Stevenson’s army, August 8

– Brent Scowcroft, the revered model for National Security Adviser and for his NSC system, has died at 95.  SAIS PhD John Gans has an appreciation.  As does author of NSC books David Rothkopf.  The Scowcroft Center at the Atlantic Council has additional articles.  I got to know and admire him while working on the Project on National Security Reform in 2006-2008. We agreed on most things, except he fiercely objected to my proposal that the NSA should be Senate-confirmed.
– A senior intelligence official has now publicly confirmed that Russia especially is trying to interfere in the US presidential elections. NYT has more background.

– Reporter Robert Draper has a look at the interagency tussle over such intelligence reports.
-NYT disparages national security threats from Tiktok and WeChat

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