Michael Isikoff

Tulsi Gabbard and I were in Damascus to meet with Bashar al-Assad within a couple of weeks of each other in 2017. We came away with very different takes. spytalk.co/p/tulsi-gabbar…

Great discussion with the awesome @allisongill about the death of Bob Mueller, his record at the FBI and special counsel, Trump’s sickening reaction, the Iran war and our upcoming @talk_spy podcast with a CIA paramilitary officer

🚨New #Beans ☕️ with @MuellerSheWrote & @DGComedy #MSWMedia Guest: @Isikoff Listen: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/episodes/all-r…

Here’s another “gift” Iran could offer to help settle the war spytalk.co/p/could-al-qae…

Quoted in @Isikoff’s SpyTalk: With Al-Adl at the helm, al-Qaeda is rebuilding, not as a loose ideological movement but as a durable, professional military enterprise,” Sara Harmouch, a counter-terror researcher who has consulted with & briefed multiple US national security agencies & the United Nations on terrorism & al-Qaeda, wrote in an article for @WarInstitute. In July 2023, Harmouch notes, al-Adl’s focus on WMD “to deter criminals in America, Europe, Russia & others.” Al-Adl advocated “dirty wars,” including poisoning wells & food supplies or contaminating them with bacteria to sicken enemy forces spytalk.co/p/could-al-qae…

Oddly, there was been hardly any mention of late that Iran is harboring the current leader of Al Qaeda, Saif Al-Adel, long on the FBI's most wanted list. Some counterterror analysts think he could be part of deal to end the war. My latest in @talk_spy spytalk.co/p/could-al-qae…

Revealing comments from ex-CIA Iran operative @ReuelMGerecht on @talk_spy pod. Though a longtime advocate of regime change, he sees no off-ramp in sight. "What you're now looking at is a perpetual war," he says.

For a somewhat different perspective about what the Epstein files show -- and don't show-- from a former federal prosecutor. politico.com/news/magazine/…

@jaysbookman Talk about missing the point!

This is just dumb. Are we truly to believe that Trump would not be bombing Iran if Obama had not issued some memo 13 years ago? Do you think the man feels bound by some legal niceties?

Slippery Slope Dept.: How an Obama-era drone memo may have given legal cover for Trump to attack Iran. @talk_spy spytalk.co/p/an-imminent-…

Re-upping from November spytalk.co/p/kash-patel-w…

Freedom of speech and the right to privacy are under attack by the Trump administration. I spoke to @Isikoff about why every American needs to know what NSPM-7 is and how it impacts them.

In interview with @talk_spy @RepMGS - who last week pressed AG Bondi on a secret "domestic terror" list-explains why a Trump memo, NSPM-7, could presage a crackdown on political dissent "more disturbing" than McCarthyism. spytalk.co/p/pennsylvania…

New @talk_spy 🕵🏼‍♀️ podcast with hosts @SpyTalker, @karengreenberg3 & @Isikoff #SpyTalk #MSWMedia Guest: @LarryPfeifferDC Listen: redcircle.com/shows/d7fabfc8…

Tulsi Gabbard’s “major league head fake”

.@DNIGabbard claimed she showed up for the FBI search in Fulton County because she has "robust authority" to oversee matters involving "foreign intelligence threats" to elections. Today, the affidavits supporting the search were unsealed- and there is not a word about foreign meddling. Nothing. spytalk.co/p/gabbards-cla…

Fascinating @nytimes account how high tech drones are driving the death count in Sudan’s civil war. nytimes.com/2026/02/01/wor… via @NYTimes

What exactly was DNI Gabbard doing at the FBI search in Fulton County? It’s “outrageous and a significant abuse of power,” say Steven Cash, director of The Steady State, a group of more than 380 former top national security and intelligence officials. “DNI has no law enforcement powers and certainly no mandate to assist in the continued Presidentially directed fraud.” spytalk.co/p/tulsi-gabbar…

Gabbard was frozen out of Venezuela planning & WH aides joked DNI stood for Do Not Invite. But she may have wormed her way back into POTUS good graces by showing up at Fulton Co search. @talk_spy open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/…

I had a great discussion with @thelauracoates last night on the startling FBI search of Fulton County election ballots from the 2020 election.