‘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

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

Our Antifa study is the #1 Amazon title on terrorism

Our new Antifa monograph ranks #1 on Amazon for new titles about terrorism. Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat, hit the #1 mark within 24 hours of going on sale. It’s an important milestone also because Amazon, the world’s largest bookseller, now recognizes the study of Antifa as a study in terrorism. Center … Read more

‘Commies for Biden’

by J Michael Waller / American Greatness / November 1, 2020 Far from being “spontaneous” or “mythical,” today’s militant political violence is not only organized, it even has user manuals. In destroying statues and other symbols of American history, the new violent extremist movement cultivates its own history:Indoctrinate people without them realizing it, gradually and … 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

Germany updates its report to predict Antifa-related ‘terrorist structures’

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / September 15, 2020 – To understand Antifa and its broader movement free from the lenses of American politics, the German government is very helpful.  German domestic intelligence has a warning: Antifa and its allies are going to get more destructive and more violent.  “There is a … 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

WHO chief pushes Chinese propaganda slogan in attack on United States

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / April 8, 2020 – The World Health Organization’s unprecedented attack on an American president featured a Chinese propaganda term that is now splashed across international headlines. Soon, Chinese propaganda will recycle it as a quote from the United Nations’ health organization, and not from the … Read more

China’s glass house: Beijing is interfering in our 2020 election. What are we going to do about it?

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / April 7, 2020 – The Chinese regime’s secret sponsorship of a paid Facebook campaign to attack President Donald Trump during an election campaign gives the US the right to respond in-kind. Communist China has no elections except to ratify the Party, of course, but its … Read more