Author: Frumentarius

If Mr. Moore had a son fighting for America in a war – admittedly, a ludicrous proposition, no doubt – would he not want those cowardly snipers watching out for his child?

The blood is dry. The victims will be buried soon. The immediate terror has passed, but the deep-seated rage is just settling in and getting comfortable. We are familiar with this progression of emotion here in the United States, as are citizens of London, Madrid, Istanbul, Sydney, and countless other nations across the world. The […]

Five years ago this week, on December 30, 2009, Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi carried out the single most successful direct attack on the American national security operatives responsible for targeting and killing al-Qa’ida members post-9/11, when he detonated his explosive vest within the wire of FOB Chapman—CIA’s Khowst Base—killing five CIA officers […]

The United States and Cuba took definitive steps to end a half-century of animosity and icy relations this holiday season, after reportedly 18 months or so of back-channel discussions between high-level representatives of each country’s presidential administration, as well as the Vatican.  The two countries used the swap of intelligence assets and an American aid […]

According to a December 4, 2014 report in The Hill, a newspaper that covers the goings-on in the U.S. Congress (please, withhold your jokes about it being a one-page newsletter, or a bi-monthly, one-page pamphlet…)

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, according to news reports, is due to release its report on the CIA’s so-called enhanced interrogation program that went into effect in the months following the attacks of 9/11. The imminent release has spurred the U.S. military to warn its forces worldwide to brace for any violent reactions, and the […]

I was deployed in war zones over a couple of Christmases while in the military and the CIA, was stationed in Europe for a Christmas, and I would dare to say that nearly 100 percent of veterans have faced similar Christmases (and other holidays) away from friends and family, and away from their homes in […]

I was pleasantly surprised, and yet simultaneously trepidatious, to read in the Washington Post on November 19th that CIA Director John Brennan was considering sweeping organizational changes to the agency he heads. Let me start by saying that I am not one of those who thinks that the CIA is broken, partisan, or incapable of […]

I am an unapologetic believer in our nation’s national security apparatus, and not just because I was a part of it as an officer in both the U.S. military and the Central Intelligence Agency. I also witnessed, firsthand, the dedication of those in the intelligence- and security-agency trenches, and saw them put their considerable skills to […]

Following Fox News Channel’s interview with self-proclaimed UBL shooter Rob O’Neill, many in the audience, and even in the media, may be curious as to the details of the actual non-disclosure agreement O’Neill likely signed with regards to the operation to capture/kill Usama Bin Laden.  To help clarify this point, allow me to explain how […]

Veteran’s Day has always been the holiday for the “old guys;” those guys in their Vietnam War Vet baseball caps, with leather jackets and old Army unit patches; or the even older World War II vets, with their walkers and slow shuffles.  There are not many of them left, God bless ’em. Veteran’s Day was […]

It took so much more than the final trigger pull to kill Bin Ladin, so why should one SEAL assume the moniker, “The One Who Killed bin Ladin?”