by Piper Bayard | Sep 16, 2013 | Humor, News, PRISM
By Piper Bayard First it was the NSA peeking up our digital skirts, illegally collecting and storing raw intelligence on Americans to paw through at will. Then the other four of the Five Eyes—Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada—crowded up for a glimpse. Then I...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 26, 2013 | Espionage, PRISM
By Piper Bayard In one of my favorite Joss Wheden movies, Serenity, the crew of a small scavenger space ship, Firefly, risks everything to bring the truth to the people of the Alliance about how their government was lying to them and screwing them over. To do this,...
by Piper Bayard | May 29, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Headlines this week are reporting the not-very-new “news” that China is—drumroll and sound track of gasping readers please—stealing US technology and hacking into classified US government computer systems. A secondary aspect of the story focuses on daily...
by Piper Bayard | Nov 14, 2012 | Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn
SKYFALL ReviewBy Piper Bayard & Jay HolmesSKYFALL marks the Golden Anniversary of the Bond series, and it’s raking in the serious gold—for good reason. In this 23rd Bond film, M and MI-6 are under attack, and it’s up to 007 to track down and destroy the threat. He...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 17, 2012 | Book Reviews
By Jay Holmes DOUBLE CROSS addresses one of the more complex and important intelligence operations of World War Two. It explains how the UK’s MI-5 Counter Intelligence division quite effectively turned and managed German spies in an attempt to deceive Germany...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 15, 2012 | Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn
By Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes ARGO movie poster ARGO is a movie thriller based on Operation ARGO, a CIA undertaking lead by CIA employee Tony Mendez to rescue six US Embassy employees who avoided capture by the Iranian criminals who violated the US Embassy in Tehran...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 28, 2012 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, The Cold War
By Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes On Thursday, July 26, news outlets reported that Russia announced intentions to build military bases in Vietnam, the Seychelles, and Cuba. The source of the news was an interview given by Russian Vice Admiral Victor Chirkov to the...
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