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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · 20h

More kind words from Rebecca Ferguson on prepping for her role as a senior duty officer in the White House Situation Room in A House of Dynamite.

READ: www.indiewire.com/features/int...

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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 4d

Our director Larry Pfeiffer gets a shout-out from Rebecca Ferguson--star of Dune, Mission Impossible, Silo, and now A House of Dynamite.

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · 4d

Rebecca Ferguson: “They hooked me up with Larry Pfeiffer. He was the man. He’s basically the guy who Jason Clarke plays [in the film]. He’d been that guy, and he was on set every day.”

I'm blushing. Go see A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE--now (UK), Oct 10 (US & the world).

www.netflix.com/tudum/featur...

Rebecca Ferguson Embraces Truthfulness in A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

In Kathryn Bigelow’s film, the actress is a force to be reckoned with.

www.netflix.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · 4d

Jason Clarke plays the Sr Director of the WH Situation Room: [These are] "just ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances having to carry out their jobs. Nobody is coming to save us. There is just us."

www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · 4d

"[Rebecca Ferguson] cites one of Pfeiffer’s cardinal rules: “ ‘You never lose your shit in the Situation Room.’ If you need a break, you leave; you walk out, because you have to maintain calm in every situation."

www.netflix.com/tudum/featur...

Rebecca Ferguson Embraces Truthfulness in A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

In Kathryn Bigelow’s film, the actress is a force to be reckoned with.

www.netflix.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · 4d

Rebecca Ferguson: “They hooked me up with Larry Pfeiffer. He was the man. He’s basically the guy who Jason Clarke plays [in the film]. He’d been that guy, and he was on set every day.”

I'm blushing. Go see A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE--now (UK), Oct 10 (US & the world).

www.netflix.com/tudum/featur...

Rebecca Ferguson Embraces Truthfulness in A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

In Kathryn Bigelow’s film, the actress is a force to be reckoned with.

www.netflix.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · 23d

RIP Joe Burns. I’ll never forget the late night spent in an after-hours pub in London that catered to the USN. Smooth seas!

www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/w...

Joseph Burns Obituary - Washington, DC

Celebrate the life of Joseph Burns, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of DeVol Funeral Home.

www.dignitymemorial.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: Trump to rename the Interior Department the Department of the EXTERIOR. "I noticed that all the national parks were outside. No one had made that connection before," Trump said in making this announcement.

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Sep 5

A Loomer-cide? Or a natural evolution?

Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · Sep 5

A new Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) announced today. The incumbent VADM Whitworth will have served just over 3 years of what has normally been a 3- or more year term. His removal had been called for by Laura Loomer recently.

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nice

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can’t Trump just buy a monster truck with big tires and fog lamps to compensate for, well, you know?

Trump to rename the Defense Department the Department of War www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

a monster truck is driving through a muddy field with a crowd in the background

ALT: a monster truck is driving through a muddy field with a crowd in the background

media.tenor.com

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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · Sep 2

What's our director Larry Pfeiffer up to when he's not running the show here? He's helping Oscar-winning directors make movies.

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE hits theaters on Oct 3 in the UK and Oct 10 in the US and worldwide. Streaming on Netflix on Oct 24.

Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congrats to Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Oppenheim, and Greg Shapiro for the successful launch of A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE today at the Venice Film Festival!

I'm proud to have played a part, serving as technical advisor on the film's White House action.

@netflix.com

deadline.com/2025/09/hous...

‘A House Of Dynamite’: What The Critics Are Saying About Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Thriller

Netflix and Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear thriller is going down a storm at the Venice Film Festival.

deadline.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congrats to Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Oppenheim, and Greg Shapiro for the successful launch of A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE today at the Venice Film Festival!

I'm proud to have played a part, serving as technical advisor on the film's White House action.

@netflix.com

deadline.com/2025/09/hous...

‘A House Of Dynamite’: What The Critics Are Saying About Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Thriller

Netflix and Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear thriller is going down a storm at the Venice Film Festival.

deadline.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Aug 22

It can happen but is rare. The irony is that in many cases the raw collection is automatically shared with, or has been collected by one of, the Five Eye partners.

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Aug 21

NSA is historically a very hierarchical organization that rewards experience and time served. There could be many in the ranks who will bristle at his return at the top of the agency. /END

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Francescon’s rapid rise is more likely because of his White House and Pentagon association with Chris Miller and Kash Patel in Trump 1.0. /3

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Aug 21

This experience has been even more critical during the modern era where the Director is dual-hatted as Commander Cyber Command. /2

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Possibly a talented young man, rich in counterterrorism experience, Francesco will be the least experienced Deputy Director of NSA ever. Predecessors have had decades of NSA experience complementing the more itinerant nature of the military Director. /1

Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Joe Francescon picked as next NSA deputy director

The former defense and national security official is set to take over after a major leadership shake-up at the agency.

www.politico.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Former CIA Director Bill Burns says it so well. Take time to read this.

“…under the guise of reform, you all got caught in the crossfire of a retribution campaign—of a war on public service and expertise.”

GIFT: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our Director Larry Pfeiffer: “When our intelligence community leaders conduct end-runs around procedures established to protect sources and methods, they put at grave risk foreign sources risking life and limb to give us information vital to our security.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents over CIA objections, sources say

Some former intelligence officers said they were alarmed at the detail revealed in the declassified document about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.

www.nbcnews.com

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MSW Media @mswmedia.com · Aug 1

Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard have nothing.

Check out the full episode where they get into DNI's reckless declassifications, the politically motivated firing of April Doss from her job as general counsel for the NSA, and more.
spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/int...

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · Aug 1

Gabbard Release Threatens Sources and Methods, Top former Intel Official Says
www.spytalk.co/p/gabbard-re...

Gabbard Release Threatens Sources and Methods, Top former Intel Official Says

Larry Pfeiffer discussed the ODNI’s attacks on the IC’s Russia 2016 elections report on the SpyTalk podcast

www.spytalk.co

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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our Director Larry Pfeiffer: “Sources and methods could be easily inferred in almost every instance. … I don’t know if I’ve seen a document of that sensitivity so lightly redacted.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report

CIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their c...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Jul 29

NSA General Counsel is not a political appointment, but a career position, owing largely to the complicated legal territory involved in its operations, particularly re protecting US civil liberties.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

Top Lawyer for National Security Agency Is Fired

www.nytimes.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Jul 29

From my colleague at The Steady State, Steven Cash: “The CIA’s very existence depends on a functioning constitutional system. Without that, there will be no apolitical CIA to defend.”

www.thecipherbrief.com/twcias-reput...

Two Existential Threats: CIA’s Reputation vs. Democracy’s Survival

Former CIA senior officer Mark Kelton warns of an "existential challenge" facing the CIA - a crisis of public trust in a hyper-partisan America. But as democracy itself is under threat, where should l...

www.thecipherbrief.com

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Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Jul 23

It was too easy!

Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our Director Larry Pfeiffer helps Politifact assess Trump’s statements today as “Pants on Fire!!!”

www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

Trump’s falsehood that Obama tried to lead a ‘coup’

President Donald Trump said intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard “caught” former President Barack Obama and that he tried to lead a “coup.” That’s a distortion of records showing how Obama sought an asses...

www.politifact.com

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