“Agency heads at the time created a politically charged environment that triggered an atypical analytic process around an issue essential to our democracy.”
CIA Director John Ratcliffe (July 2, 2025)
July 6, 2025 — This week, the CIA concluded a critical internal review casting serious doubts on the integrity of past intelligence narratives—highlighting strong circumstantial evidence that former CIA Director John Brennan played a central role in shaping, and possibly fabricating, key political allegations. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a nuclear weapon.”
General Dwight Eisenhower
August 10 2025 — Eight decades have passed since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). The true motivations behind these attacks remain fiercely debated among historians. What is certain is that prominent U.S. military leaders — including General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral William D. Leahy — opposed their use. Recently declassified documents suggest that, much like the unnecessary devastation of Dresden, the atomic bombings were driven less by military necessity than by a desire to send a chilling warning to the Soviet Union. As grim as it is to acknowledge, that may be the closest we have to the truth. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.”
Reuters (July 30 2021)
August 10 2021 — FBI forensic scientists have estimated that around 552 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded on August 4 2020 in the Port of Beirut, much less than the 2,754 tonnes that arrived on a Russian-leased cargo ship in 2013. Reuters, The Guardian, and other MSM are reporting this nonsensical junk-science report without even consulting scientific experts. Let me be very clear. This is total nonsense. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
“If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.”
Sir Roger Casement
Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week of April 1916.
August 3 2020 — Sir Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) was an Irish nationalist who worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a humanitarian activist, poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru.
In April 1916, Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. But sometimes, even a death sentence can be ridiculously hilarious. Roger Casement himself wrote that he was to be “hanged on a comma”, leading to the well-used epigram. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today
“We can call them ‘false positives’ or ‘extrajudicial executions’, but really these were cold-blooded murders. They were meticulously planned and carried by all ranks.” Blind Obedience in Fictitious Battlefields
October 8 2016 — Juan Manuel Santos was appointed Minister of Defence on July 19, 2006, under President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. He served in that role until May 2009, during the height of the government’s so-called “democratic security” policy — a period now infamous for the false positives scandal, in which thousands of civilians were extrajudicially killed by the military and falsely reported as guerrillas to inflate combat kill statistics. Members of the armed forces, who carried out these executions to boost body counts, could then claim promotions, leave, and other rewards from the government. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“There would be no place to hide.If this government ever became a tyranny… the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
Senator Frank Church (1975)
July 24, 2025 — In 1975, the Church Committee exposed two decades of covert abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. Half a century later, 2025 is shaping up to be a sequel few expected—and no one dares to name. With newly declassified documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a Justice Department probe, and mounting claims that the intelligence community manipulated the 2016 election narrative for political ends, Washington is once again reckoning with the power of the spy apparatus at home.
Back then, it was wiretaps, blackmail, assassinations, and secret wars. Today, it’s the weaponization of intelligence—FISA warrants, cyber surveillance, and information warfare. Once again, the trust between citizens and the “deep state” is fractured. The tools have changed, but the questions are hauntingly familiar: Who holds the intelligence agencies accountable? And once again, we the people are forced to ask: Who watches the watchers? Follow us on X (formerly Twitter): @Intel_Today
“We can call them ‘false positives’ or ‘extrajudicial executions’, but really these were cold-blooded murders. They were meticulously planned and carried by all ranks.” Blind Obedience in Fictitious Battlefields
The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.
October 8 2016 — Juan Manuel Santos was appointed Minister of Defence on July 19, 2006, under President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. He served in that role until May 2009, during the height of the government’s so-called “democratic security” policy — a period now infamous for the false positives scandal, in which thousands of civilians were extrajudicially killed by the military and falsely reported as guerrillas to inflate combat kill statistics. Members of the armed forces, who carried out these executions to boost body counts, could then claim promotions, leave, and other rewards from the government. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“Yeah, we’ve got our black ops all over the world, from Kazakhstan to Bombay; (…) Need a country destabilized? Look no further, we’re your guys!”
“Weird Al” Yankovic “Party In The CIA”
March 27 2022 — Thank God, It’s [Parody] Sunday! Time to have some fun! “Party in the CIA” is the seventh track off of Weird Al’s 2011 album, Alpocalypse. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
“This story is demented and broken on so many levels (…) An excellent Wikipedia administrator [Linda Mack] has been victimized by lunatic conspiracy theorists.”
Jimmy Wales Wikipedia co-founder (July 26 2007)
July 26, 2025 — On July 26, 2007, I published an article highlighting suspicious edits made to certain Wikipedia entries. The date was not chosen at random. Exactly sixty years earlier, on July 26, 1947, President Harry S. Truman had signed the National Security Act, which established the Central Intelligence Agency. Two decades later, the questions raised by that story remain just as urgent. In an era globally defined by disinformation, this moment marked an early warning. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“It is striking to note the similarity of the ‘scientific’ evidence discovered by the FBI’s Tom Thurman in both the Lockerbie and UTA cases. Of the tens of thousands of pieces of debris collected at each disaster site, one lone piece of printed circuit was found and, miracle of miracles, in each case the fragment bore markings that allowed for positive identification: MEBO in the Lockerbie case and TY in the case of UTA Flight 772. Despite the common findings of the DCPJ, the DST and the Prefecture of Police crime laboratory, Judge Bruguière chose to believe Thurman, the expert in fabricating evidence.”
Pierre Péan African Manipulations
July 25 2019 — Pierre Péan, one of the greatest French investigative journalists, died Thursday July 25 2019. He was 81. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
