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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

The president is a war criminal. Read all about it in CODEWORD, my new newsletter. Subscribe! It's free.
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Not to mention everything about inteligence, foreign policy, and national security.

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

The president is a war criminal. The case against him is here, in my new newsletter, CODEWORD. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-depart...

What’s the CIA really been up to since 9/11? 🤔

Find out Tue, Sept 9, 7pm ET with Tim Weiner & NPR’s Greg Myre. In Arlington or on YouTube livestream.

Stick around for the reception + book signing!

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Words do not deter Putin. He understands the logic of force, not the force of logic.

Putin tried to kill the leader of the EU. Part of his 20-year campaign of sabotage and subversion in European nations. Americans need to wake up to the nature of Trump's alliance with him. At the edge of the horizon of what's possible? A secret pact to carve up Europe. Echoes of Hitler and Stalin.

CIA had the junta well-wired at the time; they were working together to train the contras in Central America, though the Argentines were a tad too bloodthirsty for CIA. Even so, murdering hundreds of US and UK citizens? A single-source report, and, as British journos would say, interesting if true.

Book review - The Mission: The CIA in the Twenty-First Century In 2007’s Legacy of Ashes, New York Times journalist Tim Weiner produced an influential history of the CIA from its foundation. The Mission brings that story up to date, and while the two books overla...

A five-star review by Tom Griffin of The Mission: The CIA in the Twenty-First Century. open.substack.com/pub/intellig...

Vanishing America A Nation Under Attack From Within

The nation we knew is being demolished. Read all about it in "Vanishing America," the latest edition of my new newsletter, CODEWORD, a chronicle of intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free.
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