Frederick H . Fleitz Frederick H . Fleitz , Jr . ( born 1962 ) is Chief Analyst and founder of LIGNET . com , an acronym for the Langley Intelligence Group Network , Newsmax Media ' s global forecasting and intelligence website . He began this project in May 2011 after a 25 - year career with the Central Intelligence Agency , Defense Intelligence Agency , Department of State , and the U . S . House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Fleitz spent 19 years with the CIA working on a variety of areas , including the CIA Weapons Intelligence , Nonproliferation , and Arms Control Center ( WINPAC ) . From 2001 - 2005 , CIA loaned Fleitz to the State Department where he served as chief of staff to Undersecretaries of State for Arms Control John Bolton ( 2001 – 2005 ) and Robert Joseph ( 2005 – 2006 ) . Fleitz specialized in WMD proliferation for the House Intelligence Committee , especially the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs . He also was a senior adviser to the committee ' s Ranking Member , Congressman Peter Hoekstra R - Michigan . Fleitz spent much of his career working on multilateral diplomacy . He has been a delegate to many international conferences dealing with WMD proliferation , including the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors , the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference , and the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference . He wrote several well - received unclassified research aids on UN peacekeeping for the CIA during the 1990s . In 2002 , he published " Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s : Causes , Solutions , and US Interests " ( Praeger ) This book received several good reviews and went into a second printing . It also received endorsements from former UN Ambassadors Jeane Kirkpatrick and Charles Lichenstein . Fleitz ' s name hit the press in the spring of 2005 during the battle in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to confirm Bolton as U . S . Ambassador to the United Nations . Several accounts describe difficult challenges Fleitz faced as Bolton ' s Chief of Staff , mostly involving conflict over a controversial speech Bolton delivered on a possible Cuban biological weapon s program . Most contemporaneous press accounts in 2005 portrayed this matter as a personnel dispute over a disagreement with two intelligence officers over assertions Bolton wanted to make in the speech . In his own testimony , Fleitz said one of analysts had forwarded Bolton ' s speech for the CIA to review , but attached his own dissenting commentary and then denied doing so . This led to a confrontation and an apology from the analyst ' s supervisors . Fleitz testified that the other analyst campaigned against the speech after it had been delivered to Congress and the press . Two 2007 best selling books provided more context about this dispute . Investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman in his 2007 book " Shadow Warriors " ( Crown Forum ) wrote that controversy over Bolton ' s 2002 Cuba speech stemmed from heavy pressure from a small number of intelligence officers who favored a softer line on Cuba . Timmerman claims these intelligence analysts politicized Bolton ' s text and that Fleitz resisted their efforts . Rowan Scarborough , in his 2007 book " Sabotage : America ' s Enemies Within the CIA " ( Regnery ) came to a similar conclusion and wrote that Fleitz paid a professional price for defending Bolton and standing up to political pressure from rogue CIA and State Department intelligence analysts .