Former National Intelligence Officer for Cyber under @realDonaldTrump and @JoeBiden. Personal account full of personal hot takes—can’t stress that enough.

Joined June 2012
65 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
My multi-LLM Structured Analytic Technique @perplexity_ai computer ran against 1,826 unique documents extracted from the Wilson Center Digital Archive's holdings on the Korean War. Sources span Soviet, Chinese, North Korean, Eastern Bloc, and ROC/Taiwan diplomatic and military communications, 1945–1980s. Key Findings (4-model consensus) Biggest SAT delta: US failure to anticipate Chinese intervention (October 1950) — Red Team analysis would have predicted it from available evidence Soviet invasion authorization: Itself an intelligence failure — the September 1949 Politburo correctly vetoed the attack, then Stalin reversed with no refutation of those findings Biological warfare claims: Definitively confirmed as Sino-Korean fabrication by April–May 1953 Beria/Molotov memoranda Eastern Bloc embassies: Highest-quality intelligence service in the corpus (B /A-), outperforming all principal belligerents on post-war assessment. This is a consistent theme across topics and time (Sino-Soviet Split, US NIEs and PDBs). Objectivity and challenge-culture matter more than collection power. 🧵
2
5
16
2,079
Lafayette-maxing for the 250
3
65
Christopher Porter retweeted
A decade ago, conventional wisdom said custom silicon was a mistake. Today, it is the architectural backbone powering the agentic era. See how ten years of continuous innovation led to our eighth generation TPUs and how we’re building the foundation for what’s next. #8daysofTPU8
32
48
256
54,710
Christopher Porter retweeted
MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW GOOD OF AN INVESTOR GOOGLE IS 6% OF SPACEX 14% OF ANTHROPIC 75% OF WAYMO $900M INTO SPACEX IN 2015 → NOW WORTH $115B $13B INTO ANTHROPIC → NOW WORTH $140B WAYMO JUST RAISED $16B AT A $126B VALUATION → GOOGLE’S STAKE WORTH ~$95B. THOSE THREE BETS ALONE ARE WORTH OVER $350B AND THEY HAVE 100’S MORE SMALLER ONES $GOOGL
Jun 13
JUST IN: Google’s $900 million investment in SpaceX has reportedly grown to $100 billion
604
1,770
13,953
2,348,857
Christopher Porter retweeted
The UFC just released an AI promo for the White House event featuring Theodore Roosevelt
322
2,671
15,756
1,398,273
Christopher Porter retweeted
Also, the US acquired the pulse microwave device from the Russians and it works the way the IC expert panel posited such a device would work. theins.press/en/inv/290088
4
75
249
12,867
I’M JOHNNY KNOXVILLE AND THIS IS ‘AGENTIC OPTIONS TRADING’
Options are now rolling out for agentic trading. Discover chains, pull quotes with full Greeks, check positions, and place or cancel orders. All through the Robinhood Trading MCP server.
2
153
Christopher Porter retweeted
All the credit for 'debunking' the Biden administration's intelligence reports that doubted foreign involvement in Havana Syndrome goes to @DNIGabbard What you are unlikely to see in legacy media coverage is that our small team broke the story yesterday.. And Gabbard initiated the new review of directed energy attacks in response to our independent reporting which revealed evidence of progressive brain injury and brain cell death. As a independent journalist, I was able to take the Havana Syndrome reporting further on @x than I ever could at @cbsnews under the old leadership. Thank you to the CIA, NSA, State Department, DoD and Space Force whistleblowers who trusted independent journalism and came forward. Thank you for sharing!
EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Era Intelligence Assessments On Directed Energy Attacks or Havana Syndrome Rescinded @dnigabbard After Our 2025 Investigation Despite facing systemic resistance within the US intelligence community, an @ODNIgov official confirms Gabbard has rescinded two, Biden-era Intelligence Community Assessments (ICA) related to AHI's (Anomalous Health Incidents) or Havana Syndrome on Thursday in a memo sent to the entire Intelligence Community. The Biden-era assessments concluded it was very unlikely a foreign adversary or novel weapon was behind debilitating brain injuries among spies, diplomats, military operatives and civilians. @DNIGabbard committed to a new review after our 2025 independent investigation (posted again here) revealed progressive brain injuries and cases of brain cell death. - This fulfills Gabbard's promise to initiate a review of the assessments, make the findings public, and ensure the mistreatment and dismissal of those impacted by AHIs is never again tolerated. - In the memo, DNI Gabbard explains that "a substantive recall of these ICAs is necessary and appropriate due to concerns about analytic bias negatively impacting the objectivity and soundness of analytic judgments." - She goes on to detail several of the IC analytic “shortfalls” of the AHI ICAs, to include: — “Failure to use all available sources of intelligence information and selectively excluding intelligence and evidence which did not support the analytic conclusions” —“Mischaracterizing the contents and sources of the underlying information to support the analytic conclusions and suppress analysis of alternatives” —“Misrepresenting and omitting information necessary to understand the quality and reliability of underlying sources of intelligence” —“Inclusion and reliance on an ethically flawed medical study while omitting information critical of the study and its methodology” —“Limiting operations and intelligence collection to maintain an analytic line which relied on the absence of evidence.” -DNI Gabbard directed the Intelligence Community to take further action in the coming months to review this topic, ensure analytic integrity, and bring the truth to the American people. NOTE: In April 2025, we shared the story of Mike Beck and his wife Rita. Beck was a decorated counterintelligence officer who was hit by a directed energy weapon in 1996 while on assignment overseas. Diagnosed with a Parkinson's like syndrome, Beck passed away earlier this year. Because of Mike Beck's bravery, his wife Rita, and many whistleblowers who came forward, change is happening and accountability is possible.
162
4,941
13,590
208,428
Christopher Porter retweeted
“Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior C.I.A. officer who suffered Havana syndrome symptoms while in Russia, said that the ailments were caused by a foreign adversary targeting American officials overseas and that the intelligence assessments disputing that were flawed. “This has been a fight for the truth that many of us have been engaged in for almost a decade,” he said. “It is high time that the government finally came clean on accountability.” nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/po… via @NYTimes
16
69
195
9,367
Christopher Porter retweeted
Amen to all of this. A long struggle it has been. I’m gonna let others say more words on this. Just briefly here-It has been an exhausting fight for me since 2017, and many of us from original cohort in Havana in ‘16. I am tired. But we never gave up, a select few of us. This is the right move by the DNI (sincere thanks to her), long overdue from the USG, and much more to go in terms of accountability for who covered this up, and attribution, re the adversary who did this.
EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Era Intelligence Assessments On Directed Energy Attacks or Havana Syndrome Rescinded @dnigabbard After Our 2025 Investigation Despite facing systemic resistance within the US intelligence community, an @ODNIgov official confirms Gabbard has rescinded two, Biden-era Intelligence Community Assessments (ICA) related to AHI's (Anomalous Health Incidents) or Havana Syndrome on Thursday in a memo sent to the entire Intelligence Community. The Biden-era assessments concluded it was very unlikely a foreign adversary or novel weapon was behind debilitating brain injuries among spies, diplomats, military operatives and civilians. @DNIGabbard committed to a new review after our 2025 independent investigation (posted again here) revealed progressive brain injuries and cases of brain cell death. - This fulfills Gabbard's promise to initiate a review of the assessments, make the findings public, and ensure the mistreatment and dismissal of those impacted by AHIs is never again tolerated. - In the memo, DNI Gabbard explains that "a substantive recall of these ICAs is necessary and appropriate due to concerns about analytic bias negatively impacting the objectivity and soundness of analytic judgments." - She goes on to detail several of the IC analytic “shortfalls” of the AHI ICAs, to include: — “Failure to use all available sources of intelligence information and selectively excluding intelligence and evidence which did not support the analytic conclusions” —“Mischaracterizing the contents and sources of the underlying information to support the analytic conclusions and suppress analysis of alternatives” —“Misrepresenting and omitting information necessary to understand the quality and reliability of underlying sources of intelligence” —“Inclusion and reliance on an ethically flawed medical study while omitting information critical of the study and its methodology” —“Limiting operations and intelligence collection to maintain an analytic line which relied on the absence of evidence.” -DNI Gabbard directed the Intelligence Community to take further action in the coming months to review this topic, ensure analytic integrity, and bring the truth to the American people. NOTE: In April 2025, we shared the story of Mike Beck and his wife Rita. Beck was a decorated counterintelligence officer who was hit by a directed energy weapon in 1996 while on assignment overseas. Diagnosed with a Parkinson's like syndrome, Beck passed away earlier this year. Because of Mike Beck's bravery, his wife Rita, and many whistleblowers who came forward, change is happening and accountability is possible.
