Gobsmacked. There's no other word to describe my reaction to Trump's latest assertion of the power to disclose intelligence informat...

I get a bit tired of candidates accusing each other of "flip-flops." I suppose no one remembers Ralph Waldo Emerson, who penned...

May Day, 1960, CIA pilot (former Air Force officer) Francis Gary Powers, flying alone at more than 70,000 feet, was on his 27th U-2 mission,...

I just listened to the tapes released by Ukraine of separatist militiamen talking to Russian military officers about the shooting down o...

Today's news seems somewhat hopeful. It isn't clear how it came about, but it sounds like Secretary of State Kerry may have propos...

ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): From Adak B-24's and B-25's fly 26 bombing, strafing, and radar and photo reconnaissance sorties over ...

Who watches the watchers? Juvenal: Satires, Book VI

I realize my previous post on communications intelligence might have been a bit much for some readers. My excuse is that I was personally fa...

The Snowden affair calls to mind an earlier history of U.S. Intelligence efforts targeting communications. In the 1920's and 30's, t...

Recent disclosures that NSA has been collecting data, perhaps massive amounts of so-called meta data, on telephone, internet and social netw...