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The View From Spain

How Do You Spy When the World Is Shut Down? (Lawfare)

Why the 2020 Election Will Be a Mess Part II: Beyond Russian Disinformation (Just Security)

Why the 2020 Election Will Be a Mess: It’s Just Too Easy for Putin (Just Security)

Why We Write: Craft Essays On Writing War (Military Writers Guild Anthology)

Republicans are Playing a Dangerous Game (Just Security)

Clear Goal of Barr/Durham Probe is to Scare Off Intelligence Community (Just Security)

The Unraveling of a Don’s Family (The Center for Public Integrity)

Putin won the battle, but the outcome of the war is still uncertain. (The Center for Public Integrity)

Was Russia’s 2016 intervention for Trump a strategic failure? (Vox)

What Was the Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Really Up To? A Former Spy Helps Us Figure It Out. (POLITICO Magazine)

Like any good spy story, the Barr account of the Mueller report contains mysteries (The Center for Public Integrity)

Why Trump’s “no collusion” victory lap is premature (Vox)

The Trump team’s persistent lying about Russia creates counterintelligence challenge (The Center for Public Integrity)

Trump got the National Enquirer to bury his secrets. Did he do the same with Putin? (The Center for Public Integrity)

Did Someone Plant a Story Tying Paul Manafort to Julian Assange? (POLITICO Magazine)

Russian money and influence have poured through cracks in the U.S. legal wall (The Center for Public Integrity)

How Russian money and influence slipped through cracks in the US legal system (Vox)

Manafort’s guilty plea goes to the heart of the Russian intelligence operation in 2016 (The Center for Public Integrity)

A former spy explains why Manafort is crucial to Mueller’s Russia investigation (Vox)

Putin Had A Win-Win Strategy For Life Post-2016; Trump, Not So Much (Just Security)

Why Russians Keep Visiting Mariia Butina In Prison (POLITICO Magazine)

How America Played Right Into Mariia Butina’s Hands (POLITICO Magazine)

Can An Insider Save CIA From Itself? (Just Security)

Collusion Doesn’t Have To Be Criminal (Just Security and Slate)

Titles In Usama Bin Laden’s Porn Collection (Medium)

What About Election Meddling By U.S. Intelligence? (The Cipher Brief)

The Recruitables: Why Trump’s Team Was Easy Prey for Putin (POLITICO Magazine)

Wrongful Termination Letter Filed By Lulu, The CIA Dog Who Was Fired (Medium)

IRAN: THEY THINK WE’RE GREAT!

Donald Trump’s “Mohammed Is An OK Guy” Speech (Funny or Die)

ISIS Backtracks On Plan To Make Raqqa A Smart City After Wikileaks Reveals CIA Cyber Capabilities (Medium)

How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying (POLITICO Magazine)

Europe, this time we’re counting on you to save us (Politico.eu) (Sonntag – in German)

High Heels, Wigs, and Flamboyant Robes (or…Dictators)

A Brief Tour of the Intelligence Community (Overt Action)

The Intelligence Community: Smart People Looking At Computers

Are Management Consultants Ruining CIA?

What the Levinson Case Tells Us About CIA

Here’s What Happened When Three CIA Officers Played Homeland: The Game (Slate)

I’m Not An Expert, But I Play One On TV (Medium)

General Petraeus Asks Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri for Help Defeating ISIS (Medium)

Other Documents Collected During Abbottabad Raid that Killed Bin Laden (Medium)

Boko Haram’s Application to Join the Islamic State (Funny or Die)

Zawahiri Releases Management Notice to Curb Defections to Islamic State (Medium)

U.S. Government to Drop Tons of Reports on Terrorists in New Phase of War on Terror (Medium)

ISIS Responds to CIA’s Twitter Parody Account (Medium)

Jihadi Cosmo: Looking for Mr. (Extremely Far) Right? Here’s How to Find Your Own Personal Caliph! (Medium)

School Doesn’t Allow 4-Year-Old to Eat Oreos Her Mom Packed in Her Lunchbox (Medium)

Summer Crafts for Your Kids Using Your Empty Wine Bottles (Reductress)

Cute Swimsuit Accessories to Lose at the Beach (Reductress)

5 Ways to Spread Kindness…and the Flu! (Reductress)

Is Your Boyfriend Distant or Is He Actually Out of Town? (Reductress)

Playful Pole Dances that Remind Him You’re Still the Mother of His Children (Reductress)

Plan an Ebola-Themed Haunted House for Neighborhood Kids (Reductress)

Is It Safe to Leave My Laptop Here to Go Order a Latte? (Reductress)

I Discovered My Dishwasher Was Actually a Human Being (Reductress)

Quick Tips for Organizing Your Closet and Destroying ISIS (Reductress)

How to Show Your Confidence for the Job You Know You Won’t Get (Reductress)

Sex Secrets He’ll Wish You Had Kept Secret (Reductress)

Technology and Consultants Won’t Save CIA. Only Humans Can. (Overt Action)