Americans for Intelligence Reform

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

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: REGARDING THE MATTER OF TODAY’S IDOLS

REGARDING THE MATTER OF TODAY’S IDOLS “Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.” 1 John 5:21 “Humans have turned away from the creator God and have worshipped and served created things instead. They have even created for themselves second-order images of created things, thus worshipping objects twice removed from the creator God and thereby abusing […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: An Old Professor’s Reverie

AN OLD PROFESSOR’S REVERIE by Jeemes Akers “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William A. Ward After all these years, I am now more convinced than ever that the happiest and most successful people I have known in life share one of two characteristics (if […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: A Nighttime Knock on the Door

A NIGHTTIME KNOCK ON THE DOOR by Jeemes Akers “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Commmunist. Then […]

Chinese Human Assets inside American Power Class

China Update July 8, 2021 Daria Novak Chinese Human Assets inside America’s Ruling Class Chinese intelligence assets in America resemble a “large school of fish swimming freely in the sea gobbling up bits of food.” That is how one Chinese official described its covert activities inside the United States. China’s influence operations have long tentacles […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: IT’S A MAD, MAD HACKER’S WORLD

IT’S A MAD, MAD HACKER’S WORLD by Jeemes Akers “Corporate secrets bouncing around a computer system that’s open to the world? Hey, that’s fair game and they deserve the embarrassment of its discovery. But using this knowledge to line your pockets or, worse, using insider knowledge to get the information and then calling that hacking […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: The Protein War

                           THE “PROTEIN WAR”: OPENING GAMBIT by Jeemes Akers, Senior Fellow, Americans for Intelligence Reform “To understand life, you must understand proteins. These long, convoluted molecular chains—each assembled from a menu of 20 types of chemical links called amino acids—are the worker ants of biology. Proteins, in the guise of enzymes, catalyze almost all of […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: A ladybug on the Chapel pew

A LADYBUG ON THE CHAPEL PEW by Jeemes Akers, Senior Fellow, Americans for Intellligence Reform   “How brave a ladybug must be!   Each drop of rain is big as she.   Can you imagine what you’d do,   If raindrops fell as big as you?”                                                                                  Aileen Fischer   “A ladybug sighting has been […]

Second Sunday Coffee with Jeemes: The Time I Co-Owned A Fleet

                                        The Time I Co-Owned A Fleet by Jeemes Akers, Senior Fellow, Americans for Intelligence Reform   “Peace is not found in a calmer storm; it’s found in a better boat.” Travis Meadows                                                                                                                          […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: Adventures In Volkswagen Land

by Jeemes Akers, Senior Fellow, Americans for Intelligence Reform Adventures In Volkswagen Land “A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.” Adolf Hitler “What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: The time I co-owned a fleet

                                        The Time I Co-Owned A Fleet                     by Jeemes Akers “Peace is not found in a calmer storm; it’s found in a better boat.” Travis Meadows                                         […]