Gina Haspel on Tuesday locked in the necessary support to become President Donald Trump’s next CIA director, winning over two crucial Democratic senators as she disavowed the spy agency’s past use of brutal interrogation tactics. Minutes after Haspel secured the backing of the Senate intelligence committee’s top Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia, she got an […]
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Obama and the Iranian Nuclear Threat by Ehud Barak…
The Iranians were producing more and more yellowcake, building more advanced centrifuges, accumulating more low-enriched uranium. They were getting better at hiding and protecting the network of facilities being used to try to produce a nuclear weapon. But in the early months of Bibi’s prime ministership, the question wasn’t whether to take military action against […]
Donald Trump’s Shadow War…
Five days after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump dined with some members of his national security team. During the meal, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford roughly outlined a plan for a risky counterterrorism raid in Yemen targeting Al Qaeda in the […]
Five Top Islamic State Officials Captured in U.S.–Iraqi Sting…
Five senior Islamic State officials have been captured, including a top aide to the group’s leader, in a complex cross-border sting carried out by Iraqi and American intelligence, two Iraqi officials said Wednesday. The three-month operation, which tracked a group of senior Islamic State leaders who had been hiding in Syria and Turkey, represents a […]
REPORT: Series of ‘Deficiencies’ Led to Deadly Niger Ambush…
The Defense Department on Thursday released its report on the investigation into the deadly Niger ambush that killed four U.S. soldiers in October 2017, and it found that a series of failures and “deficiencies” led to the event; the report did not assign individual, direct blame. Americans Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, […]
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Follow the Money: Three Billionaires Paved Way for Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal…
President Donald Trump has just fulfilled a campaign pledge to tear up the Obama administration’s signature foreign policy achievement, a multilateral agreement constraining Iran’s nuclear enrichment (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA). In doing so, the president went against the advice of, among many others, his secretary of defense, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman […]
Former CIA Officer: Brennan’s Attacks on Trump ‘Cringe Worthy,’ Put National Security at Risk…
A behind-the-scenes U.S. intelligence community fight over the merits of publicly scorning President Trump has burst into the open recently, with the CIA’s former Moscow station chief accusing Obama-era spymaster John O. Brennan of crossing a red line through incessant Twitter and cable news excoriations of the current commander in chief. In addition to claiming […]
New Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever…
ONE OF THE most outrageous acts of Barack Obama’s presidency was his failure to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. The fiscal year 2012 NDAA included provisions that appeared to both codify and expand a power the executive branch had previously claimed to possess — namely, the power to hold individuals, […]
Broward County Officials Forced To Admit School Shooter Nikolas Cruz Was in Diversionary Program….
The Broward County school and law enforcement officials have finally admitted Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was indeed a participant in the “Promise Program”; a corrupt diversionary program intended to keep students out of the legal system. Until today school and county officials had denied Cruz’s participation. Nothing good comes from this […]
Trump: “Iran nuclear deal is ‘defective at its core,’ Announces U.S. Withdrawal…
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the U.S. will pull out of the landmark nuclear accord with Iran, dealing a profound blow to U.S. allies and potentially deepening the president’s isolation on the world stage. “The United States does not make empty threats,” he said in a televised address. Trump’s decision means Iran’s government must now […]
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John Kerry Under Fire for Reported ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Save Iran Deal…
Former Secretary of State John Kerry is under fire over a report claiming that he has been engaged in “shadow diplomacy” with officials from Iran and Europe as part of a final attempt to save the seemingly doomed 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The Boston Globe reported Friday that Kerry sat down twice with Iranian Foreign […]
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Albany Doctor Allegedly Ran Sick Human Experiments for NXIVM…
A doctor described as the resident physician to the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a state oversight board with illegally conducting human experiments. The action comes eight months after the state Health Department refused to act on a complaint from a former cult member who alleged that Dr. Brandon Porter, 44, […]
Admiral Mike Rogers Retires, Turns Over U.S. Cyber Command and NSA to General Paul Nakasone as Unified Combatant Command…
Quietly, almost invisibly today, National Security Agency Director Navy Admiral Mike S Rogers turned over his command to Army General Paul Nakasone. Together with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan, a small but formal ceremony was held at Fort Meade, Maryland, on the same day the U.S. Cyber […]
Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever…
ONE OF THE most outrageous acts of Barack Obama’s presidency was his failure to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. The fiscal year 2012 NDAA included provisions that appeared to both codify and expand a power the executive branch had previously claimed to possess — namely, the power to hold individuals, […]
FBI Undercover Agent Was in Car Behind Terrorists and Failed to Stop Attack…
An FBI undercover agent encouraged a terrorist to “tear up Texas” before the 2015 Garland, Texas shooting, and was at the crime scene and failed to stop or engage the perpetrators. This was revealed in an investigation by CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday. The Garland shooting left two terrorists, Elliot Simpson and Nadir Soofi, […]
Union Pays for I-95 Billboard Expressing ‘No Confidence’ in Sheriff Scott Israel…
A union is ramping up its pressure on embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, paying for a billboard on Interstate 95 telling Gov. Rick Scott that “there is no confidence in Sheriff Israel.” The billboard is just north of Sunrise Boulevard and is visible to southbound drivers. About 85 percent of Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies […]
Congress Offers a Bipartisan Blank Check to Trump for War…
It may be too late. The president of the United States is now a veritable autocrat in the realm of foreign policy. He has been since at least 1945, when the last congressionally declared war finally ended. Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (among other places) were all […]
What Does Iran Have to Do with the 9/11 Attack? Why Would a Judge Award Victims $6B in Damages?…
A judge in the US has issued a default judgement requiring Iran to pay more than $6bn to victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed almost 3,000 people, court filings show. Monday’s ruling in the case – Thomas Burnett, Sr et al v. The Islamic Republic of Iran et al – finds “the […]
Mattis Offers New Criteria for Sending Inmates to Guantánamo…
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that Defense Secretary James Mattis has sent the White House his guidance on transferring new individuals to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Pentagon spokeswoman Cmdr. Sarah Higgins said Mattis “has provided the White House with an updated policy governing the criteria for transfer of individuals to the detention facility at U.S. […]
The Spy Who Came Home…
Shortly after an evening nap, Patrick Skinner drove to the police station in the Third Precinct in Savannah, Georgia, wearing ill-fitting body armor. It was late December, and bitterly cold, and he figured that the weather would bring fewer shootings than usual but more cases of domestic abuse. “Summertime is the murder time,” he said. […]
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