Our discussion started with a key question: Why is it that Secretary of State Antony Blinken seemed at sea when asked why Russia would invade Ukraine? Yesterday, on Morning Joe, Blinken was gently asked: “What would be the upside for Putin by invading...
Yesterday’s discussion took off from my Ukraine Invasion Scheduled for Wednesday [Feb. 16] Canceled. We focused initially on what emerged from German Chancellor Scholz’s discussions with President Putin Tuesday (as well as some of the “anomalies” in Western media...
Turns out Scott and I now agree on slim likelihood of Russia invading Ukraine. But that might just mean that we’re both wrong now. Our views Friday afternoon on The Critical Hour may garner more interest, given the announcement just now that Biden and Putin will hold...
Does President Joe Biden consider himself King of Europe, with a kind of eminent (or is it “imminent”) domain over multi-billion-dollar projects like the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline? That’s sure what it sounded line yesterday at...
John Rizzo, the CIA’s top lawyer, who gave the green light for torture, is dead. My former CIA colleague, John Kiriakou, who knew him well, has written a fitting “encomium.”Kiriakou knew Rizzo well and describes him as “the unapologetic godfather of the CIA’s torture...
During a 7-minute interview today I was asked whether a lack of good intelligence accounts for the surprisingly rapid Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. I used the opportunity to ring some intelligence-related changes on what Aeschylus wrote so long ago: "In war,...
In a half-hour interview on Afghanistan Tuesday I mused about how Washington’s generals and Pentagon-subservient policymakers thought the U.S. might be able to be the first outside nation to prevail in Afghanistan. And, prevail or not, what the MICIMATT saw to gain in...
Singing Happy 50th Birthday today for Julian Assange under the non-window of his cell. Grassroots activists are now before Belmarsh prison where my 8-min recording is being played at demo organized by Committee to Defend Julian Assange.
Aside from establishing face-to-face contact between the the two presidents, the Biden-Putin summit today met only the most modest expectations of those hoping for improved ties between the U.S. and Russia. By the same token, weapons makers and others profiteering on...
Guess what. Those highly embarrassing Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks on July 22, 2016 were not hacked by the Russians, or by anyone else. This was revealed in sworn, horses’-mouth testimony of Dec. 5, 2017 before he House Intelligence...
