CIA's greatest weapon throughout the years, cold hard cash.

CIA cannot be a global intel service. It would need 10x the people, language skills, country knowledge it has. It relies on liaison with 60+ foreign services, some in nations decidedly not allies. And liasion with NATO nations is crumbling -- openly. It's all about trust. And trust has been broken.

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And now we are ruled by a thousand katherine harrises

No one knows when they will rule but seems clear that Trump will lose, given the way oral arguments have gone.

The bunker is more vulnerable to penetration now and will be as long as the new palace is under construction. Another counterintelligence nightmare created by Trump in what Bill Burns calls the "strategic self-immolation" of the US national securty and intelligence architecture erected since 1945.

We'll start at 2:30, done before 4 pm Friday.

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his new book The Mission: the CIA in the 21st century for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here:

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