It’s the stuff thrillers are made of: our old friends the Soviets are back, this time calling themselves Russians, but up to their same old tricks: infiltrating the United States with “illegals” — sleeper agents who can pass for native but are in reality working for the home country. Here’s the bust, as reported by CBS News:

Ten alleged Russian spies have been arrested in the United States, the result of a multi-year investigation in four states, the FBI said Monday.

Eight of the 10 arrested were “carrying out long-term, ‘deep-cover’ assignments” the FBI said, while two had lesser roles in the Russian intelligence program. The arrests took place Sunday in Montclair, N.J., Yonkers, N.Y., Manhattan, Boston, and Arlington, Va.

Their job, according to the court papers in the case, was “to search and develop ties in policymaking circles” in the United States.

George Koval

Well, surprise, surprise. One of the great under-reported media stories for at least the past half century has been the Soviet “illegals” program, a continuous attempt to undermine the U.S. by seeding deep-cover agents and helping them rise to significant posts in academe, journalism and, of course, governmental circles. I wrote about one such agent at length in the May 2009 issue of Smithsonian magazine — George Koval, who was born in Iowa to radical communist parents, returned to the Soviet Union to settle in Birobizhan (Stalin’s “Jewish autonomous region” in Siberia), studied in Moscow, was recruited by the GRU — Soviet military intelligence — and sent back to the U.S., where he wormed his way into the Manhattan Project and become perhaps the foremost atomic spy, surpassing even Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs. (more…)

Andrew Breitbart’s recent smackdown of Max Blumenthal at CPAC (for his vicious smears against James O’Keefe) serves as a reminder to us all that when Liberal “journalists” attack, they have one goal – and it isn’t reporting the truth.  It is to win at any cost no matter what the damage is to the victim.  It is called the politics of personal destruction and it reflects the utter nihilism of Liberalism.

The tactic has been used repeatedly by the left (see Sarah Palin), but is particularly disturbing when used as a cudgel to destroy decent, hard-working Americans.  One such decent, hardworking (and extremely patriotic) American is Barrett Moore, founder of Triple Canopy.

I met Barrett a couple of years ago in Chicago at a luncheon for Navy SEAL, Marcus Luttrell author of the bestselling novel, Lone Survivor and boy do the Liberals hate him.

As I mentioned, Moore was the founder of Triple Canopy, one of America’s first private military companies (or PMC) and under his stewardship, he assembled one of this nation’s most impressive fighting forces – most of whom were retired members of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D) (Delta Force) – and sent them overseas to help carry our burden in Iraq.  What’s more, he did it at a fraction of the cost and much more efficiently than the American government ever could.  That’s private enterprise for you, but because his private enterprise involved guns, the Liberals focused on him like a laser beam.

Their attacks would come not only while he was at Triple Canopy, but even more devastatingly once he had been forced out. (more…)