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A Woke CIA … or a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Society?

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There is a battle currently going on over whether the CIA should be woke or not. The battle was  apparently incited by a recent segment of a social media series issued by the CIA entitled “Humans of CIA.” According to an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, Susan Gordon, deputy director of national intelligence from 2017-2019, says that the aim of the series is to “connect to America, and if they’re lucky, attract new talent.” Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo went on the attack, exclaiming, “We can’t afford to risk our national security to appease some liberal, woke agenda.” Republican Senator Ted Cruz weighed in: “My point is that CIA agents should be bad-asses — not woke, fragile flowers.” They upset Gordon, who responded in her article, "As a woman, I am plenty familiar with the false choice between diversity or excellence; the seemingly legitimate argument of ...

JFK Conference Update

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This Wednesday, May 12, at 7pm Eastern Time, we have the concluding presentation in our online conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination.” I will be making that presentation, which will be entitled “Regime Change: The JFK Assassination.” I invite everyone to attend. If you haven’t registered for the conference, you can do so at our conference website. A Zoom link will be sent to you. My presentation, which will be amplified by Apple Keynote slides, will be the most complete talk I have ever given on the Kennedy assassination. Forewarning: It will be around 2 1/2 hours long. So, if you’re a coffee drinker, it would be good to have a pot ready before we get started. However, we have added one additional session to the conference on Wednesday, May 19, that will be a panel session entirely devoted to Q&A. It will primarily revolve around the political context of the assassination (as ...

Don’t Stop with Afghanistan

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REMINDER: Our online conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination” continues this evening at 7 pm Eastern time. Our presenter will be Douglas Horne, who served on the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s. Horne is the author of the five volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board and FFF’s book JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated. Horne’s presentation will be around 2 3/4 hours long. Therefore there will be no  Q&A tonight. However, we are adding a panel discussion to the conference that will be held on Wednesday, May 19, at 7 pm Eastern. Horne will be participating on that panel and so there will be plenty of time to address questions to him. Next Wednesday, May 12, will be my presentation—"Regime Change: The JFK Assassination." ******* If you haven’t registered for the conference and would like to attend tonight’s presentation, ...