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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.

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08 June 2017

There has been a lot of media coverage mostly written by Israelis or American Jews regarding Israel’s...

16 May 2017

Intelligence agencies and senior government officials tend to use a lot of jargon. Laced with acronyms, this language sometimes does not translate very well...

12 May 2017

The United Nations Charter, to which all member states are signatories and which prevails over all other treaties and agreements,...

10 May 2017

The firing of FBI Director James Comey may have been a surprise to some, most particularly in the media, but there was a certain inevitability about it...

23 April 2017

Sounds like we’ve heard it all before, because we have, back in August 2013, and that turned out to be less than convincing. Skepticism is likewise mounting...

15 April 2017

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) concluded its annual conference late last month, triggering the usual debate in various...

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