by Piper | Aug 26, 2021 | Afghanistan Crisis 2021, Current Affairs, News
~ Piper BayardAugust 26, 2021, Evening in the United StatesNow confirmed 12 US troops were killed in today’s two suicide bombing attacks, eleven US Marines and one US Navy sailor. At least 60 people dead and counting. Over 200 injured. ISIS Khorasan (ISIS-K)...
by Piper | Aug 26, 2021 | Afghanistan Crisis 2021, Current Affairs, News
~ Piper BayardI’ve been compiling news and links on the Afghanistan Evacuation Crisis, arising after President Biden’s withdrawing of the US military ahead of securing any American, NATO, other allied citizens, or our Afghan interpreters, assets, and their...
by Piper | Aug 24, 2021 | Afghanistan Crisis 2021, News
~ Piper BayardI began posting FaceBook updates on the Afghanistan Crisis created by the sudden withdrawal of US troops on August 17. More US troops were sent into Afghanistan to secure the Kabul airport as the Taliban overran the country and the city of Kabul....
by Piper | Jun 30, 2021 | Espionage, Famous Spies, Life and Death, The Cold War
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes Former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Jack Gregory Downing passed away on June 27, 2021, but the words “Jack Downing” will forever live on as an antonym to “politician” in the Intelligence Community’s lexicon. He was selfless,...
by Piper | Mar 1, 2021 | Espionage, Foreign Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper Bayard & Jay HolmesThe assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is once more in the news now that the Biden administration is “recalibrating” the long-standing relationship between the United States and...
by Piper | Feb 11, 2021 | Current Affairs
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper Bayard The TIME Magazine article, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election,” lays out the moves of “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working...
by Piper | Oct 31, 2020 | Love-A-Spook Day
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Back in 2010, we decided that Halloween, with its ghostly trappings, was a great day to honor spooks of the Intelligence Community variety. Thus was born Love-A-Spook Day, which we have used to honor such greats as...
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