Frank SneppIn Praise Of Biden’s Afghan End Game: The Critics Got it WrongAuthor’s Note: I was never an eyewitness to the Afghan war. But as the CIA’s last intelligence analyst in Saigon, with nearly six years of…Dec 13, 2022Dec 13, 2022
Frank SneppEd Snowden’s Act Two: The Slippery Morality of WhistleblowingThough I too was once reviled by the U.S. intelligence community as a faithless leaker and turncoat, Edward Snowden and I don’t have much…Dec 13, 2022Dec 13, 2022
Frank SneppWhat Vietnam Taught Us About AfghanistanA lot of young reporters and budding military historians who wouldn’t know a Chinook from a Polish sausage are suddenly coming out of…Sep 9, 2022Sep 9, 2022
Frank SneppHolding Trump Accountable for Abusing US Secrets: the Supreme Court Points the WayThe intelligence community and all sane citizens and allies of the United States are rightly freaking out about the implications of the…Aug 17, 2022Aug 17, 2022
Frank SneppHolding Trump Accountable for Abusing US Secrets: the Supreme Court Points the WayThe intelligence community and all sane citizens and allies of the United States are rightly freaking out about the implications of the…Aug 16, 2022Aug 16, 2022
Frank SneppWoodward’s Way: A Devil’s BargainThe right honorable author of the groundbreaking, invaluable new book titled “Rage” exemplifies what some of us see as an unfortunate…Sep 12, 2020Sep 12, 2020
Frank SneppGlimpses of Star Reporters In A Golden Age of Investigative JournalismIn 1984, just before joining USC’s School of Journalism, forerunner of the Annenberg School, I tried to burnish my credits as “Otis…Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020
Frank SneppA CIA whistleblower looks at how the Putin bounty story leaked — and how Trump brushed it off.Secrets and Spies: Russian Bounties with Frank SneppJul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020
Frank SneppPutin’s Bounties, Trump’s Indifference, And the Spies Who Blew the WhistleI call it “Mutiny Over the Bounty” with apologies to the real-life Captain Bligh and his unruly crew.Jul 11, 2020Jul 11, 2020