US capability to combat foreign deception was shut down. Nobody can explain why.

By J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / December 3, 2020 – Without announcement or public directive, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper shut down the intelligence community’s entity that monitored and combated foreign concealment, deception, and disinformation. At a time when disinformation became a major public concern, it is surprising to know … Read more

Strategic disinformation and the 2020 election

By J Michael Waller / American Greatness / November 23, 2020 – Foreign manipulation of America’s 2020 vote count to help Joe Biden is crazy talk. At least that’s what a lot of people believe, with even supporters of President Trump attacking the initial evidence and the messengers. After the debunked Russian collusion narrative, the … Read more

For pro-Biden intelligence veterans, American politics are just another op

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / October 28, 2020 Former vice president Joe Biden showed the world just how politicized and sloppy much of the US intelligence community has become. During his final debate with President Donald Trump, Biden repeatedly called the revelation of his son’s laptop and email contents “Russian disinformation.” … Read more

The Biden scandal isn’t about business deals. It’s about corrupt foreign influence.

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / October 19, 2020 The issue for this election is not whether presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter was involved in sketchy business deals. It’s about whether and how those business deals were criminal attempts to influence the foreign policy of the United States. Most of the … Read more

The Center gave 13 reasons in 2017 for an expanded, bipartisan Russia probe. How did we do?

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / October 18, 2020 More than three years ago, the Center for Security Policy called for expanding bipartisan federal investigations into Russian interference in American politics. That didn’t happen. President Trump’s opposition didn’t want it to. It’s easier than ever to see in hindsight. Studying history, though, … Read more

How to place Putin exactly where we want him

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / March 9, 2020 For all the vitriol and finger-pointing about Russia’s Vladimir Putin manipulating our political system, not a single policymaker or pundit has proposed a coherent strategy to turn the tables against him. “Putin, sadly, has got all of our political class, every single one … Read more

Russia poises to grab Ireland to cut NATO, intercept cables

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / February 20, 2020 The Putin regime has mapped out a plan to invade Ireland, a vital telecommunications and logistics hub linking North America and Europe. Agents of Russia’s GRU military intelligence have been observed for years across Ireland charting its rugged coastline, deep harbors, and … Read more

Waller tells New York Supreme Court: ‘It is safe to say that Guo Wengui is a Communist Chinese spy’

In a motion filed with those of his colleagues, an attorney, two Wall Street Journal reporters, and Dow Jones, Dr Waller explained why the evidence suggests strongly that Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui is a spy for Communist China. Guo, who goes by about 11 other names including Miles Kwok, sued the group for defamation. He … Read more

Guo Wengui: ‘Dissident-hunter, propagandist, and agent in the service of the … Chinese Communist Party’

The Wall Street Journal broke the news that fugitive billionaire Guo Wengui (aka Miles Kwok) is allegedly a spy for the Communist Party of China, and not the dissident he claims to be. The allegation came in a July 19, 2019 counterclaim to a lawsuit that a Guo surrogate brought against a Virginia-based political intelligence … Read more

Russia collusion hoax was a monstrous failure of US intelligence

by J Michael Waller / Daily Caller / March 29, 2019“Far more than a failure of journalism, the Russia collusion narrative was, at its core, a monstrous failure of U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence,” the Center’s J. Michael Waller wrote in the Daily Caller. “All criticism of the news media aside for the moment, the bottom line is … Read more