Jean-Thomas Nicole, Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada, reviews On Freedom by Timothy Snyder in The Cipher Brief.

Marc Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA before retiring from the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2019. His positions included field and headquarters operational assignments covering the ...

Rodney Faraon is a former senior CIA China analyst, including two years on the President’s Daily Briefing Staff for two administrations. He was also the founding director of Global Intelligence and ...

Chris Inglis served as the first National Cyber Director where he was responsible for coordinating federal agency work on cyber and overseeing the US’ digital defense strategy. Inglis retired from the ...

Mary Beth Long served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs — the first woman confirmed by the Senate as assistant secretary of defense – and is the first woman to chair ...

Officials see a range of election interference ploys - some aimed at Trump, some at Harris, and most just looking to disrupt ...

Whose analysis do we trust? John Sipher says, be careful what to believe after failed predictions at the start of the Ukraine war.

U.S. National Cyber Director cautions against Chinese attacks and ransomware ...

As Russian forces make slow but steady gains in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region – recently seizing Vulhedar, a coal mining ...

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged ...

EXCLUSIVE — National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Timothy Haugh said the agency was investigating China-linked ...