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Covers:  espionage, national security, foreign policy, military affairs, army, fbi, foreign policy, counterinsurgency, nsa, dhs, dni, espionage, spies, pentagon, terrorism, cia, war, counterterrorism, navy
Doesn't Cover: consumer affairs, gadgets, entertainment
Longtime DC intel scribe--Newsweek, WaPo, CQ, UPI, magazines, books. Founding Editor, SpyTalk.co. Podcast: mswmedia.com/show/spytalk

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JEFF STEIN is editor-in-chief of SpyTalk | Intelligence for Thinking People, on Substack. He was formerly Newsweek's national security correspondent and SpyTalk columnist. A Washington-based editor and investigative reporter of long standing, specializing in U.S. intelligence, defense and foreign policy. In 2005, he launched "SpyTalk" as a weekly column at Congressional Quarterly, where he was the founding editor of CQ Homeland Security, and later, national security editor. In 2007 SpyTalk went…

Jeff Stein’s Journalist Portfolio

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How Obama is keeping his bumbling intel chief under the rug...at a most crucial moment - Vocativ

How Obama is keeping his bumbling intel chief under the rug...at a most crucial moment - Vocativ

For someone tasked with being the nation's top intelligence officer, James Clapper seems to get an awful lot …

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Man On The Run

Man On The Run

"Argo" this ain't. Edward Snowden is on his own, it appears. The CIA is hunting, not helping him. Unless he's…

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Useless Big Brother

Useless Big Brother

Poor Big Brother: All trussed up and nothing to do. In Boston, the number of people working on terrorism task…

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Who Are The Spies?

Who Are The Spies?

Do you know what a spy is? Sure, you say: Clown question. But the fact is most people don't know a "spy" from…

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Cia: No Woman No Cry

Cia: No Woman No Cry

I can only imagine the wry smile on G's face when she got the news: You gotta take a bullet for the team. It …

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Bin Laden At The Movies

Bin Laden At The Movies

I don't know about you, but I'm not much closer to the ground truth about how we got Bin Laden than I was two…

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Articles

New in SpyWeek: Bill Pulte's License to Kill, More Kash Cuts, CIA's Gold Theft Headache

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By Jeff Stein 
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Presenting Bill Pulse, top spy (Housingwire art) The Axeman Cometh: In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday, President Trump said he has privately told soon-to-be Acting DNI Bill Pulte that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is “unnecessary and/or too big.” “I’d like to see it smaller,” he added, “I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there.” First up on the cutting board: Holdovers from the Biden and Obama administrations.
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Should We Be Shocked by Reports of Israel Spying on Trump Officials?

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By Jeff Stein 
| SpyTalk
Israel’s Unit 8200 are master eavesdroppers (MSN screengrab). Drop into any U.S. intelligence office and you may well see a large security poster on the wall. It features a photo of Russia’s infamous mole in the CIA, Robert Ames, handcuffed after his 1994 arrest. Below it, in bright yellow letters, is a quote from Yuri Kobaladze, press spokesman for the Russian foreign intelligence service.
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Should We Be Shocked by Reports of Israel Spying on Trump Officials?

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By Jeff Stein 
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Israel’s Unit 8200 are master eavesdroppers (MSN screengrab). Drop into any U.S. intelligence office and you may well see a large security poster on the wall. It features a photo of Russia’s infamous mole in the CIA, Robert Ames, handcuffed after his 1994 arrest. Below it, in bright yellow letters, is a quote from Yuri Kobaladze, press spokesman for the Russian foreign intelligence service.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Virginia Sentinel

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes!

How is social media changing news?

I dunno. Not for the better, probably.

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