Can't cancel this, Mr. President!

Tickets are going fast for the Wit Literary Festival -- with the legendary CIA officer Jim "Mad Dog" Lawler, the great author and journalist @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff, and yours truly -- Friday 9/26 in Lenox, MA. Pick up a pair right here! authorsguild.org/event/wit-20...

I'm off on a book tour! If you can't join, please buy THE MISSION right here. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester VT, 9/20. NextStage, Putney VT 9/21. WiT Festival, Lenox MA, 9/25, Thalia Bookstore, Hamburg, Germany, 10/1, American Library, Paris, France, 10/7. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Straight-up Kremlin propaganda.

Excellent interview on the crisis at CIA. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

In which Trump is indicted in the court of history. youtu.be/wK1iN3NmYYg?...

When future historians chronicle the Second Civil War, they may see this story as a harbinger of what was to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

People of Montana! I'll be keynoting the Free Press Fest on September 16, followed by a talk about the state of the nation with former Senator John Tester, at Montana State in Bozeman. Be there or be square! montanafreepress.org/montana-free...

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Highly recommend.

The president is a war criminal. Read all about it in CODEWORD, my new newsletter. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-depart...

The president is a war criminal. The case against him is here, in my new newsletter, CODEWORD. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-depart...

What’s the CIA really been up to since 9/11? 🤔 Find out Tue, Sept 9, 7pm ET with Tim Weiner & NPR’s Greg Myre. In Arlington or on YouTube livestream. Stick around for the reception + book signing! REGISTER: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20085... @scharschool.bsky.social @genmhayden.bsky.social

Putin tried to kill the leader of the EU. Part of his 20-year campaign of sabotage and subversion in European nations. Americans need to wake up to the nature of Trump's alliance with him. At the edge of the horizon of what's possible? A secret pact to carve up Europe. Echoes of Hitler and Stalin.

A five-star review by Tom Griffin of The Mission: The CIA in the Twenty-First Century. open.substack.com/pub/intellig...

The nation we knew is being demolished. Read all about it in "Vanishing America," the latest edition of my new newsletter, CODEWORD, a chronicle of intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/vanishing-...

📖 Pulitzer Prize–winner Tim Weiner joins NPR’s Greg Myre to talk "The Mission: CIA in the 21st Century" 🗓 Sept 9, 7pm ET 📍 Hayden Center, Arlington, VA, or on YouTube ➡️ Reception + book signing after! REGISTER: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20085... Seats are limited—don’t miss it!

New CODEWORD just dropped! CODEWORD is my new newsletter on intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/vanishing-...

Who will want to work for American intelligence after this is over? We're witnessing a deliberate sabotage by Trump's national security team.

And there you have it, the beginning of the end of constitutional democracy, August 26, 2025.

Garrett Graff, who has become one of the country's leading journalists and historians, captures this dangerous moment in America. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

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...

Illegal as hell. Willful lawbreaking by Kristi Noem. And part of the larger attack on freedom of information, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. A war on history, if you will. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

This general has been fired because his analysts assessed that the US bombing attack did not obliterate the Iranian nuclear plant. We are witnessing the slow strangulation of American intelligence. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I'll be talking about THE MISSION and Trump's attack on American intelligence with @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on Lucid lucid.substack.com at 1 PM eastern today.

Autocracy in America proceeds apace. Read all about it in my newsletter -- CODEWORD. Subscribe! It's free. (Link in the kicker.) timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-purge

Here's the new edition of CODEWORD, my fledgling newsletter on #intelligence and #natsec and the like. Today we look at the ideological purge of America's national security establishment and its likely consequences. Subscribe! It's free. (Link in the kicker.) timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-purge

Kash Patel is wrecking the FBI. Bondi is wrecking Justice. All in the name of the Dear Leader. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

America is less safe. And the cowardly silence on these purges from GOP foreign policy hands (who know this is outrageous) is quite telling… economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

In which Jack Goldsmith, stellar conservative legal scholar of his generation, says the Justice Department is a smoking radiating ruin. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Here's the new edition of CODEWORD, my fledgling newsletter on #intelligence and #natsec and the like. Today we look at the ideological purge of America's national security establishment and its likely consequences. Subscribe! It's free. (Link in the kicker.) timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-purge

A new edition of my new newsletter, CODEWORD, drops tomorrow, on the ideological purges destroying American intelligence. Check out the first three issues here. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/codeword-s...

Gabbard whacked two of the CIA's most heralded analysts, Beth Sanner and Ted Gistaro -- both quoted on the record in THE MISSION. This disgraceful act will have consequences -- she outed at least one undercover officer, probably illegally. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump's FBI director, Kash Patel, is sabotaging the Bureau, in particular its intelligence and national-security powers.

He wants to cancel elections in an international crisis, and with his team of Ratcliffe, Patel, Gabbard, and Hegseth in charge of American national security, odds are he will get one.

Here's the kicker of my review of Whitaker's 2020 book "Above the Law." (He served as acting Attorney General under Trump): "This cheap-jack jeremiad will stand as a testament to a low, dishonest time in which the rule of law teetered on a terrible precipice."

Now that this dingbat is playing statesman, you really should read my review of his work. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/matt...

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

My obit for Judge Webster. We will not see his like again. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

The Mission by @tim-weiner.bsky.social

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Three is a magic number. Third edition of my new newsletter, CODEWORD, is out shortly. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century is #3 on the NYTimes bestseller list. And -- as all good things come in threes -- LEGACY OF ASHES will be #3 on next week's NYT list! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

It's sometimes hard to accept that this dangerous fool is the titular American intelligence czar.

Come for the reporting, stay for the link to my new newsletter, CODEWORD.

Very happy to get our story about the innocuous sounding Afghan Counterterrorism Unit (CTU) which was a 11 man, 1 woman strong compartmentalized Afghan intel org run as a proxy by the CIA. They did some pretty epic ops, this article covers the highlights of this previously undisclosed unit.

On the air with DEEP STATE RADIO in a deep discussion of THE MISSION. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...