Jeff Stein

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Editor and Founder, SpyTalk

Washington, D.C.

Crime and Justice, Metro D.C., Military, U.S.

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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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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

"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

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?

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

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

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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Qaeda's Hobbyist Bombers

After 30 months of relative quietude, terrorist bombers literally burst back into the news with the Apr. 15 a…

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New Twist In Old Spy Case

Will the mole wars never end? Nearly two decades after his murder on a quiet road outside Tbilisi, Georgia, t…

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SpyTalk: Hot Shots: Pentagon Power Grab Edition

The Spies vs. the Brass: One of the main reasons the CIA was founded in 1947 was to give the President straig…

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SpyTalk: Hot Shots: CIA Contractors Edition

The CIA and other intelligence agencies came under fire for hiring too many contractors, so what did they do?…

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SpyTalk: CIA's Madame X Waits in the Wings

"She knew her CTC work would come back to bite her, and said as much back when we were both on the 7th floor,…

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SpyTalk: The Leak Dogs Are Gonna Bite Obama in the End

One of the salacious ironies of the John Kiriakou case is that the dogs the Obama administration has let loos…

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Why was a Navy adviser stripped of her career?

Gwenyth Todd had worked in a lot of places in Washington where powerful men didn't hesitate to use sharp elbo…

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What makes a perfect spy tick?

"A Perfect Spy," John le Carre On a rainy day in the spring of 1967, I shuffled into a classroom at the U.S. …

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Snowden's Red Dawn

Give the hard-liners credit: After one stunning revelation after another about the National Security Agency's…

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A New Generation of Spy Catchers Shakes Up the FBI

Not that long ago, top FBI counterterrorism officials didn't know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites. …

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Lara Logan's Mystery Man

Nobody at 60 Minutes has been fired or even publicly disciplined for its odd, inflammatory and dead-wrong Oct…

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Cranked Up Intelligence

In Washington, D.C., they say, your enemies stab you in the back, your friends stab you in the chest. So it w…

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Some Good Mole Nostalgia

The CIA mole-catcher's memoir that inspired ABC's The Assets, the espionage miniseries debuting on January 2,…

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Murder Most Fouled: How Pakistani Spy Officials Blocked Justice for Daniel Pearl

Of all the open sores in the long, painful relationship between the United States and Pakistan, the dragged-o…

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