Americans for Intelligence Reform

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

Left Handed Universe

Jeemes Akers                                       MIRROR-UNIVERSE “The Lord says to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.’”                                 […]

A True Christmas Miracle 

“Dear Mother, I am writing from the trenches. It is 11:00 in the morning. Beside me is a coke fire, opposite me a ‘dug-out’ (wet) with straw in it. The ground is sloppy in the actual trench, but frozen elsewhere … Yesterday the British & Germans met & shook hands in the Ground between the […]

ADAM’S SANDCASTLES 

“We are like children building a sandcastle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep […]

British RAF veteran convicted of spying for Russia

David Ballantyne Smith was arrested in August of 2021 for spying for the government of the Russian Federation. Smith was recently convicted of spying for Russia attempting to form relationships with several high-level government officials in order to gain access to and funnel sensitive information to the Russian government. David Smith is a veteran of […]

Suicide or secret execution of Vladimir Makarov

The recent suicide or secret execution of Vladimir Makarov, an important Russian general, has raised concerns about increasing unrest in Russia. The news of his execution has garnered much attention from international media outlets and has served to highlight the fragility of the Russia’s current political situation. Makarov was a high-ranking military official in the […]

Sunday Coffee with Jeemes: Beach Musings on God

                                BEACH MUSINGS ON GOD                                        “If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”                                                                                             Jimmy Buffet “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.”                                                                                                                                                                         Kahlil Gibrah            I’ve been trying to take a walk on the beach […]

Sunday Coffee with Jeemes: George Armstrong Custer

        HE’S EVERYWHERE: GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER                                          “Now ordinary people are born forwards in Time, if you understand what I mean, and nearly everything in the world goes forward too. This makes it quite easy for the ordinary people to live, just as it would be easy to join those five dots into a […]

Sunday Coffee with Jeemes: A mind-“Neom”ing future

                             A MIND-“NEOM”ING FUTURE VISION    “I want to be clear about this—Neom is a complex, bold, and highly ambitious undertaking and is most certainly not an easy one to deliver … But we are making strong progress, and it’s exciting to see the vision come to life.”                                                                                Antoni Vivas1                                                                                                                      Our grand trek is […]

Sunday Coffee with Jeemes: Drone wars

                        DRONE WARS: WHOSE LAWS WILL APPLY?  “Biden had quietly put in place [with a new drone strike policy in early October 2022] many of the limitations that the new policy now formalizes when he took office. The policy now officially reverses a loosening of Obama-era rules under then-President Trump, which had pushed authority for […]