Five weeks into the criminal trial for the alleged ringleader of the deadly Benghazi attacks, prosecutors called their star witness Monday: a Libyan businessman whom the U.S. government paid more than $7 million in a high-stakes operation to befriend and capture the key suspect. Taking the stand before a federal court jury in Washington, the […]
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Central Americans and Haitians No Longer Need Protected Status…
More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the State Department told Homeland Security officials this week, a few days ahead of a highly anticipated DHS announcement about whether to renew that protection. On Tuesday, Secretary of […]
What Is Fat Leonard Scandal? 440 Navy Officials Investigated for Taking Bribes…
Investigation into the “Fat Leonard Scandal” has expanded to include 440 active-duty and retired personnel, including 60 current and former admirals, of the U.S. Navy, according to reports. Reports said these personnel might have violated military law or federal ethic rules in their dealings with Leonard Glenn Francis, a Singapore-based maritime…
‘The Message From Mattis Is Basically Square Your Shit’: DoD Scrambles for Facts in Niger…
In the month since four Army Special Forces and five local security forces troops were killed by jihadi-aligned militants in Niger, the Department of Defense has insisted that the ambush was a complete surprise, catching the joint patrol off guard while they were on a routine mission to meet with local leaders in a village […]
Deserter Bergdahl Gets No Jail Time, Dishonorably Discharged…
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former Taliban captive who pleaded guilty last month to deserting his combat post in Afghanistan and endangering his fellow troops, will not serve prison time, a military judge ruled Friday. The judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, sentenced Bergdahl to forfeit $10,000 in pay, a reduction in rank to E-1 […]
The Real Scandal of the Declassified Osama bin Laden Trove Implicates Obama and the CIA…
The Central Intelligence Agency has finally declassified and released hundreds of thousands of documents it seized when it liquidated al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Initially, the Obama administration released only a handful of documents which, divorced from the context of the larger trove, appeared to support its narrative that the war…
CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran…
The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America’s military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned…
How Afghans View the Endless U.S. War…
On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers‘ (APV) Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, 30 mothers sat cross-legged along the walls of a large meeting room. Masoumah, who co-coordinates the Center’s “Street Kids School” project, had invited the mothers to a parents meeting. Burka-clad women who wore the veil over their faces looked identical…
Bridge, Crewmembers’ Errors Led to Deaths Aboard 2 Navy Destroyers…
The two collisions that killed a combined 17 sailors aboard the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain resulted from sailors not following procedures and lack of communication between officers and the rest of the ship, a Navy report released Wednesday concluded. Watch-standers aboard USS Fitzgerald were not paying attention to the right-hand side […]
CIA Releases Massive 470,000 Page Release of Files Captured During 2011 Bin Laden Raid in Pakistan…
Beware, be careful – The CIA site presents a raft of warnings about the content of the downloads: The material in this file collection may contain content that is… Prior to accessing this file collection, please understand that this material was seized from a terrorist organization. While the files underwent interagency review, there is no […]
In Shocking, Viral Interview, Qatar Confesses Secrets Behind Syrian War…
A television interview of a top Qatari official confessing the truth behind the origins of the war in Syria is going viral across Arabic social media during the same week a leaked top secret NSA document was published which confirms that the armed opposition in Syria was under the direct command of foreign governments from […]
Navy SEALs Suspected of Strangling, Killing Army Green Beret in Africa…
Two Navy SEALs from SEAL Team 6 are reportedly “persons of interest” in the investigation to determine who strangled and killed an Army Green Beret in Mali, West Africa, in June. The New York Times first reported on Sunday that Navy criminal authorities are looking into whether or not two members of SEAL Team 6 […]
U.S. Special Operations Forces Capture Key Militant in Benghazi Attack…
U.S. special operations forces have captured a “key” militant involved in the 2012 attack on an American diplomatic facility in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left four dead and sparked an ongoing political firestorm, unnamed U.S. government officials told the Associated Press. The U.S. officials identified the captured suspect to the Associated Press as […]
Civilian Lawyers Defy Judge’s Order to Travel to Guantánamo for War Court Showdown…
A Pentagon shuttle departed for Guantánamo Sunday morning without three civilian lawyers who quit the USS Cole case, setting the stage for a showdown Monday with the military judge who ordered them to the remote U.S. Navy base in Cuba. Veteran death-penalty defense attorney Rick Kammen and colleagues Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears resigned from […]
Wife of Paralyzed Soldier Who Was Shot in the Head Searching for Bowe Bergdahl…
The wife of a soldier seriously wounded while searching for Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl has given an emotional testimony about the effects of his brain trauma on their family. Prosecutors called Shannon Allen to the stand in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Monday to discuss the injuries suffered by her husband when he was shot […]
Mattis Visits Korean DMZ Amidst Nuclear Tension…
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis visited Friday morning the heavily fortified border between North Korea and South Korea known as the Demilitarized Zone amid heightened tensions over the North’s nuclear program and the war of words between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. At the DMZ, Mattis was briefed at Observation Point Oullette by South […]
DEA Deploys Six Regional Teams to Fight Opioid, Fentanyl Trafficking…
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Friday it has created six regional enforcement teams to target heroin and fentanyl trafficking, a day after President Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. The enforcement teams will be based in communities that are facing major addiction challenges: New Bedford, Mass.; Charleston, W.Va.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; […]
U.S. Double Standards in the New Cold War by Stephen F. Cohen…
Moscow and Washington have conflicting narratives, expressed in their respective mass media and periodic “diplomacy,” regarding the history, causes, and nature of the new Cold War. Not surprisingly, both narratives are often self-serving and unbalanced. But, Cohen argues, the near-consensual version presented in the mainstream media of the American establishment particularly lacks balance…
Trump Directs State, USAID to Bypass United Nations, Deliver U.S. Aid More Directly to Christians, Yazidis in Iraq…
President Trump has issued a White House directive forcing the State Department and USAID to bypass the United Nations and stop its “ineffective” relief efforts aimed at helping Iraqi Christians, Yazidis, and other persecuted religious minorities, and instead to provide the assistance either directly or through “faith-based groups.” Vice President Mike Pence, in a speech […]
Trump’s Border Wall Prototypes Unveiled…
Nearly a year after President Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory, the first step to fulfill the central pillar of his campaign—a promise to build a wall along the country’s southern border—has taken shape along the perimeter between San Diego and Mexico. The construction of eight prototypes is complete, and they will now face a battery […]
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