I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.

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  For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

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  Intelligence officers are a peculiar lot. Whether they are active or retired, their brains are wire

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  I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to

• Malcolm Nance:

  For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of politi

• Malcolm Nance:

  ISIL is not 'radical Islam.' Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood - these are radical Is

• Malcolm Nance:

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• Malcolm Nance:

  Yes, ISIL is a terror-based insurgent army that seeks to establish a Caliphate, but the group's act

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