Americans for Intelligence Reform

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

Speaker of the house – a lame duck

Anyone at any time can call for a vote on the speaker. Speaker of the house – a lame duck. Big in the news right now, of course, is that McCarthy was finally elected speaker of the House. He`s the old fashioned type of Republican that just kind of plays it out of both sides […]

Big Picture: Jim Jordan and Gaetz are winners, McCarthy – is not

Big Winners and Losers. So Kevin McCarthy has now been elected speaker of the House on the Republican side. Yay. Not a huge fan of McCarthy, as I’ve said many times through the years, even back during the presidency of Donald Trump. However, I think a couple of things that are important, we’ve touched on […]