3 good reads

“This is Why the World Needs War Photographers,” a blog post from Peta Pixel promoting a short video by Reporters Without Borders on the role photographers play in conflict zones. The number of conflict photographers covering wars has dwindled 40% over the past 15 years, the organization says, but without them, we would never know the realities of war. Governments paint a heroic and rosy picture of war through their official photos and videos, but it’s the front-line photographers that show us the realities of violence, injustice, and suffering. Renowned war photographer James Nachtwey says: “I have been a witness, […]

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The Art of Intelligence

In The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service, Henry Crumpton recounts a conversation he had with Cofer Black, the former Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, just days after the 9/11 attacks. In the conversation, Black detailed the many advance warnings the CIA had given to President Bush and administration officials that an Al Queda attack in the United States was imminent. Referring to the infamous daily briefing report given to President Bush on August 8, 2001 titled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in the U.S.,” Crumpton writes: I later studied the document and […]

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