Spygate began with the Clinton campaign. It ended with informants and eavesdropping on the Trump campaign. Clinton opposition research morphed into an endless investigation of her opponent. The Clinton campaign and its opposition research were the starting point of Spygate. And Mueller’s hound dog face scowling from a thousand CNN screens (roughly its viewership when […]
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One Teen and Three FBI Operatives: Was the Government Behind a 17-Year-Old’s Terror Plot in Texas…
Toward the end of last year, as the Islamic State was collapsing in Iraq and Syria, a 17-year-old Texas high school student named Matin Azizi-Yarand began an online conversation. He had found a fellow traveler on the internet, and was hashing out whether to leave the United States to join ISIS abroad or carry out […]
Confidential Informants Are An Integral But Part of the Federal Law Enforcement…
Robert P. Johnson thought he had a shot at being best man at the wedding of his friend and workout buddy, Christopher J. Billings. Instead, he was indicted federally three weeks before the wedding for conspiring to sell cocaine, based on the account of a confidential informant. When prosecutors provided a glimpse of the evidence […]
Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Navy Seal for Controversial Mission in Afghanistan…
Six months after the 9/11 attacks, then-Senior Chief Petty Officer Britt Slabinski led a seven-man Navy SEAL Team Six unit to set up an observation post in eastern Afghanistan atop a 10,000-foot mountain known as Takur Ghar, to support U.S. forces in the valley below battling Al Qaeda in an operation known as Anaconda. In […]
The Emerging China-Iran-Pakistan Alliance Is Directed DECIDEDLY Against the United States…
In a January 10, 2018 Daily Caller article titled “China May Have Just Brokered An Iran-Pakistan Accommodation,” I outlined the extensive diplomatic and military initiatives underway in the past year to foster reconciliation between Iran and Pakistan, orchestrated behind the scenes by China. That strategy supports the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s blueprint for […]
War Games: The Cozy Relationship Between Perpetual War and Entertainment…
The average civilian can be forgiven for thinking that wars happen on battlefields. For an American public long intoxicated on a heady cocktail of jingoistic action films and gaudy halftime shows, the site of conflict is the stage on which the war is performed. What’s more, military tradition has also long revered battlefield sagas. Names […]
“What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals Of MS-13” A White House Primer…
In response to last week’s controversy after President Trump referred to MS-13 gang members as “animals,” the White House has published a handy primer on the organization. After originating in Los Angeles during the 1980s, MS-13 has a heavy presence in California, Boston, New York City, Houston and elsewhere. Most of its members are originally […]
Dem Sen Warner: No ‘Single Piece of Legislation’ Would Have Stopped TX School Shooting…
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said there was not “a single piece of legislation” that would have prevented the recent school shooting in Texas. Warner said, “I don’t think there’s a single piece of legislation, but there’s a series of actions. Are there things we can do that would […]
Asylum Cases Shot Up a Whopping 1,750 Percent Under Obama…
The number of non-Americans who claimed asylum increased 1,750 percent during former President Barack Obama’s administration, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon. “We have seen a 1,750 percent increase in the number of fear claims being made in the expedited removal process between FY 2008 and FY […]
Secretary of State Pompeo Threatens Iran with ‘Strongest Sanction in History,’ Outlines New Nuclear Demands…
Saying the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration had “fatal flaws,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said the U.S. was preparing “the strongest sanctions in history” if Tehran did not change its destabilizing ways and forever abandon its drive for nuclear weapons. In an address to the Heritage Foundation, Mr. […]
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What the North Koreans Told Me About Their Plans…
What exactly do the North Koreans mean when they say they’re willing to denuclearize? And how exactly would they do so? These are the key mysteries at the heart of the upcoming Trump-Kim summit—and indeed they threatened to derail the whole thing this week when Kim Jong Un objected to National-Security Adviser John Bolton’s vision […]
At Least 8 Killed in Santa Fe High School Shooting…
Law enforcement sources confirm to ABC13 at least 8 people are dead following a shooting inside Santa Fe High School. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says one suspect is in custody and a second one is detained. According to law enforcement agencies, it appears the shooter is a student. The school district just issued the […]
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Gina Haspel Confirmed As First Woman to Run CIA…
The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel Thursday as CIA director, making her the first woman to run the spy agency. Haspel, who spent three decades at the agency and much of it undercover, earned support from six Democrats after she pledged not to restart waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques used in the wake of 9/11. “There […]
Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks…
Last week, while watching Benjamin Netanyahu unveil secret information that supposedly proved that Iran is deceiving the world about its nuclear-weapons program, I had a flashback. It was to February 5, 2003, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell unveiled secret information that supposedly proved that Iraq was deceiving the world about its nuclear, chemical, and […]
Armed Officer STOPS School Shooting in Illinois…
A potential disaster was averted Wednesday morning after an armed officer shot a would-be school shooter at Dixon High School in Illinois; thwarting the attack before the gunman could reach other students. The suspected gunman reportedly arrived at the local high school at approximately 8:00am, engaged the officer who returned fire, and was subsequently taken […]
Haspel Secures Enough Senate Support for Confirmation As CIA Director…
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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