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...

Today's Washington Post editorial vigorously defending the destruction of the East Wing to build a new ballroom somehow failed to mention this

The movies don't get any scarier than this. www.spytalk.co/p/stage-frig...

"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...

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...

Nearly 40 years later, an Iran-contra couple reunites in a "secret" ceremony in Virginia. www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

With another 9/11 anniversary next week, this was quite the development on the legal front. www.spytalk.co/p/case-of-sa...

"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-...

"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...

"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...

It turns out there was a whole other side to the host of Firing Line. www.spytalk.co/p/william-f-...

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...

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-...

Last week, DNI Tulsi Gabbard went on the Megyn Kelly show and gave an account what a crucial "top secret" intel memo said about ties been the Maduro regime and Tren de Aragua. Then, the memo was declassified and released. www.spytalk.co/p/gabbard-an...

Check out my new pod w/ @SpyTalker in which we dissect DNI Tulsi Gabbard's interview w/megynkelly and reveal how (11:30 in) she leaks selective details from what she describes as a "top secret classified" intel doc. youtube.com/watch?v=fJR_...

On 1/20, Trump took the oath to "preserve, protect & defend" the Constitution. Today, this exchange: “But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Welker asked. “I don’t know,” Trump replied.

"The prospect of new war crimes charges against Putin could, to say the least, complicate the peace talks that President Trump, and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, are seeking to bring to fruition." www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

A Spy For All Reasons www.spytalk.co/p/a-spy-for-...

Laura Loomer is the new Rasputin in the court of Donald Trump www.spytalk.co/p/laura-loom...

From the Kremlin to Capitol Hill: How JFK conspiracy theories have come full circle. www.spytalk.co/p/anna-lunas...

#SpyTalk #MSWMedia @spytalker.bsky.social @misikoff.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjA3...

A useful reminder not to die on the weekend

"I guarantee you, this is the tip of the iceberg," veteran CIA officer Luis Rueda tells me on the @spytalker.bsky.social podcast about the use of Signal to conduct government business, including classified matters, on cell phones vulnerable to commercial spyware. www.spytalk.co/p/cia-ops-ve...

This is hilarious, but alas, not a joke. www.spytalk.co/p/inside-the...

Another unsolved DC crime. www.spytalk.co/p/unsolved-m...

"It seems like a pretty bizarre pick," says one US intel official about Tulsi Gabbard's selection of controversial podcaster Daniel Davis to be deputy DNI in charge of PDBs for the Oval Offfice. www.spytalk.co/p/conspiracy...

A sobering take from the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO in a @spytalker.bsky.social interview www.spytalk.co/p/trump-revi...

The Thursday afternoon massacre www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

In fascinating interview with @spytalker.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social tells how his @citizenlab.ca investigators connected the dots between high tech spyware and political repression around the globe, resulting in a spate of "Watergate-like" scandals. www.spytalk.co/p/tracking-t...

Quite the informative (and at times surprising) interview with @jahimes.bsky.social, ranking D on House intel, on the SpyTalk podcast--on China & TikTok, on D mistakes in resisting Trump and the "really, really scary" Jan. 6 pardons. www.spytalk.co/p/trumps-scu...

Oops. RFK Jr admits he failed to report more than $400k from anti-vax non-profit. Trump transition tells @thedailybeast.bsky.social it was “an oversight.” www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-admit...

Interesting point by @julianbarnes.bsky.social on #HavanaSyndrome. Critics used to decry the Trump Admin for not accepting the conclusions of its intel agencies. On its way out the door, the Biden White House is doing the same thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/u...

A striking moment: In briefing for intel reporters, ODNI official disses Sixty Minutes reporting on Havana Syndrome, saying "it does not hold up to scrutiny" and "we have information that contradicts it." www.spytalk.co/p/spy-agenci...

The Maltese Falcon on the Greenland trip www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-secre...

A top DOJ national security prosecutor who oversaw classified docs case for Jack Smith resigns, concluding it "wasn't worth it" to stay on and get fired. www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

There's quite the backstory to how Mike Pompeo got aced out of the Trump Cabinet and, as it turns out, I along with 2 fellow journalists @zachsdorfman.bsky.social and Sean Naylor played a role www.spytalk.co/p/how-mike-p...

In mid-September, the day after the Israeli covert op to blow up Hezbollah trainers, Mouaz Moustafa got a heads up that the long awaited Syrian rebel offensive was finally about to happen. In my latest SpyTalk piece and podcast, he tells me what he was told-- and why. www.spytalk.co/p/emerging-s...

Connecting the dots www.spytalk.co/p/the-odd-li...

A robust SpyTalk episode with intel veteran Chis Costa about Russian hybrid warfare and the prospects for a Ukraine deal after Trump takes office. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

How do we know Tulsi Gabbard echoed Assad's talking points after meeting with him in Syria in 2017? I explain on @insidewithpsaki.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vmvba...

Lots to chew over in my piece about the (separate) trips Tulsi Gabbbard and I took to Syria in 2017 to meet with Assad. www.spytalk.co/p/tulsi-gabb...

Tulsi Gabbard and I were in Damascus within a couple of weeks of each other in 2017 to meet with Bashar al-Assad. We came away with very different takes. www.spytalk.co/p/tulsi-gabb...

In light of today's news that Joe and Mika visited Trump at Mar-A-Lago, a little history www.yahoo.com/news/how-tru...