection before," Trump said in making this announcement.

A Loomer-cide? Or a natural evolution?

Can’t Trump just buy a monster truck with big tires and fog lamps to compensate for, well, you know? Trump to rename the Defense Department the Department of War www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

What's our director Larry Pfeiffer up to when he's not running the show here? He's helping Oscar-winning directors make movies. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE hits theaters on Oct 3 in the UK and Oct 10 in the US and worldwide. Streaming on Netflix on Oct 24.

Congrats to Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Oppenheim, and Greg Shapiro for the successful launch of A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE today at the Venice Film Festival! I'm proud to have played a part, serving as technical advisor on the film's White House action. @netflix.com deadline.com/2025/09/hous...

Possibly a talented young man, rich in counterterrorism experience, Francesco will be the least experienced Deputy Director of NSA ever. Predecessors have had decades of NSA experience complementing the more itinerant nature of the military Director. /1

Former CIA Director Bill Burns says it so well. Take time to read this. “…under the guise of reform, you all got caught in the crossfire of a retribution campaign—of a war on public service and expertise.” GIFT: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Our Director Larry Pfeiffer: “When our intelligence community leaders conduct end-runs around procedures established to protect sources and methods, they put at grave risk foreign sources risking life and limb to give us information vital to our security.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard have nothing. Check out the full episode where they get into DNI's reckless declassifications, the politically motivated firing of April Doss from her job as general counsel for the NSA, and more. spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/int... @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social

Gabbard Release Threatens Sources and Methods, Top former Intel Official Says www.spytalk.co/p/gabbard-re...

Our Director Larry Pfeiffer: “Sources and methods could be easily inferred in almost every instance. … I don’t know if I’ve seen a document of that sensitivity so lightly redacted.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NSA General Counsel is not a political appointment, but a career position, owing largely to the complicated legal territory involved in its operations, particularly re protecting US civil liberties. Be afraid. Be very afraid. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

From my colleague at The Steady State, Steven Cash: “The CIA’s very existence depends on a functioning constitutional system. Without that, there will be no apolitical CIA to defend.” www.thecipherbrief.com/twcias-reput...

It was too easy!

Just once, I’d love to see Gabbard or Ratcliffe take their nonsense in front of anyone other than a Fox or Newsmax journalist.

Hey @washingtonpost.com editorial board: A quick search of your files would uncover 100s of articles where we’ve been quoted by your national security reporters since then. Shredded credibility? 🤣🤣🤣

Hey @washingtonpost.com editorial board: A quick search of your files would uncover 100s of articles where we’ve been quoted by your national security reporters since then. Shredded credibility? 🤣🤣🤣

Tulsi is doing Vlad’s work for him.

Turns out Trump has chronic venous insufficiency. Blood has trouble reaching his heart. Wait… he has a heart?

Good Night & Good Luck, Stephen. (How far the Tiffany Network has fallen.) CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season

Take the damn dog back, Gen Clapper! 🐕

The lengths people will go to to avoid price hikes from tariffs on products imported from Mexico. (Coke is made with cane sugar in Mexico; Mexican Coca-Cola is imported to the US.)

Unpacking the high stakes: @bloomberg.com turned to @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social on Trump vs. the intel community over Iran. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Petty nonsense.

The good Senator aoparently didn’t read the nuanced measured after-action report on analytic tradecraft which said the analysis was sound in its findings. READ HERE: www.cia.gov/static/Trade...

First take: intelligence stovepipes to be rebuilt/reinforced under this construct. And why kill NIU? What harm did it cause?

WTF! More than tripling a federal employee’s pension contribution while exempting members of Congress and their staff?!? The GOP attack on public service continues. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Great chat with Rebecca Kesby on BBC Newshour. Link below for a listen. ⬇️

On the BBC World Service in the 3pm ET hour. Tune in to hear my thoughts on intelligence & the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Thanks @apnews.com for the chance to weigh in on Trump’s rejection of intelligence on Iran nuke damage.

Solid statement. Avoids hyperbole and Gabbard’s polemics. Manages expectations for change in analysis as collection continues. What would make it better? Make it a CIA statement, not a DCIA one. A good director gets out of the way of the analysis.

With all the edgy stuff we did after 9/11, CIA would always brief the #GangofEight or at least leadership. And still caught crap for what we did later anyway! I can’t imagine completely blowing them off like Trump did for the Iran attack.

Looks like JD Vance is conducting this interview from an Intelligence Community space in LA. Seals on the wall are of IC members. youtu.be/eKouIPwhbPA?...

#NoKingsProtest Signs. Columbia, MD.

#NoKingsProtest Columbia, MD

As one of 50 people subjected to the first of Trump’s “revenge orders,” I stand with @MilesTaylorUSA as he launches his fight. We can’t let this become normal. www.treason.io/p/why-im-cal...

"Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls." ---Donald J. Trump, President

We’re looking forward to hosting Swedish Amb Ahlin for a fresh perspective on world affairs! ⬇️

Forget the makeup studio drama. This is the only makeup that belongs on a warrior. Everything else is just Fox News filler. Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

It’s prob time for someone to check if THIS National Guardsman had a Discord account. #Hegseth #Texeira #Discord #EspionageAct www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...