Everything About the Ukraine Leak Is Incredibly Weird
Secrets were “sitting in a … Discord server for a month, and nobody noticed.”
Amy Zegart
Amy Zegart is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science, by courtesy, at Stanford University. She is also a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute and the chair of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence and International Security Steering Committee. She is the author of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. She specializes in U.S. intelligence, emerging technologies and national security, grand strategy, and global political risk
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The Atlantic; Getty The Weapon the West Used Against Putin
The way in which the U.S. disclosed intelligence ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could drastically change geopolitics in the future.
The Atlantic How Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence
Espionage-themed entertainment is influencing policy makers, from soldiers fighting on the front lines to justices sitting on the nation’s highest court.
FOX / Everett; Amazon / Everett; Universal / Everett; The Atlantic American Spies Are Fighting the Last War, Again
When the Cold War ended, the intelligence community failed to adapt. Today it faces a similar challenge.
Cedric von Niederhausern / The Atlantic None of My Students Remember 9/11
For coming generations of students, September 11 is history rather than memory. How does that affect how they learn about it?
Adam Maida Everybody Spies in Cyberspace. The U.S. Must Plan Accordingly.
Because all countries engage in espionage, intrusions like Russia’s latest data hack are devilishly hard to deter.
The Atlantic The Race for Big Ideas Is On
The United States faces genuinely new global challenges—but tries to understand them using outmoded theories from a bygone era.
Jason Lee / Reuters The Self-Appointed Spies Who Use Google Earth to Sniff Out Nukes
Nuclear intelligence isn’t just for government agencies anymore. A motley crew of outside watchdogs has found creative ways to deter proliferation.
Alexander Steam / Timofeev Vladimir / Dean Drobot / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Whistle-Blower Really Knows How to Write
As an intelligence report, the complaint against Trump holds up well. The author carefully explained where the information came from and left investigators a number of concrete leads.
Jim Bourg / Reuters In the Deepfake Era, Counterterrorism Is Harder
After failing to detect the 9/11 plot, spy agencies reinvented themselves for an age of terrorism, but a new generation of technological threats requires a new round of reforms.
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