Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials

Nuclear Proliferation

2018-05-06 / www.newyorker.com

In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal. Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser to President Barack Obama and a prominent advocate of the Iran nuclear deal. ...

Palantir Knows Everything about you

Software

2018-04-19 / www.bloomberg.com

Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.

High above the Hudson River in downtown Jersey City, a former U.S. Secret Service agent named Peter Cavicchia ...

The UK hid the story of a Soviet spy for 70 years because they felt silly for hiring him

Espionage

2018-03-22 / www.qz.com

As the US embarks upon a new and tense phase of relations with Russia, the UK has fresh reason to be thinking about Soviet-era politics. Formerly classified documents reveal that the British Foreign Office ignored some very clear red flags ...