Viktor Leonov During the past few weeks, the U.S.’s forty-fifth President has been trying to form his new administration and the Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov has been patrolling just outside of the U.S.’s territorial waters near our Norfolk Naval Base. What is President Trump to make of this scenario? What are [...]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite complained on October 18, 2016 that Russian President Putin’s placing of nuclear-capable offensive Iskander (S-400) missiles in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, was intended to threaten European capitals as well as the Baltic region. While Vladimir Putin has moved defensive missile systems around the region, this is the first time he’s [...]
Those who are checking our blog to read our critique of tonight’s NCIS episode must have forgotten tonight is the first game of the World Series and the Chicago Cubs first participation in too many years. So we’ll be watching the Cubs tonight, instead of NCIS’ annual gory Halloween episode. We are often asked if [...]
Many of you receive our critiques of the NCIS show, which appears on CBS. Some of you have also read the thrillers we write based on our exciting and dangerous years in the justice system. Our tenth thriller, The Looming Storm is just being released. It is set in Washington, D.C. and the Florida Keys and [...]
This blog comments on news of interest, plus critiques new episodes of CBS’ TV shows, NCIS. Since the NCIS show is on summer sabbatical, we thought we’d comment on an interesting item of news and update NCIS fans on upcoming events. This week’s article in the USA Today about President Obama avoiding the Waldorf Astoria [...]
It’s always our intent for this blog to comment on the news and to critique NCIS shows. Since tonight’s episode “Check” is a rerun that first ran on January 6th of this year and the critique is available in the archives of our blog, we want comment on some recent disturbing news. The April 22, [...]
In this blog we comment on news items that we believe are significant. One such bit of news surfaced recently. It was reported that Collins Bartholomew, a subsidiary of HarperCollins has published an Atlas for distribution in schools in the Middle East. In this Atlas, the publisher has shown the borders of Jordan and Syria [...]
I pointed out in yesterday's blog that unlike the NCIS show, the real headquarters for NCIS in at Quantico. NCIS does still have an office at the Washington Navy Yard. My sources within NCIS confirmed for me that three NCIS agents were some of the first on the seen at yesterday's incident in which Alexis killed [...]
On a day that CBS is reporting the heroic action by Metropolitan Police and NCIS agents who confronted and exchanged gun shots with Aaron Alexis at Washington Navy Yard, the U.S. Attorney's office in southern California has filed charges of bribery against a U.S. Navy Commander and a Supervisory NCIS Special Agent assigned to the [...]
Our prayers go out to those injured and to the families of those killed today at Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard. Yes, the Navy Yard was once the location of NCIS headquarters as portrayed on the TV program, but their headquarters are now located in the Russell-Knox Building aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. One gunman is [...]