SpyTalk Intelligence for Thinking People
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No Guts, No Glory
by Jeff Stein on July 29, 2026Senate confirms legally unqualified Jay Clayton to head US Intelligence
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New in SpyWeek: Ratcliffe Urged to Stand Up to Trump
by Jeff Stein on July 27, 2026CIA veterans urge the spy agency chief—and other senior IC officials to publicly confront Trump on election lies, failed Iran War strategies, or resign.
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Lettuce Prayer
by Jeff Stein on July 25, 2026Beware the green monster lurking on your plate
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Feat of Clayton
by Jeff Stein on July 22, 2026ODNI leadership goes from putrid to passable with intelligence panel vote
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SpyWeek: How Trump Shanked Elections Fraud, the Bipartisan Rush on Clayton, Rubio’s Global Terrorism Stunt, and More
by Jeff Stein on July 19, 2026Also: Pulte lobbied to name and smear CIA officials, DOJ activated long dormant secretive terrorism court, a high level real life spy yarn
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A Few Intelligence Nuggets Emerge in Newly Released Documents
by Michael Isikoff on July 17, 2026China stepped up espionage, hacked Biden campaign, but didn’t engage in 2020 election interference, despite Trump claims. (Russia did—again.)
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How I Became a Target of Iranian Intelligence
by Yossi Melman on July 17, 2026Longtime Israeli national security reporter Yossi Melman tells how he recently received some startling news from Iran.
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Jay Clayton Flunked the Test
by Jeff Stein on July 16, 2026High drama ensued when Sen. Jon Ossoff began interrogating the DNI nominee
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Does US Intelligence Matter Anymore?
by Jeff Stein on July 15, 2026Trump, like Stalin, ignores facts and warnings to his—and our—great peril
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SpyWeek: Trump Tries Again with Jay Clayton, Patel Ignites Graham Conspiracy Talk, FBI Probes Air Force One Leak
by Jeff Stein on July 12, 2026Also: Musical chairs at ODNI, CIA analysts' woes, bad Iran intel, Moscow's school for assassins, and more
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Israelis Offer New Details on Joint Regime-Change Strategy and Mossad-CIA plan for Kurdish Invasion
by Yossi Melman on July 6, 2026Finger-pointing, scapegoating sour US-Israeli relations as Iran talks sputter
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Left on a Jet Plane
by Jeff Stein on July 4, 2026I just had to get away.
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A Good Washington Thriller for This 4th of July
by Peter Eisner on July 2, 2026The hero of Robert McCaw's “Traitors” is a top Justice Department counterintelligence official in search of a suspected Russian mole at the very top of the government.
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Death Comes for Cuba’s Master of Repression and Spies
by John Dinges on June 30, 2026Journalist John Dinges recalls bringing together Cuba’s secret police chief and the CIA’s former Miami station chief at a Havana conference on the Bay of Pigs invasion
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Party Time at the ODNI?
by Michael Isikoff on June 28, 2026Christina Norton’s social media photos, now made private, show the new far-right ODNI chief of staff partying around DC and boasting about her GOP “election integrity” work
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New in SpyWeek: Pulte Signals ODNI Elections Role, Gabbard's Guru Unmasked, Trump's Mexican Moles, Death of a CIA Rebel
by Jeff Stein on June 28, 2026Also this week: AI Mole-Hunter Goes Rogue, Israel's intel flop, Bolton's apology, a clever new Russian disinformation ploy, an MKULTRA hearing, Trump strips Anthropic from NSA
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Pulte Dismisses Top ODNI Experts on World’s Hot Spots
by Michael Isikoff on June 25, 2026Purge Includes Many Senior Staff at the National Intelligence Council
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New in SpyWeek: Pulte Eyes Mass Cuts in Counterterrorism, National Intelligence
by Jeff Stein on June 21, 2026Also this week: I.C. predicted US-Israel split over Iran, Tulsi took orders from Hindi guru, Ratcliffe's screen test, Patel's "slush fund" for FBI loyalists, a Nord Stream psywar triumph and more
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The DNI Debacle
by Jeff Stein on June 18, 2026Trump scuttles Clayton pick & surveillance law in effort to pressure Congress to enact voting hurdles
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The Surveillance Saga
by Karen J. Greenberg on June 16, 2026Trump's alarming pick of Bill Pulte to head U.S. intelligence derailed the renewal of Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, throwing its future into limbo
