Author Archives: Philip Giraldi
About Philip Giraldi
Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London. In addition to TAC, where he has been a contributing editor for nine years, he writes regularly for Antiwar.com. He is currently Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and resides with his wife of 32 years in Virginia horse country close to his daughters and grandchildren. He has begun talking far too much to his English bulldog Dudley of late, thinks of himself as a gourmet cook, and will not drink Chardonnay under any circumstances. He does not tweet, and avoids all social media.
Spycraft in Moscow
The wigs may seem silly, but Moscow’s exposure of CIA espionage is serious business.
CIA Pays the Potentate
Afghanistan’s problems can’t be solved by bribing President Karzai
Drones for “Regime Protection”
The CIA’s insurance plan for Karzai and Maliki—and what it means for Syria
A Necessary Reckoning With Torture
The Constitution Project’s report on detainee treatment is but a first step toward the truth—and reclaiming our national honor.
Turkey Cracks the Whip
If Netanyahu wants rapprochement with Ankara, he must do more than apologize for the Mavi Marmara killings
Sex and the CIA
Spies aren’t apt to be philanderers—even if there are plenty of both at the Agency.
Gulf States Buy Egyptian Riots
Is Saudi money undermining Cairo’s Morsi government?
Who’s Turning Syria’s Civil War Into a Jihad?
The West, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia all have their own angles in the conflict
CIA After the War on Terror
John Brennan knows there’s more to intelligence than drones.
A Critical Look at Rand Paul
He’s made his foreign-policy speech, but what does the senator’s record show?
Drone Doubts at the CIA
A report on the post-Petraeus CIA and jihadist “refugees” in Turkey.
Rubin & Cohen: No Soldiers Need Apply
Neocons denigrate Chuck Hagel’s military service, when it’s exactly what the Pentagon needs.
A Football Interlude
Professional football is the most popular sport in the United States, judging …
Hagel, Healthcare, and “America’s Military Decline”
A recent op-ed by the New York Times’s compassionate conservative David Brooks …
No Large Buckets in CIA Torture
Sometimes some folks who are supporting the unspeakable do protest too much. …
Why We Hate Them: Arabs in Western Eyes
How films and other media shape an anti-Muslim narrative.
Trial by Jury 2013
Senator Rand Paul is boasting about how he preserved the right of …
Max Puts the Boot In
There was a special Christmas Eve treat in the Washington Post – …
The Torture Chronicle
A classified Senate Intelligence Committee report shows the futility of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Justice Delayed
Most Americans probably assume that once the wheels of government start turning …
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