12 Comments
Dec 24, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

If only Khashogghi were alive to do the same

Expand full comment
Dec 24, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

I watched both videos, and they were astounding. However, I haven’t seen any reference (aside from here) on news or sm!

Expand full comment
Dec 23, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

<i>I tried to think of a single reason that wouldn’t truly be rejection. I failed.<i>

If it's a man who canceled, it's clearly because such a one cannot stand the pain of reading your words, of experiencing your mind, without also gazing on your beauty, basking in your physical presence.

Yes, such nominal males are weak. But they're not rejecting anything; they're merely denying themselves.

Eric Hines

Expand full comment

Nah, these aren't the same people that pulled off "cyber Pearl Harbor". Hacking is sufficiently popular in Russia that there is never a shortage of good hackers available for secret services (starting with Kaspersky himself, but also lots of new blood recruited off the black market with offers they can't refuse). But as it comes to wetwork, whom are you going to recruit? Gopniks? Low-scale assassins used to working under the cover of local police? Donbass irregulars? Not a great lot of opsec experience around there.

Expand full comment
Dec 23, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

Claire. I'd like to keep up with all this witty reparte', but I can't. You're too amazing a storyteller. I would love to have read your cables back in the day, when you were in the DOO, now know as the NCS.

Expand full comment
author

Well, you can't have those, but you can have the next best thing: https://www.amazon.com/Loose-Lips-Novel-Claire-Berlinski/dp/0812967097

Expand full comment
Dec 23, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

More to the content of this post, it reads like fiction. Is it true? It doesn't seem true. But the whole "Tell me right now you idiot, the boss wants to know!" seems part and parcel to a dictatorial regime. I'm not saying it isn't true, it just seems so "spy movie" to me. And a little junior high. "Put the icy hot in that guys underpants!"

Expand full comment
Dec 23, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

Claire, it seems I CAN leave a comment. So...is there gonna be a website for the Global Cosmo?

Expand full comment
author

Yes! We're working on this now.

Expand full comment
Dec 23, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

Oh hey, there she is. Thanks. Let me know. Make sure I'm the first to know. You can text me. heh heh...

Expand full comment
Dec 23, 2020Liked by Claire Berlinski

This is a comment.

Expand full comment
author

Sure is! Thank you for joining us here!

Expand full comment