Security camera footage was removed from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and Turkish staff were abruptly told to take a holiday on the day the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared while inside the building, Turkish authorities have claimed. A week after Khashoggi vanished in the heart of Turkey’s biggest city, details of the investigation into […]
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Missing Case: CCTV Disappears from Saudi Consulate in Turkey…
Did the Saudis Murder Journalist Jamal Khashoggi?…
The last time I spoke with Jamal Khashoggi, in August, he was worried about his life. The Saudi dissident, a fifty-nine-year-old former editor and government adviser, was convinced that the kingdom’s new leadership wanted to kill him. “Of course, they’d like to see me out of the picture,” he said. He’d said it to me […]
The Royal Touch: How Saudi Money Keeps Washington at War in Yemen…
It was May 2017. The Saudis were growing increasingly nervous. For more than two years they had been relying heavily on U.S. military support and bombs to defeat Houthi rebels in Yemen. Now, the Senate was considering a bipartisan resolution to cut off military aid and halt a big sale of American-made bombs to Saudi […]
Judge: No Blanket Secrecy for 9/11 Documents Saudis Want Kept Secret…
With support rising in the Senate for a resolution urging a broad declassification of government records related to 9/11, a judge has ruled that Saudi Arabia isn’t entitled to blanket secrecy for documents it produces in court. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn’s Aug. 27 ruling means that certain “highly sensitive” Saudi diplomatic and consular files, […]
Are the Interventionists Now Leaderless? by Patrick J. Buchanan…
“McCain’s Death Leaves Void” ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began: “The death of John McCain will leave Congress without perhaps its loudest voice in support of the robust internationalism that has defined the country’s security relations since World War II.” Certainly, the passing of the senator whose life story […]
Saudi Arabia Condemns UN Report on Yemen War Crimes…
A Tuesday report released b the UN confirmed in considerable detail misdeeds by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, killing thousands of civilians in Yemen, raping and torturing detainees, and using child soldiers. The report warned these may amount to war crimes. While they didn’t specifically dispute any of this, Saudi Arabia was predictably furious about […]
Yemen: United Nations Experts Point to Possible War Crimes by Parties to the Conflict…
VIPS Tells the Media Support for Brennan is Not Unanimous…
As former members of the intelligence community, we feel compelled to add our voice to the public debate surrounding President Trump’s revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. This action is being falsely portrayed as an assault on Mr. Brennan’s right to free speech. We note that some of our former colleagues, a […]
Yes, It’s Relevant That a Virginia Democrat Running for Congress Taught at a School Dubbed ‘Terror High’…
Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who is challenging Republican Rep. David Brat this fall, says the Congressional Leadership Fund illegally obtained sensitive personal information about her from her federal security clearance. The PAC obtained information about how the former CIA officer had worked at the Islamic Saudi Academy, a high school in Northern Virginia which has graduated […]
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