Another happy new paid subscriber to @seandnaylor.bsky.social's and @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social's TheHighSide.substack.com and a nice hat-tip to Sean's book "Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda." (Amazon Associates link: amzn.to/4clGoAK).
I really enjoyed talking about JSOC etc. w/ Nick Smith on The NDS Show. The episode just premiered on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=sEfb.... The show's website (with links to other platforms where you can catch my appearance and all the other episodes) is here:
Another happy new paid subscriber to The High Side with a message apparently intended for @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
(SOFREP reference is the giveaway). Thank you! We couldn't do any of this work without our paid subscribers.
Awesome news. Congratulations to both of you.
We should have added that this work would not be possible without our paying subscribers, to whom we owe great thanks.
Hard-hitting national security and intelligence reporting of the sort @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social do is exceedingly rare these days. Support their work and subscribe to @thehighside.bsky.social.
The High Side covers the dark side. Great reporting. Well-deserved recognition for @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social
We (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social) are thrilled to be announced as finalists for a 2026 Deadline Club award: www.deadlineclub.org/2026-awards-.... Our entry, "Investigative Reporting on the CIA," included three articles, links to which follow:
New article on @thehighside.bsky.social about the rescue mission, including new information about how it went down, the extraction, and the CIA deception plan around it.
thehighside.substack.com/p/downed-f-1...
@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social's appearance on today's Ward Carroll podcast:
www.youtube.com/live/UIfu0oI...
Subscribe to @thehighside.bsky.social I'll write more there.
As @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and I reported here: thehighside.substack.com/p/hunting-bi...
If anyone wants to talk to me about this, I'm available and tracking developments.
The ultimate accolade for @seandnaylor.bsky.social.
Great praise from a paid subscriber and trained military historian. Thank you, Casper! @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social put a lot of work into thehighside.substack.com and we're so glad when those who pay to read that work find it worthwhile.
we're supposed to believe the Trump administration has spent more than a year doing a mass deportation of the worst of the worst criminals, but also there are sleeper cells of undocumented Iranians in the country that constitute a grave national security threat. the math ain't mathing.
@seandnaylor.bsky.social making waves!
Excerpt from the Politico deep-dive into Operation Red Wings by eddarack.bsky.social and Ross Schneiderman w/ a back-handed compliment for me from Naval Special Warfare Command. Article link here: www.politico.com/news/magazin... Amazon Associates link to "Not a Good Day to Die": amzn.to/4sp3OvH
Lots of talk about a possible special ops raid to get Iran’s highly enriched uranium. Ch. 7 of “Relentless Strike” explains how Joint Special Operations Command has been preparing for that sort of mission (the “0400” mission) for decades. Amazon Associates link: amzn.to/4bveWjt
An excerpt from my article on @thehighside.bsky.social expanded in We Defy, about Green Light has been published in a 82nd airborne newsletter.
www.the-canopy.org/archives/202...
Terrific to get this sort of endorsement from a former intelligence officer. Thank you, Stephen! If you want to read the stories that prompted him to become a paid subscriber and endorse us, click here: TheHighSide.substack.com. cc @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social
The JSOC teams that worked alongside the CTPTs’ CIA handlers, providing the link to air support, were called Omega or ANSOF teams, which @seandnaylor.bsky.social and @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social of @thehighside.bsky.social have reported on in detail here:
thehighside.substack.com/p/zeroed-out...
It's always great to get this sort of message from a new paid subscriber. It lets @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social know that we're doing something right. If you want to check out what our new paid subscriber is excited about, click here: thehighside.substack.com
@seandnaylor.bsky.social says the Afghan war documentary “Bodyguard of Lies” is a tragic tale of hubris and missed opportunities but underplays key issues like the role of Pakistan and some questionable decisions made by the Bush administration after 9/11: thehighside.substack.com/p/the-back-b...
In the latest edition of The Back Brief, our reviews section, @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social checks out “Ground Branch,” a game that lets you hunt terrorists and rescue hostages as a CIA paramilitary officer. He likes its accurate details in weapons and tactics. thehighside.substack.com/p/the-back-b...
Going to be interesting when this stuff goes to trial and the government tries to argue that no ICE agent wakes up in the morning plotting to kill someone.
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
