Mohammad wanted to get back at his enemies in the regime, by leaking their secrets to me. And he wanted to rekindle his relationship with the CIA, which had not ended on good terms. He was angry. He was determined. And he was desperate. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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I didn't write about Mohammad for a long time. But I always felt obliged to tell his story. Our relationship captures the strange bond that journalists forge with some of their sources--intimate and yet distant. Mohammad was unlike anyone I've known in my career.

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Been trying to write something on this subject for a while but struggling to find the words. The gist is: victims of atrocities are justified in thinking that no one is coming to save them and they must save themselves, by force if needs be. But it is one... www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-learn...

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... thing that the intl community fails in its responsibility to support them in that, but too often it calls it terrorism and actively attempts to thwart it. We're still trapped in WoT era thinking, not true then or now, that the state is always the good guy and the NSAGs always the bad.

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I & others have long argued that atrocity prevention is about applying a lens of power to violence & understanding asymmetric violence requires an asymmetric response. But post WoT the asymmetry is often the reverse of what it should be: supporting the "legitimate" violence of the state against the

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