Long before Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Warren Harding sought to heal a pandemic-ravaged country by commuting socialist Eugene Debs's sentence.

“This is my home,” Angie Nixon, the democratic socialist candidate targeted by Vance, said in response.

Our interview with Bojan Pancevski, author of "The Nord Stream Conspiracy."

China stepped up espionage, hacked Biden campaign, but didn’t engage in 2020 election interference, despite Trump claims. (Russia did—again.)

Christina 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

Purge Includes Many Senior Staff at the National Intelligence Council

Retired Gen. Joseph Votel calls Trump’s threats to destroy Iranian civilization “shocking”

How an Orwellian Obama-era memo set a precedent for Trump’s Iran attack

Unsealed FBI affidavits make no mention of DNI’s claim rationalizing her involvement in Georgia election probe

Irony abounds in newly unearthed telephone call on eve of US invasion of Iraq that records Putin warning Bush about violating UN charter and “international law.”

DOJ lawyers cite “substantial security” issues relating to the destruction of the East Wing

Experts shake their heads at FBI official’s testimony

Drug cartels, anti-US rebels would fill leadership void, Pentagon study predicted

Investigative reporter Ron Kessler recounts how another FBI boss's term was short circuited by his personal use of the bureau's executive jet.

A House of Dynamite exposes many weaknesses in US nuclear defenses—including psychological pressures that could cause defense professionals to crack up.

New book details how FBI agents fed questions to CIA interrogators from outside black site torture chambers, nullifying later ‘clean’ statements

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

Oliver North and Fawn Hall are wed in a “secret” ceremony in rural Virginia

Court ruling opens door to more discovery in 9/11 family suits against kingdom

Rep. Jim Himes gets DNI’s attention with reminder she’ll need his help to renew controversial surveillance bill

Michael Isikoff recalls his small part in a big U.S.-Cuba Cold War drama told in a new podcast series, "I Spy: The U,S,, Cuba and the Secret Deal that Ended the Cold War."

The capital’s paper of record only partially claws back a conspiracy monger’s baseless allegations of CIA "involvement" in the murder of President Kennedy.

In a SpyTalk interview Gregory Treverton, former chair of the National Intelligence Council, questions why the DNI still has her job–and whether her office should be substantially reduced in size.

A new biography of the National Review founder explores his early role as an undercover CIA operative who later helped his one time agency boss Howard Hunt cover up Watergate

Mike Pompeo’s pitch is just a glaring case of ex-intel officials getting involved in politics

Rep. James Himes tells SpyTalk that the cost of de-bugging the 747 alone will be enough to stop the transfer.

A declassified National Intelligence Council memo shows the DNI falsely linked ties between the Venezuelan government and Tren de Aragua in her Megyn Kelly interview

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The ICC is reviewing a State Department funded report—based in part on satellite imagery from U.S. intelligence—documenting the mass abduction of Ukrainian children

The ICC is reviewing a State Department funded report—based in part on satellite imagery from U.S. intelligence—documenting the mass abduction of Ukrainian children

The CIA’s Frank Wisner was a master of the dark arts—until he became a burnt out case, an intriguing new biography shows

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Jeff Stein and Mike Isikoff tackle the intelligence news of the day in our inaugural Spy Week in Review video podcast.

The Florida MAGA Congresswoman hosted a hearing of conspiracy zealots that was out of this world.

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Luis Rueda says the astonishing security lapse may be much greater than anybody realizes

Alexander Vindman, star player in Trump’s first impeachment, tells SpyTalk how he found politically explosive evidence in Ukraine and Washington

A military blueprint to attack Canada has been on the books for almost a century now. Former Washington Post feature writer Peter Carlson recounts how he came across it 20 years ago.

Despite video and other evidence, Secret Service investigators have yet to solve the case amid worries of Trump launching covert action against Cuba

Retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis would have control over President’s Daily Brief

In a SpyTalk interview, former US envoy to NATO Lt. Gen. Doug Lute decries JD Vance insults of allies, Trump's Ukraine sellout, warns of more Putin threats

The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Ad...