Host Jim Lawler sits down with Jeff Stein, the founding editor-in-chief of Spy Talk and a veteran journalist who has covered the intelligence community for over 40 years — and who earlier this year beat back a $1 million defamation suit brought by a Trump administration official. Stein shares his visceral reaction to being served […]

Paul Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda (1933-1945) The most disturbing thing about the elderly German woman I met wasn’t that she admired Hitler. It was that she otherwise seemed perfectly ordinary. Educated. Articulate. Rational. Her devotion was a reminder that authoritarianism doesn’t require irrational people. It requires people who have been persuaded that their […]

For decades, U.S.-South Korean exercises have communicated readiness, resolve, and mutual commitment. Abruptly weakening them—without clear strategy or allied consultation—risks telling North Korea, South Korea, and China something Washington may not intend: that American reliability is conditional. The United States has provided South Korea with extended deterrence for decades, since the two countries signed the […]

THE STEADY STATE ENDORSES JOHNNY OLSZEWSKI FOR MARYLAND’S 2ND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WASHINGTON — The Steady State, an organization of more than 420 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, today endorsed the Hon. Johnny Olszewski for Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District. Johnny Olszewski represents Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District, covering much of […]

THE STEADY STATE ENDORSES TOM PERRIELLO FOR VIRGINIA’S 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WASHINGTON — The Steady State, an organization of more than 420 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, today endorsed Hon. Tom Perriello for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. Tom Perriello is running to represent Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District after […]