Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Retired CIA Chief of Station, Brad Johnson on the killing of Baghdadi

https://youtu.be/6_88pZD7_BM         Brad Johnson it is October 27th 2019 and 00:03 we heard the news this morning last 00:06 night that the new Osama bin Laden 00:09 al-baghdadi is dead again and I know 00:14 that these JD’s they have this there 00:16 it’s whack-a-mole with these guys you 00:18 think you […]

Venezuela’s Admission to Human Rights Council UN

A picture taken on June 26, 2019 shows a general view of the United Nations Human Rights Council room during a debate on the report of (UN) special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Geneva. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images On Oct. 17, Venezuela was elected to […]

Why Iran May Try to Influence 2020 US Elections by Brad Johnson for The Epoch Times

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard special forces participate in military manoeuvers at an undisclosed location near the Persian Gulf on April 3, 2006. (-/AFP via Getty Images) Iran and China pose a serious threat to the United States, and for the past couple of years, Iran has increasingly aligned with China. While both countries have had […]

NEWS FLASH! Arabic language news flash update by Barry Webb

SAUDI ARABIA/ISRAEL Early the morning of 25 October, al-jazeera TV reported (based on a story of the Israeli paper ha-Aretz) that a “mystery plane” flew from Israel to Riyadh, after a brief stop in Amman Jordan. After 55 minutes on the ground in Riyadh the plane then flew directly back to Israel. The 55 minute […]

Why Iran May Try to Influence 2020 US Elections by Brad Johnson for The Epoch Times

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard special forces participate in military manoeuvers at an undisclosed location near the Persian Gulf on April 3, 2006. (-/AFP via Getty Images)   Iran and China pose a serious threat to the United States, and for the past couple of years, Iran has increasingly aligned with China. While both countries have […]

17-22 October Mideast Arabic Language News and Intelligence report By Barry Webb

TURKEY-SYRIA With Trump’s lightning betrayal of the largely Kurdish/Christian Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the SDF quickly patched things up with the Damascus government of Bashar al-Assad, and the Russians. As a result while Turkish forces and their terrorist militia allies were genociding their way across Syria north and east of the Euphrates River, the Syrian […]

WHO ARE THE KURDS? by Barry Webb for Americans for Intelligence Reform

With the Trump withdrawal from Syria and the worldwide flood of criticism it engendered centered on “betrayal of an American ally,” “inability of anyone being able to trust America in the future,” and (domestically), the “stupidity of Trump,” some of the far right websites and pundits started a cottage industry of demonizing the Kurds, as […]