October 11, 2024

The Growing DEI Threat to Intelligence Agencies

“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) policies are not only ethically controversial features of modern life, they damage key American institutions. My new book on the impact of DEI on U.S. intelligence agencies demonstrates c...

May 24, 2024

U.S. Intelligence Deserves the Distrust It Is Generating

On May 16, Foreign Policy magazine published an article by three experienced intelligence officers, including one who has chronically politicized U.S. intelligence, who argued that the U.S. intelligence community (IC) is getting a bad rap at a critic...

April 6, 2024

Partisan Intelligence Activism Will Reemerge in 2024

U.S. intelligence personnel likely will resume the activism they prominently displayed in 2016-2021 as the presidential campaign season deepens. They then were driven by ideology and special interests, which now are stronger. Many of the former senio...