Americans for Intelligence Reform

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

Arabic language news update on problems and riots in Eygpt by Barry Webb 27 Sept

Friday, 27 September, al-Jazeera Arabic reported that the call for demonstrations against President as-Sisi asked for the people to hit the streets after the Friday prayers. That has already happened early Friday morning U.S. time. In the meantime the security services blocked off all the streets and bridges leading to midaan at-tahreer (Cairo’s center plaza […]

Brad Johnson on Impeachment fiasco and Ukraine

https://youtu.be/N2NwQFiABtU       Brad Johnson there is an awful lot going 00:02 on speaking as somebody who very much 00:04 admires and watches the states I got to 00:07 admit as an awful lot I just don’t get 00:09 so I think we should start with the 00:11 Ukraine and maybe at some point […]

23 September Arabic language news update By Barry Webb

On the evening of 20-21 September al-jazeera TV reported extensively on “massive” protests taking place in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, and several other cities around Egypt. They called the protest “larger than expected” and members of the crowds were heard chanting for (President) as-Sisi to get lost , and that “the people want to bring down […]

Save the planet through cannibalism? by Brad Johnson

Having worked for the CIA in the espionage business for most of my adult lifetime, it is normal to develop certain habits such as taking unrelated data and figuring out how they are linked. Also forming a certain dislike for coincidence and developing vibrant survivor traits such as paranoia. Along those lines, there have been […]