MEMORANDUM FOR: DNI Tulsi Gabbard FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Ready and Equipped to Help NOTE: The first in VIPS’ series of memoranda for President Joe Biden (listed below) made reference to a memo we had sent President-elect Biden on...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals: Advice to US Vice Presidential Candidates
MEMORANDUM TO: The Candidates for U.S. Vice President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Clarity on Ukraine At Tuesday’s debate, we strongly suggest you avoid repeating familiar “facts” that do not bear close scrutiny. Chief among these is...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: The French Road to Nuclear War
This originally appeared on Consortium News. France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people – or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden. U.S. President Joe Biden...
To Biden: Avoiding a Third World War
ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Throwing Good Money After Bad: Decisions in an Intelligence Vacuum Dear President Biden: We noted in our January 26, 2023 Memorandum to you that National...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals: Ukraine Decision Time for Biden
September 5, 2022MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Ukraine Decision TimeREF: Nukes Cannot be Un-Invented, VIPSMr. President:Before Defense Secretary Austin flies off to Ramstein for the meeting Thursday of the...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Military Clash With China Over Pelosi Visit?
ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Military Clash With China Over Pelosi Visit?REFERENCE: VIPS Memo to You, May 1, 2022Mr. President,We, the undersigned, collectively, have hundreds of years of service to the...
Intel Vets: Nuclear Weapons Cannot Be Un-Invented
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Nuclear Weapons Cannot Be Un-invented, Thus …PRECEDENCE: IMMEDIATEREF: Our Memo of 12/20/20, "Don’t Be Suckered on Russia"May 1, 2022Mr. President: Mainstream...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Media Working on Mousetrap for Summit
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Media Working On Mousetrap For SummitSummary: With your meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Geneva just three days away, mainstream media are barely reporting – and at times...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity on Avoiding War in Ukraine
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Avoiding War in UkraineDear President Biden,We last communicated with you on December 20, 2020, when you were President-elect.At that time, we alerted you to the dangers...
Intel Vets to Biden: Don’t Be Suckered on Russia
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President-electFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Attempts to Sucker You Into Russia-BashingDear President-elect Biden,“Fool Me Once …” You may recall that President George W. Bush could not remember the last part of...