Former CIA Director John Brennan wants Americans to view him as a victim of President Trump’s alleged effort to “suppress freedom of speech & punish critics.” President Trump ordered Brennan’s clearance stripped in July, a decision announced on Aug. 15. “It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking…
President Obama called Recep Erdogan, Turkey’s president, one of his five favorite foreign leaders. President Trump has taken a different posture on Turkey. On Friday, August 10, he tweeted that “our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!” Since Erdogan’s re-election in June, the Turkish lira has fallen from 4.6 Turkish lira…
As the United States and its coalition partners continue to squeeze ISIS out of its remaining territory in Iraq and Syria, more and more foreign fighters are returning to their home countries. This migration from the battlefield to the hometown is causing great concern among Western counterterrorism authorities. The question…
It seemed fitting, even at the time, that the vast carnage of World War II was finally ended by a weapon of such enormous destructive power that it altered mankind’s concept of the very nature of war. Today, cyber weapons are as disruptive a technology as the atomic bomb, requiring…
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC), on the one hand, and human rights, on the other hand, constitute a classic oxymoron, as underlined by the country-membership of the Council. Moreover, since its establishment in 2006, and just like its predecessor, the UN Commission on Human Rights, the HRC has been…
Israel’s domestic intelligence agency chief Nadav Argaman last week released sobering figures on the scope of the ongoing terrorist threat facing Israelis. The figures that make it clear that the relative quiet routine in Israeli cities is deceptive, and that this quiet rests completely on counter-terrorist efforts, which almost defy…
Democrats opposing safe borders for America have rushed to Twitter and the microphones to compare illegal aliens scamming our refugee system to Holocaust victims, with President Trump cast as Hitler. These disgusting remarks trivialize the murders of 1.5 million Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish children were not separated from their mothers…