You would love it, John John Schindler Kurt Akemann Gray Connolly

Next you're gonna tell me that a top Kremlin defector under 'FBI protection' can get beaten to death -- sorry 'he fell down 47 times and somehow broke his hyoid bone' -- a few blocks from the White House and nobody did anything about it.

MIGHTY, I tell you!

Hey what's that F in FISA stand for, smart guy?

PS if you think intercepting ALL international cable traffic going thru NYC didn't impact Americans, you're dumb enough to not understand FISA either.

Re-Up: Given what today is, I'd like to thank the Top 1% for paying 45.8% of all federal income taxes. taxfoundation.org/data/all/feder…

Oh, I didn't miss it :)

If you think FISA is bad, an intolerable violation of American civil liberties, you're never gonna believe what this guy got away with -- then told the world all about.

ICYMI 👇

It's Monday again -- do you have your INTEL?

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Fuck off

When unpleasant regimes talk crazy in public, sounding aggressive & scary, ranting about fighting Satan, etc --Western bien-pensants inevitably conclude it's all for show, they can't REALLY think that, in private they're just like us.

No, they're not, people. Bad guys mean it.

This is no different from the people who were Profoundly Shocked when Putin reinvaded Ukraine in early 2022, after he and his mouthpieces had said publicly for years that Ukraine isn't a real country and rightfully must be lashed to Moscow.

PS they're the same dumb people

Remember: Since 1979 Iran's Revolutionary regime has never once hidden its aims for expanding their clerico-fascism and overturning the existing order in the Middle East. They've said it nonstop.

Make of that you like, folks -- but pretending otherwise got us right to here, now.

I really hope we avoid WW3 over the Israel-Iran war -- that's what it is -- because if we don't, every idiot on this hellsite will be talking about the wonderfulness of the Guns of August right until nuclear release and, frankly, I can't deal.

Quite a fascinating piece of history in code-breaking and self-promotion, perhaps con artistry and treachery as well. The makings of a streaming series and a cautionary tale. Always worth subscribing.

Because you followed me. Get your dementia treated.

Thanks for all your great work. Big (and stupid) loss by the BBC.

Before there was Snowden, there was Yardley...