J.E. Dyer

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J.E. Dyer is a retired Naval Intelligence officer who lives in Southern California, blogging as The Optimistic Conservative for domestic tranquility and world peace. Her articles have appeared at Hot Air, Commentary’s Contentions, Patheos, The Daily Caller, The Jewish Press, and The Weekly Standard.

Latest on monitoring Tucker Carlson: Enough to get everybody riled up by J.E. Dyer

Latest on monitoring Tucker Carlson: Enough to get everybody riled up

J.E. Dyer July 25, 2021
Kamala Harris: Getting vaccinated is ‘the very essence’ of the Bible saying ‘love thy neighbor’ by J.E. Dyer

Kamala Harris: Getting vaccinated is ‘the very essence’ of the Bible saying ‘love thy neighbor’

J.E. Dyer July 23, 2021
Klobuchar clarifies why Senate Republicans cannot agree to cloture on an ‘infrastructure bill to be filled in later’ by J.E. Dyer

Klobuchar clarifies why Senate Republicans cannot agree to cloture on an ‘infrastructure bill to be filled in later’

J.E. Dyer July 20, 2021
AP dances Gangnam style in non-responsive ‘fact check’ of text message monitoring claim by J.E. Dyer

AP dances Gangnam style in non-responsive ‘fact check’ of text message monitoring claim

J.E. Dyer July 18, 2021
Iran’s Atlantic naval adventure is back on the radar, with the warships heading for St. Petersburg in the Baltic Sea by J.E. Dyer

Iran’s Atlantic naval adventure is back on the radar, with the warships heading for St. Petersburg in the Baltic Sea

J.E. Dyer July 18, 2021
Disinformation and other information disorders: Psaki, Murthy, and two pings by J.E. Dyer

Disinformation and other information disorders: Psaki, Murthy, and two pings

J.E. Dyer July 16, 2021
Milley’s big coup-fighting adventure: Two pings by J.E. Dyer

Milley’s big coup-fighting adventure: Two pings

J.E. Dyer July 16, 2021
Toledo: Local news reports say collapsed mural of George Floyd was struck by lightning by J.E. Dyer

Toledo: Local news reports say collapsed mural of George Floyd was struck by lightning

J.E. Dyer July 14, 2021
Biden-allied groups to work with SMS carriers to ‘dispel misinformation’ by J.E. Dyer

Biden-allied groups to work with SMS carriers to ‘dispel misinformation’

J.E. Dyer July 14, 2021
A day in the garden of good and evil: Cuba shouts ‘Libertad’; America dances with death by J.E. Dyer

A day in the garden of good and evil: Cuba shouts ‘Libertad’; America dances with death

J.E. Dyer July 12, 2021
Door-to-door vaccination proselytizing: How many admin spox does it take to mimic the Fauci effect? by J.E. Dyer

Door-to-door vaccination proselytizing: How many admin spox does it take to mimic the Fauci effect?

J.E. Dyer July 9, 2021
License to monitor: National strategies, the Capitol Police, and Tucker Carlson by J.E. Dyer

License to monitor: National strategies, the Capitol Police, and Tucker Carlson

J.E. Dyer July 8, 2021
Independence Day 2021 by J.E. Dyer

Independence Day 2021

J.E. Dyer July 4, 2021
Asking the right questions about the monitoring of Tucker Carlson by J.E. Dyer

Asking the right questions about the monitoring of Tucker Carlson

J.E. Dyer July 1, 2021
Tucker Carlson: ‘Whistleblower’ advised him NSA monitoring his comms, admin seeks to take him off air by J.E. Dyer

Tucker Carlson: ‘Whistleblower’ advised him NSA monitoring his comms, admin seeks to take him off air

J.E. Dyer June 28, 2021
Russia logs some major ‘firsts’ in maritime exercise in Eastern Med by J.E. Dyer

Russia logs some major ‘firsts’ in maritime exercise in Eastern Med

J.E. Dyer June 26, 2021
NATO exercise Sea Breeze, in the Black Sea, not a breeze so far by J.E. Dyer

NATO exercise Sea Breeze, in the Black Sea, not a breeze so far

J.E. Dyer June 24, 2021
Biden tells Americans they would need nukes and F-15s to oppose the federal government by J.E. Dyer

