BIO: J. Michael Waller, author of Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains, is senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and president of Georgetown Research, a political risk and private intelligence company.

Waller worked for the CIA in Central America, did groundbreaking scholarship after the Soviet empire’s breakup, and taught history and methods at America’s premier intelligence schools. His work has appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, The Federalist, and the Wall Street Journal.