When I was in Cairo earlier this year and all hell broke loose with Egyptian State Security outside of USAID, here’s the secret part I could say little about at that time:
I wasn’t in Egypt for USAID.
I was there to meet with…
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…Nigerian Christians who have suffered at the hands of Boko Haram and the Fulani Herdsmen Militia, both Islamic terrorist groups.
You see, I was in Nigeria some years ago to report on the terror for Fox News. The plan was simple: I would fly into Abuja without…
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…bodyguards — I have a philosophy about the ineffectiveness of bodyguards in these situations — where I would be swiftly picked up, hidden in an automobile, and driven 6 hours to the north on roads where terrorist attacks are common. The idea, like visiting a cartel…
I just did an interview with @candace_phx of Blaze Media who believe that China’s Ministry of State Security [MSS], an ultra-secretive, massive espionage agency, was responsible for my “swatting” & those of:
In an explosive bit of investigative journalism, Blaze Media’s…
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…@SteveBakerUSA and Joseph M. Hanneman reveal that the MSS used numerous “SIM farms” to direct attacks against critical US infrastructure and political opposition within the United States.
“China’s Ministry of State Security employs more than 800,000 people, nearly…
I’m working through a number of Putin biographies in prep for an “Ideas Have Consequences” series. (You can subscribe via the link in my bio.)
The problem for anyone venturing to understand him is the deliberate deception on both sides: on the part…
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…of Putin who has skillfully mixed fact with fiction to lead would-be investigators astray, and biographers whose otherwise sound judgments have been affected by the considerable gravitational force of our current political climate.
What emerges are wildly divergent…
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…portrayals of a man the West would do well to understand.
But understanding Putin is not easy in a world where his critics present him as insane or a modern Stalin hellbent on resurrecting the Soviet Union (he is neither), and his supporters venerate him as a savior…