Biden tells Americans they would need nukes and F-15s to oppose the federal government

J.E. Dyer June 24, 2021
Military training guide includes socialists as representatives of a terrorist ideological category by J.E. Dyer

Military training guide includes socialists as representatives of a terrorist ideological category

J.E. Dyer June 23, 2021
A new ‘domestic terrorism strategy’ brings back an old information playbook; *UPDATE* by J.E. Dyer

A new ‘domestic terrorism strategy’ brings back an old information playbook; *UPDATE*

J.E. Dyer June 21, 2021
Fascinating: U.S. officials say Iranian warships have ‘changed course’; not headed for Venezuela by J.E. Dyer

Fascinating: U.S. officials say Iranian warships have ‘changed course’; not headed for Venezuela

J.E. Dyer June 18, 2021
The Iranian ships that talked too little by J.E. Dyer

The Iranian ships that talked too little

J.E. Dyer June 17, 2021
Russian Pacific Fleet breaks out: First exercise in Central Pacific by J.E. Dyer

Russian Pacific Fleet breaks out: First exercise in Central Pacific

J.E. Dyer June 13, 2021
Meanwhile on the high seas: Is a Russian submarine inviting itself to the G7 summit? by J.E. Dyer

Meanwhile on the high seas: Is a Russian submarine inviting itself to the G7 summit?

J.E. Dyer June 10, 2021
Biden admin informs media outlets that Trump DOJ ‘covertly’ obtained phone records on their reporters by J.E. Dyer

Biden admin informs media outlets that Trump DOJ ‘covertly’ obtained phone records on their reporters

J.E. Dyer June 4, 2021
Iran’s fleet oiler, Kharg, sinks under mysterious circumstances after catching fire in Gulf of Oman by J.E. Dyer

Iran’s fleet oiler, Kharg, sinks under mysterious circumstances after catching fire in Gulf of Oman

J.E. Dyer June 2, 2021
Memorial Day 2021 by J.E. Dyer

Memorial Day 2021

J.E. Dyer May 31, 2021
Is Iran finally going to get a pair of navy ships to Venezuela? by J.E. Dyer

Is Iran finally going to get a pair of navy ships to Venezuela?

J.E. Dyer May 31, 2021
Fauci said benefits of high-risk research ‘outweigh risks’ like pandemics, yes; but resuming U.S. research in 2017 is what’s interesting by J.E. Dyer

Fauci said benefits of high-risk research ‘outweigh risks’ like pandemics, yes; but resuming U.S. research in 2017 is what’s interesting

J.E. Dyer May 29, 2021
Senate Republicans filibuster, block approval of January 6 commission by J.E. Dyer

Senate Republicans filibuster, block approval of January 6 commission

J.E. Dyer May 28, 2021
Israel, Iran, Hamas, and why it’s not 2014 anymore by J.E. Dyer

Israel, Iran, Hamas, and why it’s not 2014 anymore

J.E. Dyer May 24, 2021
The Rojansky Gambit will now prepare us for repaired relations with Russia by J.E. Dyer

The Rojansky Gambit will now prepare us for repaired relations with Russia

J.E. Dyer May 22, 2021
Ex-FBI director gave $100K to Biden kids trust; represented Hunter’s Romanian partner in China deal by J.E. Dyer

Ex-FBI director gave $100K to Biden kids trust; represented Hunter’s Romanian partner in China deal

J.E. Dyer May 21, 2021
Misuse of ‘unmasking’ term in reports about DOJ and parody accounts pestering Devin Nunes by J.E. Dyer

Misuse of ‘unmasking’ term in reports about DOJ and parody accounts pestering Devin Nunes

J.E. Dyer May 19, 2021
The Liz Cheney moment, and the moving on therefrom by J.E. Dyer

The Liz Cheney moment, and the moving on therefrom

J.E. Dyer May 15, 2021
Hillary’s revenge? How Facebook justifies continuing its ban on Donald Trump by J.E. Dyer

Hillary’s revenge? How Facebook justifies continuing its ban on Donald Trump

J.E. Dyer May 14, 2021
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