Tim Weiner

CIA's greatest weapon throughout the years, cold hard cash.

CIA cannot be a global intel service. It would need 10x the people, language skills, country knowledge it has. It relies on liaison with 60+ foreign services, some in nations decidedly not allies. And liasion with NATO nations is crumbling -- openly. It's all about trust. And trust has been broken.

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And now we are ruled by a thousand katherine harrises

This isn't proof that the Kremlin had a unique source of kompromat on Trump, but it's shall we say highly suggestive.

Do your part. I'll do mine. www.falloffreedom.com

No one knows when they will rule but seems clear that Trump will lose, given the way oral arguments have gone.

Tuesday's vote and today's SCOTUS blowout against tariffs might, just might, show that the wheels are starting to come off the Trump juggernaught. We live in hope.

Can't wait for our Wednesday, Nov 19, discussion with @tim-weiner.bsky.social about his super new book, "The Mission." This is going to be good! @lucatrenta.bsky.social @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social .

The bunker is more vulnerable to penetration now and will be as long as the new palace is under construction. Another counterintelligence nightmare created by Trump in what Bill Burns calls the "strategic self-immolation" of the US national securty and intelligence architecture erected since 1945.

We'll start at 2:30, done before 4 pm Friday.

Tim Weiner, Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 22/09/2025 · 52m

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his new book The Mission: the CIA in the 21st century for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here:

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Can't cancel this, Mr. President!

WIT 2025: Tim Weiner and James Lawler in Conversation with Garrett M. Graff - The Authors Guild Intelligence fails because it is human. What role does the CIA play in U.S. foreign policy and in keeping Americans safe at home and abroad? Acclaimed journalist Tim Weiner, whose Legacy of Ashes is t...

Tickets are going fast for the Wit Literary Festival -- with the legendary CIA officer Jim "Mad Dog" Lawler, the great author and journalist @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff, and yours truly -- Friday 9/26 in Lenox, MA. Pick up a pair right here!

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The Mission New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 * A New York Times Editors' Choice \"No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has...

I'm off on a book tour! If you can't join, please buy THE MISSION right here. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester VT, 9/20. NextStage, Putney VT 9/21. WiT Festival, Lenox MA, 9/25, Thalia Bookstore, Hamburg, Germany, 10/1, American Library, Paris, France, 10/7. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Straight-up Kremlin propaganda.

Has the CIA lost its way? - ABC listen Founded in 1947, the CIA was established under the mission 'know thine enemy'. Now, under US President Donald Trump, the agency is being gutted. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Tim Weiner, argues t...

Excellent interview on the crisis at CIA.
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YouTube video by Legal AF Trump ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSES Himself in FAILED STUNT

In which Trump is indicted in the court of history.
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A False Report of a Shooter Prompts a Shooting at the U.S. Naval Academy

When future historians chronicle the Second Civil War, they may see this story as a harbinger of what was to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Montana Free Press Fest 2025 Join us Sept. 16-18 in Bozeman, MT for Free Press Fest, a dynamic 3-day journalism conference presenting keynotes, panels, and workshops.

People of Montana! I'll be keynoting the Free Press Fest on September 16, followed by a talk about the state of the nation with former Senator John Tester, at Montana State in Bozeman. Be there or be square!
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CODEWORD.

CODEWORD is my new newsletter on the continuing crisis in American intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free. Here are the first six issues:
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Highly recommend.

The Mission New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 * A New York Times Editors' Choice \"No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has...

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The Department of War The President as Assassin-in-Chief

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