The Library
This is a place where I share what I’ve learned, what I’m still learning, and the questions I think are worth asking. Take what is useful. Leave with more than you arrived with.
Explore the Library
Different rooms. A common purpose. Choose where you want to begin, or wander. It all connects here.
01Investigations, reports, maps, timelines, letters, and original source material.
02Follow a subject through connected research and practical resources.
03Practical guides, briefing notes, and tools meant to be shared and put to work.
04Books I’m reading now, recent recommendations, and titles worth keeping nearby.
05Threat assessments, intelligence analysis, and the complete briefing archive in one place.
Published Articles
Magazine, journal, and outside publication work is kept together at the Newsstand.
Image: The Daily WireThe Daily Wire · Analysis
A Daily Wire analysis by Sarah Adams examining why radicalization is reaching younger audiences and what the shift means for threat awareness and prevention.
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CNN via Getty ImagesThe Daily Wire · Analysis
Newly declassified 9/11 files show that warnings about Osama bin Laden and attacks inside the U.S. were reaching the highest levels of government years…
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Hasib Panjshiri · Wikimedia Commons / CC0Afghanistan International · Investigation
A reconstruction of the Taliban intelligence operation that penetrated resistance contacts, tracked Hasib Panjshiri’s movement, and led to the August 20 ambush in Salang.
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Know Thy Enemy
An investigation into the warnings, networks, and operational relationships surrounding the October 7 attacks.
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Know Thy Enemy
A downloadable open-source investigation examining the organization, its networks, and the threat it continues to present.
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Know Thy Enemy
An investigation into Hamza bin Laden’s survival, leadership role, family network, and place inside Al-Qaeda’s evolving structure.
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Know Thy Enemy
A detailed examination of Islamic State Khorasan Province, its networks, and the Taliban’s public claims about fighting it.
Open investigationThe Commons
Practical resources for families, responders and communities.
Explore The CommonsMy Book
The investigation in book form, bringing together the attack, the network behind it, and the unfinished lessons that still matter.
Book · Sarah Adams & Dave Benton
Sarah Adams and Dave “Boon” Benton reconstruct the Benghazi attacks, the network behind them, and the lessons that remain unfinished.
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The goal was never command and control. It was connection: bringing the right people, knowledge, and purpose together around work that mattered.
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Special Collection
Conflict, memory, resilience, and the people who live through war.
Enter Art of WarA writer in the family
My ancestor Hannah Adams was the first woman in the United States known to support herself through writing. Her place here connects family history, independent scholarship, and the long work of making knowledge accessible.
Enter her collection“A life built around books, questions, and the courage to keep writing.”
Footsteps
A special Library journey through resistance, tradecraft, adaptation, and the quiet determination to find another way forward.
Follow the footstepsA nod to my last life
Memoirs and histories by and about the people who lived the intelligence profession.
Michael Idov · 2026 Spy Fiction
Michael Idov’s espionage novel follows a renegade CIA officer pulled into an infiltration mission involving extremist networks and political intrigue across Europe.
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David Goodman · 2026 Spy Fiction
David Goodman follows MI5 and MI6 trainees through a covert exercise that becomes something much more dangerous.
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Henry A. Crumpton
Henry A. Crumpton reflects on clandestine service, counterterrorism, and the responsibilities of intelligence work.
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Gary Schroen
Gary Schroen’s first-person account of the CIA team sent into Afghanistan after September 11.
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Nada Bakos
Nada Bakos recounts the analytical and targeting work behind the campaign against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Liza Mundy
Liza Mundy’s history of the women who transformed CIA operations, analysis, and modern targeting.
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Explore Sarah’s conversations on other shows, including the episodes first collected by Askari Media Group.
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LinkedIn · Social Writing
The threat model has changed. If we keep analyzing today’s terrorist networks with yesterday’s assumptions, much of that analysis belongs in the burn bag.
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LinkedIn · Social Writing
Sarah Adams on acknowledging civilian casualties and examining the targets and reporting around Pakistan’s September 21 strikes.
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LinkedIn Article
How the Taliban is exploiting imprisonment, poverty, and vulnerability to manufacture images of Afghan women supporting its rule.
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“Not all those who wander are lost.”J.R.R. Tolkien
