Dispatches

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating When did the Secret Service stop placing snipers on top of sloped roofs? The question stems from comments by Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, explaining why her agency did not secure what became a hostile sniper’s nest at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania. During the …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Some have suggested that Tehran was behind the July 13 effort to kill Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. Here at Soldier of Fortune, we don’t see Iran’s handiwork – this time. But, like U.S. intelligence officials, we do see a window of increased threat from Iran against …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The Secret Service must answer questions openly and fully – and to examine whether it encourages a culture that rejects scrutiny, and that wants outsiders to “shut up.” Serious questions persist about the attack against Donald Trump on July 13, when a triggerman tried to assassinate …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating An agent messaged me privately, accusing journalists of “creating hate” with “mass negative media.” Serious, troubling questions surround the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump. So far, I don’t have answers from officials; but I have been privately scolded by a Secret Service agent for …

The group posted the vid on the anniversary of Prigozhin’s ill-fated march on Moscow. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Remember this? The coup that wasn’t, only a year ago in Russia? The alleged coup-master, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has since died in a baffling plane crash. But today the self proclaimed descendants of …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating We thought we were being informative, but maybe we missed something. We wanted to show that soldiers do more than the high profile kinetic stuff, and that sometimes their work is mundane. Such as, when they fill sandbags. We posted this little clip, below, on …

Mail drop! Here’s the latest peek into our inbox at Soldier of Fortune. Send us a note, and you, too, might appear in a future edition of Mail Drop! Vomiting in the Balkans Susan: Hey I saw what you wrote about working on a story in Dubrovnik and then vomiting …

My own inquiry shows so far that this tragedy was incredibly sad, but not nefarious. ANALYSIS by Susan Katz Keating I frequently remind readers that when following current events, be mindful that first reports often are incomplete, misleading, or even wrong. This is one of those times. Alarming news emerged Thursday …

A JFK-style hit, where a sniper takes aim from afar, is not the only type of assassination that threatens a political leader’s life. ANALYSIS by Susan Katz Keating Important first lessons emerge from today’s assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Grainy footage from the attack seems to show that …

Wagner Group has been getting increased attention in the wake of a recent article that says they are chasing the depleted warlord Joseph Kony in Africa. I don’t buy that story, and I’m not convinced re this new vid. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating A video on a Russian secure …