7
39
130
14,182
Christopher Porter retweeted
This is actually a very good development. The ICAs on Havana Syndrome were deeply flawed and tendentious. And there is a welter of evidence pointing to Russia as being behind these attacks.
This is huge news for the AHI victim community, analytic integrity, and for the American people. These flawed, fraudulent, and manufactured Intelligence Community Assessments (ICA) have caused significant harm to some of our nation’s bravest. ICAs carry a great deal of weight, particularly when declassified as part of a public messaging effort, as was done with the AHI ICA. The assessment was deliberately manufactured and used to discredit some of our nation’s bravest and impede their access to medical care. As was the case with other high-visibility intelligence assessments, it fell far short of analytic integrity standards. Today’s action by @DNIGabbard is a glimmer of hope for our nation’s intelligence officers, service members, and diplomats stationed around the world who have defended this country in austere locations and subsequently had the nation they served turn its back on them. Thank you to Director Gabbard for keeping her commitment to this Committee and me, and for her overall willingness to do the right thing. I am incredibly grateful.
11
121
371
28,637
Anyone following my research on using AI to run Structured Analytic Techniques on declassified Cold War archives will recognize that the tendency to select only intelligence, often exquisite or simply based on “expertise”, that confirms the existing analytic line and ignore any amount of incoming new intelligence that contradicts it is a recurring failure of US intelligence. Worse than with other countries, and worse at CIA than other agencies. This isn’t a one-off, it’s just a high-profile example of a culture that, while incubating skilled professionals, isn’t entire truth-centric. Good call here by @TulsiGabbard
In one of her final acts as DNI, Tulsi Gabbard rescinded two Biden-era IC assessments on Anomalous Health Incidents, aka Havana Syndrome, arguing a recall was necessary due to "concerns about analytic bias negatively impacting the objectivity and soundness of analytic judgments."
1
9
1,172
RT @RepRickCrawford: This is huge news for the AHI victim community, analytic integrity, and for the American people. These flawed, fraudu…
120
Christopher Porter retweeted
Something to keep in mind... A recently declassified 2020 memo from the IC told us that it WAS POSSIBLE for an adversary to "manipulate voting results across multiple jurisdictions and enough states to influence a presidential election..." 👇
We have a new declassified NIC memo from January 2020 discussing the vulnerability of our election infrastructure... My favorite line: "...an adversary could manipulate voting results across multiple jurisdictions and enough states to influence a presidential election..."
8
158
314
13,888
Christopher Porter retweeted
Perfect, really: - rules (don’t walk in the water!) mean you can’t get to the other side (victory) - the structure doesn’t make any sense, but has taken on a life of its own - minimal shade - requires lots of contractors to maintain - lots of people will go ther and sit around
An early look at the @GWOTMF memorial planned for Washington, D.C, released today. It's planned on what are now athletic fields at the corner of Henry Bacon Drive and Constitution Avenue, near the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
20
18
167
18,921
Christopher Porter retweeted
$MU: Wolfe: "never been before existed in memory, suggesting some multiple expansion opportunity." MS: "in our view, this implies DRAM stocks could re-rate to at least 8-10x PE vs. 5x PE now"
12
64
556
248,402
Christopher Porter retweeted
The images and music of the Pope’s visit to the Sagrada Familia Cathedral tonight was breathtaking. More please.
We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time! The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.
35
236
1,763
122,041
Christopher Porter retweeted
The Catholic Church just finished the largest Cathedral in the world. There are more Catholics alive today than there at any time since Christ and we're growing faster than the global population. Believe it or not, you are alive at the most Catholic moment in world history.
Pope Leo XIV officially blessed and inaugurated the Tower of Jesus Christ at Barcelona's Sagrada Família, the tallest and final central tower of the basilica. Video: Vatican Media
113
1,040
10,383
254,964
Christopher Porter retweeted
The government should block dangerous AI! Coincidentally, my company sells very Safe AI Have you heard about our upcoming IPO
Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI axios.com/2026/06/10/anthrop…
11
98
1,624
56,483