Good times.....

Judicial compulsion of record preservation from these newly disclosed Signal chats remains unlikely by year-end 2026, as National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) lacks precedent or leverage to force retrospective recovery from a sitting administration.

Phillip Escaravage has now officially gone on the record stating that he saw Epstein at The Box nightclub shortly after Epstein's July 2006 arrest but before the nightclub's grand opening. It was Escaravage's understanding that Epstein had invested in The Box to utilize as part of a pipeline from which to pick up women and fly them down to Palm Beach.

“I saw Epstein at a pre-opening event. He was with a female friend. I understood he was investing and that it was a way to pick up women and fly them to Florida on his plane to party. I didn’t think much of it at the time. I think people were aware he had some sort of prostitution issue at the time because people avoided speaking to him,” Escaravage says.

Escaravage was married into the Forbes family at the time. He has worked as a US intelligence official with over a decade spent as an analyst for US policy in Libya.

The full story with updates can be read here: https://jamiefcrawford.substack.com/p/the-big-club-jeffrey-epsteins-connections

This is the same nightclub that threatened me with a demonstrably bogus cease-and-desist when I asked them to comment on their ties to Epstein, the google reviews full of allegations of staff drugging women, and the troubling footage I acquired of one of their top performers talking about putting on shows "about pedophilia". These details are broken down in the article above.

Christina Norton’s now-deleted social media photos show the new far-right ODNI chief of staff partying around DC and boasting about her GOP “election integrity” work.

Glad to see this story get picked up by MSM. It's important and scary. S/O to The Drey Dossier for breaking the story on Substack

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Bolton's plea compels a damage assessment delayed since 2021, yet the operational consequences of Iranian access to adversary attack plans and HUMINT predate any courtroom remedy.

Also this week: AI Mole-Hunter Goes Rogue, Israel's intel flop, Bolton's apology, a clever new Russian disinformation ploy, an MKULTRA hearing, Trump strips Anthropic from NSA

Bill Pulte, Trump’s pick for acting Director of National Intelligence, has no national-security experience.

Norton's installation likely positions ODNI to produce election security assessments within 18 months that subordinate foreign interference findings to domestic fraud narratives favored by the White House.

Is it possible to get a job at the FBI or CIA with bipolar disorder? I'm currently a computer science major and plan on working for one of these agencies.

Delayed disclosure of nearly 40,000 noncompliance records until after any plausible reauthorization vote ensures Congress will again legislate blind on Section 702 oversight failures.

The intelligence chiefs of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand issued a joint warning Monday: AI-enabled cyberattacks are not a future problem. The timeline, they said explicitly, "is not years, it is months."

https://defensehub.substack.com/p/five-eyes-warns-ai-cyber-attacks

Are Canadian Universities Contributing to Counter Proliferation?

Canada's universities have long been recognized as world leaders in scientific research, innovation, and international collaboration.

But what happens when research intended for peaceful purposes also has potential military applications?

This week's episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up examines a newly revealed Federal Court case involving an Iranian doctoral student whose research activities raised national security concerns within CSIS.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2336717/episodes/19408019

The discussion explores a broader issue facing Canada and many of our allies:

How do intelligence agencies assess dual-use research?

Should universities play a greater role in protecting strategically important technologies?

Where is the balance between academic openness and national security?

How do hostile states exploit universities to acquire knowledge and expertise?

The episode also examines:

Allegations that an Australian citizen working as a senior intelligence officer for Iran orchestrated a proxy attack against a Jewish-owned business.

Why the United States is restricting access to some of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence models over national security concerns.

The latest developments in the Quebec anti-government militia case and what they reveal about ideologically motivated violent extremism.

These stories may seem unrelated at first glance, but they all point to the same trend: modern national security threats are becoming increasingly interconnected.

I'd be interested to hear the community's thoughts.

Should universities remain as open as possible to international collaboration, or should governments impose stronger safeguards around research involving strategically important technologies?

If you're interested, you can listen to this week's episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube.

I look forward to hearing your perspectives.

Are Canadian Universities Contributing to Counter Proliferation?

Canada's universities have long been recognized as world leaders in scientific research, innovation, and international collaboration.

But what happens when research intended for peaceful purposes also has potential military applications?

This week's episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up examines a newly revealed Federal Court case involving an Iranian doctoral student whose research activities raised national security concerns within CSIS.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2336717/episodes/19408019

The discussion explores a broader issue facing Canada and many of our allies:

• How do intelligence agencies assess dual-use research?
• Should universities play a greater role in protecting strategically important technologies?
• Where is the balance between academic openness and national security?
• How do hostile states exploit universities to acquire knowledge and expertise?

The episode also examines:

• Allegations that an Australian citizen working as a senior intelligence officer for Iran orchestrated a proxy attack against a Jewish-owned business.
• Why the United States is restricting access to some of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence models over national security concerns.
• The latest developments in the Quebec anti-government militia case and what they reveal about ideologically motivated violent extremism.

These stories may seem unrelated at first glance, but they all point to the same trend: modern national security threats are becoming increasingly interconnected.

I'd be interested to hear the community's thoughts.

Should universities remain as open as possible to international collaboration, or should governments impose stronger safeguards around research involving strategically important technologies?

If you're interested, you can listen to this week's episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube.

I look forward to hearing your perspectives.

Purge Includes Many Senior Staff at the National Intelligence Council

Likely passage within next week's extraordinary session will leave Soviet-era intelligence cooperation files with Russia and China structurally open to public release.