Exclusive: Republicans Question Former Spy About CIA’s Potential Role in Casting ‘Laptop from Hell’ as Russian Disinfo
Andrew Makridis retired from the CIA at the end of 2022. He served four years as COO, the number three position at the CIA.

Andrew Makridis retired from the CIA at the end of 2022. He served four years as COO, the number three position at the CIA.

Chinese state media went into overdrive this week to distract from revelations of a massive state-linked Chinese cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure, howling that China is actually the world’s biggest victim of cybercrime, while America is the greatest threat to global information security.

Former CIA officer Joshua Schulte faces 40 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to WikiLeaks, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday. He was also found guilty of possessing child abuse images.

Qatari Ambassador to the U.S. Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani allegedly attempted to interfere in both American and European Union politics.

American intelligence agencies “will attempt” to interfere in the 2024 presidential election to help President Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump, former CIA analyst Dr. John Gentry alleged Tuesday.

Former CIA intelligence analyst John Gentry is predicting that a politicized intelligence community will attempt to interfere in the 2024 election, similar to their efforts in 2020.

Iran is demanding former President Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and others pay nearly $50 billion for killing Qasem Soleimani.

A ceasefire that involves Hamas’s complete departure from Gaza would echo the solution that helped to end the First Lebanon War in 1982

A top CIA official posted a pro-Palestinian image on Facebook two weeks after Hamas launched a mass terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, according to a report.

The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Israeli government to declare a “pause” in fighting against Hamas — even as Israel continues to push the terror organization into a corner.

China on Wednesday launched its “Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative” at the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum in Beijing.

Michael Hayden was in the news recently over comments he made about Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville. Meet the MAGA-bashing former CIA and NSA chief who has become an “advisor” with the media blacklisting organization NewsGuard.

Former CIA and NSA Director and retired Air Force general Michael Hayden called for Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville to be removed from the “human race” in a social media post Monday.

The CIA is in the final stages of developing an AI tool designed to enhance the analysis of open-source intelligence, marking a significant stride in the West’s ongoing technological rivalry with China.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger says the site has been hijacked by U.S. intelligence agencies for “information warfare” on the internet.

Tucker Carlson is worried that former President Donald Trump could be the target of an assassination, since his “popularity rose” after each indictment.

The Chinese Ministry of State Security claimed it found an “official of a national ministry” who was sharing secrets with the CIA.

Russian spymaster claims hour-long call with CIA director Burns to talk about the Wagner rebellion and “what should be done about Ukraine”.

Aaron Berman, a 17-year veteran of the CIA who already held a senior position in Facebook’s “misinformation” team during the 2020 election, has been promoted to “Head of Elections Policies” at the company now known as Meta.

The recent indictment of former President Donald Trump is part of a “never-ending persecution” against him, according to conservative radio legend Michael Savage who questioned where any crime took place, while portraying Trump as “the only person who can possibly save this nation” from its current state.

Dr. Garry Nolan, a professor at Stanford University’s medical school who worked with the CIA to analyze U.S. personnel who developed medical issues after alleged contact with UFOs, has state that extraterrestrial life not only exists, but walks among us.

Despite Twitter’s widely documented cooperation with the security deep state and its cutouts in the NGO-media complex during his tenure as Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey is now dropping JFK quotes attacking the FBI, CIA, and NSA.

Brennan and Clapper were aware Russian collusion was a hoax cooked up by Hillary Clinton but tried to cook up their own scheme to help Biden in 2020.

The United States has launched a social media campaign aimed at recruiting spies from Russia, reports on Monday have suggested.

Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell is one of the D.C. area’s top 500 “most influential people” this year, according to an annual list published by the Washingtonian.

Congressman Darrell Issa sent a letter to the CIA Inspector General to request the agency investigate findings of current employees of the spy agency “[advancing] partisan political interests” of the Biden campaign in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

At least 11 of the signatories on the spy letter discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation have scored “numerous visits” to the Biden White House, according to a report.

A former senior CIA official testified to Congress that Morell said someone in the “Biden world” asked him about writing a letter suggesting the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.

A coauthor of the statement 51 former intel officials wrote casting doubt on the Hunter Biden story in 2020 testified to Congress that he still had “suspicions” that Russia had involvement in the story’s publication, according to a congressional report published Wednesday.

Top House investigative committees have evidence that at least one CIA employee allegedly had a role in obtaining signatures for the now-debunked statement that 51 former intelligence officials signed casting doubt on the Hunter Biden story in 2020, according to a joint committee report.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken lied to Congress about emailing Hunter Biden during a transcribed interview in December 2020, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) alleged Sunday.

Documents reportedly indicate the number of individuals connected to Jeffrey Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender is bigger than previously known, but the reason for the meetings remains unclear.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed the ‘Biden Crime Family’ after the revelation that then-Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken spurred a letter from dozens of intelligence officials to discredit the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 presidential election.

The State Department refused to comment on whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken disputed Republicans’ assertions that as a senior adviser to the 2020 Biden presidential campaign he was involved in recruiting former intelligence officials in an effort to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the election.

Hundreds of former officials at the CIA, FBI, and DHS were hired at Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter between 2017 and 2022, an analysis of LinkedIn data has found.

House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan and House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Turner on Wednesday demanded 29 CIA officials who took part in the effort to discredit the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop appear for transcribed interviews and disclose documentation of their widely debunked claims.

Malcolm X’s family announced their plan to sue the CIA, FBI, and NYPD for $100 million for “their handling” of his murder.

President Joe Biden, embattled in controversy stemming from his handling of classified documents, had previously tanked former President Jimmy Carter’s nomination for CIA director over his alleged mishandling of classified documents while Biden served in the U.S. Senate.

Silicon Valley giants including Facebook and Twitter are full of former members of the U.S. intelligence community, according to reports from Mint Press and the Daily Mail. These employees are often found in the “trust and safety” or “misinformation” departments of tech companies — the sections tasked with platform censorship.

During an interview aired on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” CIA Director William Burns said that the agrees with FBI Director Christopher Wray’s assessment that TikTok is a threat to national security and “it’s genuinely troubling to see what the Chinese government
