‘The Americans’ - Straighten up and spy write

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 20, 2013

Jewish Agency asks Obama to grant clemency to Pollard

Published on February 19, 2013

The Jewish Agency in a resolution called on President Obama to grant clemency to spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard.

Film editor William Goldenberg faces off at the Oscars with…himself

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 7, 2013

Obama nominates Hagel as Defense Secretary, Brennan for CIA

Published on January 7, 2013

President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator, as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to head the CIA, urging the U.S. Senate to confirm them quickly.

Obama to nominate Kerry for sec. of state

Published on December 21, 2012

President Obama is set to nominate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as secretary of state.

Wolpe on Brandon’s Holocaust analogy: ‘It is stupidity on stilts’

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on October 26, 2012

Every now and then we forbid certain things to certain select individuals: Boxers may not use their fists in casual fights; CIA agents may not write freely of their personal experiences. I think it is time for a new restriction: any mention of Hitler, the Holocaust or gas chambers should be legally forbidden to manifest idiots.

Ex-CIA head Woolsey calls for Pollard clemency

Published on July 5, 2012

Being an American Jew has kept Jonathan Pollard in prison for longer than other spies for friendly countries, former CIA head R. James Woolsey wrote in a letter to the editor to The Wall Street Journal.

Learning about Craic with Richard Bangs

By Lisa Niver Rajna
Published on January 23, 2012

Must Read, January 20, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on January 20, 2012

Gilad Shalit and Israeli TV’s Searing ‘Prisoners of War’ [UPDATE/SLIDE SHOW]

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 31, 2011

TV Military Drama ‘Homeland’ Taps Into America’s Psyche

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 19, 2011

CIA director: U.S. was concerned Pakistan may ‘alert targets’ before bin Laden operation

Published on May 3, 2011

U.S. officials were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardize the Osama bin Laden operation and "might alert the targets," CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Tuesday.

CIA paper cites Jewish acts of terrorism

Published on August 26, 2010

A recent CIA paper cited Jewish acts of terrorism in the West Bank in its analysis of whether the United States is an exporter of terrorism.

A Taste of Peace [Recipe] [VIDEO]

By Rob Eshman
Published on July 22, 2010

What’s Behind the Jane Harman Allegations?

Published on April 22, 2009

“This conversation doesn’t exist,” U.S. Rep. Jane Harman allegedly told the person on the other end of the line. Now she wants everyone to know exactly what, if anything, was said.

Report: Ex-CIA Director Asked to Wiretap Jewish Rep.

Published on April 20, 2009

A former CIA director asked for a wiretap on a Jewish congresswoman after she allegedly agreed to intervene on behalf of two indicted former AIPAC staffers.

Justice Arthur Goldberg, baseball’s Joe Berg spied for U.S. during WWII

Published on August 15, 2008

Several prominent Jews spied for the United States during World War II, newly released documents show

Torture: What did we know, and when did we know it?

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on June 27, 2008

Will the Democrats cave on telecom immunity?

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on June 19, 2008

Books: Former CIA analyst details failures in agency actions

By Roberto Loiederman
Published on May 8, 2008

"Failure of Intelligence, The Decline and Fall of the CIA" by Melvin A. Goodman (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).

Briefs: CIA lifts lid on Israeli raid on Syrian reactor; Iranians raze Tehran shuls

Published on May 1, 2008

CIA: Syria Could Have Made Two Nukes


Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor that was nearly ready to produce two bombs, the CIA chief said.


Michael Hayden said Monday that the secret, unfinished reactor that the United States believes Israel bombed Sept. 6 in northeastern Syria eventually would have made fissile material for bombs.

Libby, Judaism and the Leak Probe

By Ron Kampeas
Published on November 10, 2005

When Joshua Muravchik, perhaps the pre-eminent expert on the interventionist foreign policy that has become known as neo-conservatism, was looking for non-Jewish neo-cons to prove that the movement isn't pervasively Jewish, he naturally included Lewis Libby.

FBI Stings Seen as Part of Policy ‘War’

By Edwin Black
Published on January 13, 2005

Last June, leading neoconservative Richard Perle received an unexpected phone call at his home. It was Larry Franklin calling. Franklin is the veteran Iran specialist in the Pentagon's Near East South Asia office and the key Iraq War planner who had been pressured by the FBI into launching a series of counterintelligence stings. Perle, a former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, was an architect of the 2003 Iraq War.

Franklin, who never had phoned before, asked Perle to "convey a message to Chalabi" in Iraq, according to sources aware of the call. Ahmad Chalabi is the embattled president of the Iraqi National Congress. He is currently at the vortex of a Pentagon-intelligence community conflict over pre- and post-war policy, but is still endorsed by neoconservatives, such as Perle.

Something about Franklin's unexpected call struck Perle as "weird," according to the sources. Why was Franklin calling?

CIA Nominee Backs Lesser Mideast Role

By Ron Kampeas
Published on August 19, 2004

Rep. Porter Goss' distance from Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking was likely a plus in securing the nomination to lead the CIA.

In fact, Goss (R- Fla.), President Bush's choice to succeed George Tenet as intelligence director, is about as far from the CIA's peacemaking efforts in the Middle East as Tenet was close to it.

Hamas and the Triple Standard

By Edwin Black
Published on July 3, 2003

When it comes to Israel's fight against Hamas, a triple standard seems at work.

A ‘Barbaric’ Act

By Matthew E. Berger
Published on February 28, 2002

Was Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl killed because he was Jewish?.

World Briefs

Published on January 17, 2002

World Briefs.

The CIA’s Dark Secrets

By Matthew Dorf
Published on April 29, 1999

A Jewish attorney on forced leave from the CIA has decided to file a lawsuit that claims that rampant anti-Semitism at the spy agency has destroyed his career.