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My Turn, Mike Vickers: Sheriff's position should be to serve and protect - Salisbury Post
My Turn, Mike Vickers: Sheriff’s position should be to serve and protect Published 12:00 am Sunday, November 6, 2022 By Mike Vickers When it comes to the office of sheriff, I’ve always felt that the position should be like judge and nonpartisan. The chief law enforcement for the county shouldn’t be influenced by political agendas and solely focus on service to the county’s citizens, which they have sworn to serve and protect, with equal focus on both of those ideologies, serve and protect.
John Ratcliffe is undermining U.S. intelligence. He should resign. - The Washington Post
Michael Morell, a contributing columnist for the Post, served as deputy director of the CIA from 2010 to 2013 and twice as acting director during that period. Mike Vickers served as undersecretary of defense for intelligence from 2011 to 2015.
Pardoning Snowden only helps Putin, Mr. President
Edward Snowden addresses the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon in 2019. (Armando Franca/AP) Michael Morell served as deputy director of the CIA from 2010 to 2013 and twice as its acting director; he is a contributing columnist to The Post. Mike Vickers served as under secretary of defense for intelligence from 2011 to 2015. In an interview with the New York Post in the Oval Office on Aug. 13, President Trump said he would consider pardoning Edward Snowden.
The Russian bounty intel catastrophe
When it comes to the issue of Russia and Afghanistan, here's what we can all agree on: There has been a stream of intelligence saying or suggesting that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-associated militants for the killing of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Opinion | Here’s how a normal administration would have handled the Russian bounty intel
Michael Morell was the deputy director of the CIA from 2010 to 2013 and was twice its acting director. He is a contributing columnist to The Post. Mike Vickers was undersecretary of defense for intelligence from 2011 to 2015. When it comes to the issue of Russia and Afghanistan, here’s what we can all agree on: There has been a stream of intelligence saying or suggesting that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-associated militants for the killing of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Opinion | A world of trouble awaits Biden if he wins
Michael Morell, a contributing columnist for The Post, was the deputy director of the CIA and twice acting director from 2010 to 2013. Mike Vickers was the undersecretary of defense for intelligence from 2011 to 2015. They worked for six presidents during their careers. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president in March 1933, the challenges he faced were profound — the depths of the Great Depression, calls for radical political change, and the rise of fascism in Germany and Japan.
Opinion | This is not the moment to retreat from Afghanistan
U.S. soldiers at a training session last month for Afghan army personnel in Herat, Afghanistan. (Jalil Rezayee/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) Michael Morell Contributing columnist covering intelligence and national security. March 15 at 9:17 AM Michael Morell is a contributing columnist to The Post and was deputy director of the CIA from 2010-2013, serving as acting director twice during that time. Mike Vickers served as undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015.
Good boat ramp etiquette helps keep everyone afloat
By Capt. Mike Vickers, Correspondent Wednesday Mar 13, 2019 at 2:01 AM Here are a few tips to help you with launching a boat at a crowded ramp. As the weather warms, more and more boaters and anglers will be at our county boat ramps. Here are a few tips to help you with launching a boat at a crowded ramp. Before pulling up to a ramp to back down and launch, have all of your supplies and gear loaded into the boat.
If we ease pressure on the Islamic State group, we could be attacked again
The United States and its coalition must keep the pressure on the tens of thousands of Islamic State group members who remain in Iraq and Syria. We were both deeply involved in our nation’s fight against al-Qaida and its early fight against the Islamic State group, and we both believe it is imperative that President Donald Trump remember what we consider to be the most important lesson of counterterrorism – the ability of a terrorist group to quickly regenerate if the pressure on it is reduced.
If we ease up, ISIS could attack us again
OPINION If we ease up, ISIS could attack us again By MICHAEL MORELL AND MIKE VICKERS | Special to The Washington Post | Published: December 31, 2018 We were both deeply involved in our nation’s fight against al-Qaida and its early fight against Islamic State, and we both believe it is imperative that President Donald Trump remember what we consider to be the most important lesson of counterterrorism — the ability of a terrorist group to quickly regenerate if the pressure on it is reduced.
Opinion | If we ease pressure on the Islamic State, we could be attacked again
A helicopter flies over the compound where al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters) Michael Morell Contributing columnist covering intelligence and national security. December 30 at 7:24 PM Michael Morell, a Post contributing columnist, was deputy director of the CIA from 2010 to 2013 and twice its acting director during that time. Mike Vickers is a former special forces officer and CIA operations officer.
Letter: In defence of (some) locums
I too am an optometrist, and thoughI do not share the political achievements of my esteemed (though unnamed) colleague, I do broadly agree with his or her aspirations of how we should perform our duties as a member of this profession. Though, strictly speaking, I am not a locum – more a self-employed practitioner of long standing at two east midland independent practices – I have worked and do work alongside locums who I unhesitatingly entrust my personal eye care to.
An open letter to Donald Trump
Mr. Trump, with all due respect to you as the presidential nominee of the Republican Party, you cannot credibly serve as commander in chief if you embrace Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader has repeatedly shown himself to be an adversary of the United States. Putin, during his long tenure, has repeatedly pursued policies that undermine U.S. interests and those of our allies and partners.
6 Threats, 6 Changes, & A Brave New World: Intel Chief Vickers
WASHINGTON: There’s no one thing that keeps the Pentagon’s chief of intelligence up at night. There’s half-a-dozen things — terrorism, cybersecurity, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China — but Mike Vickers has a six-point plan to counter them. “The big challenge we face is really in the aggregation of challenges,” the under secretary for intelligence said this morning at the Atlantic Council. “It’s not that any one challenge is so daunting, it’s that there’s six of them.
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