Waller addresses Harvard panel on denial & deception in arms control

Denial and deception are part and parcel of nuclear arms control processes and negotiations, the Center’s J. Michael Waller said on a Harvard panel January 14. Denial and deception, or D&D, is a Western term to describe concealment (denial) and the spectrum of efforts to mislead other about capabilities, strategies, and intentions (deception). Waller addressed … Read more

‘I was known as Comrade Barbara.’ Now, Congresswoman Barbara Lee controls the State Department budget

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / January 26, 2021 – Congresswoman Barbara Lee was the sole Member of Congress to vote against using military force against terrorists after the September 11, 2001 al Qaeda attack. This week the 12-term Lee assumed chairmanship of the House subcommittee in charge of the State Department … Read more

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 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

Russian conspiracy theorist now echoes Chinese regime

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / May 12, 2020 – A prominent pundit who pushed the discredited Russia collusion conspiracy theory is now promoting a range of well-established Chinese propaganda themes about the coronavirus. Soviet import Max Boot reinforced and laundered a range of Chinese Communist Party propaganda and disinformation themes … Read more

Wuhan Virus is China’s Chernobyl, Waller tells ‘China Unscripted’ podcast

The probable leak of the coronavirus from a Wuhan laboratory is China’s version of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl that led to the Soviet collapse, the Center’s J Michael Waller says on the “China Unscripted” podcast. The 1986 radioactive accident and the Soviet Communist Party’s coverup widened fissures throughout the Soviet system, ultimately leading to … Read more

How an American businessman launders the Chinese regime’s propaganda line

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / May 2, 2020 – The Chinese regime depends on foreigners to launder its propaganda to mask the original source. Many of these transmission belts are subtle. Peter B. Walker of the McKinsey & Company management consulting firm, may have set a new record for propaganda-laundering. Writing in the … Read more

China again accuses US military of spreading virus, but won’t allow probe of pandemic’s origin

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / April 29, 2020 – While accusing the US military again of causing and spreading the global pandemic, the Chinese government is getting tough on anyone who proposes an independent investigation into how it actually began. China, the regime says, is not an initiator of disinformation, … Read more