Author: Paul Crespo

Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for office, taught political science, wrote for a major newspaper and had his own radio show. Paul has also been a defense contractor with the Pentagon. He brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty — at home and from abroad.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with Paul Crespo and the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. NATIONAL SECURITY UNACCEPTABLY LATE – After months of waiting, Biden’s national security strategy is ‘coming soon.’ “I think you will see the themes largely unchanged [from the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance released in March 2021],” said Cara Abercrombie, deputy assistant to the president and…

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Last month, after the highly political FBI raid on former President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, I asked ‘‘Can We Trust the FBI?’ And I asked that as a lifelong conservative, patriot, Marine Corps officer who worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and as a decades-long private security and military contractor who still ‘Backs the Blue.’ (RELATED: Former Police Officer Reveals What Cops Really Think About Policing Today) In that piece, I noted numerous significant mistakes and egregious errors the Bureau has made over recent years. Mistakes that have shaken the FBI’s credibility. I also noted that the only way to regain…

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FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with Paul Crespo and the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. NATIONAL SECURITY Nord Stream leaks (sabotage) underline gray-zone risks. Damaging a neighbor’s environment can be easy, cheap, and deniable. HOMELAND SECURITY BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS – Watchdog report details distress of migrant children housed at Fort Bliss. Unaccompanied migrant children held at a makeshift shelter in a…

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ANALYSIS – In the latest example of an FBI run amok under Joe Biden, the federal law enforcement agency launched an armed dawn raid on the home of a peaceful Catholic pro-life activist, author and father of seven. (RELATED: FBI SWAT Team Raids Home of Prominent Pro-Life Activist) The FBI reportedly arrested Mark Houck, 48, of Kintnersville, Pennsylvania at his rural home early Friday morning as at least two dozen federal agents swarmed his property in Bucks County with around 15 vehicles on Sept. 23. Houck is also co-founder and president of The King’s Men, a nonprofit group that promotes healing for victims of…

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FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with Paul Crespo and the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. NATIONAL SECURITY Putin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who disclosed US surveillance. Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, the former security consultant who leaked information about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs and is still wanted by Washington on espionage charges.…

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