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.
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 …
Islamophobia Is Still a Republican Value
It is perhaps a given that the Republicans will draw all the …
Cultural Changes at CIA
It is being reported that recently rusticated CIA Director David Petraeus annoyed …
The Forever Wars of Frederick & Kimberly Kagan
The Beltway power couple who boosted the Iraq invasion insist we stay longer in Afghanistan.
Is Iron Dome the Maginot Line?
An interesting article in The New York Times, “Israel’s Antimissile System Attracts …
CIA’s Benghazi Role
Intelligence agents answer to Langley, not the State Department.
The Iran Problem is an Israel Problem
On Sunday the Washington Post featured an op-ed “What Bill Clinton can …
Sibel Edmonds’s Secrets
The gagged whistleblower takes on FBI corruption in a new book.
A Fair and Balanced Briefing on Gaza
A memo dated today is circulating among the members of the House …
It’s Only Sex, Apparently
Sunday’s Washington Post featured an op-ed by John Prados, described as a …
Four New Jersey Vignettes
We had a death in the family and had to go up …
Coming to Terms With the Taliban
Washington punts in Afghanistan
More on Petraeus
Nearly everyone commenting on the rapidly expanding Petraeus story is missing the …
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