Weisselberg received renewed congressional attention after disgraced Trump fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday repeatedly mentioned the Trump Org CFO as crucial to various aspects of dubiously legal practices by President Donald Trump, from the Stormy Daniels hush-money payments to potential insurance fraud. Source: House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
Post
Post
Eyes in the Sky: A Conference on Aerial Surveillance
The Project on Government Oversight, otherwise known as POGO, is a Washington pubic interest group, on the cutting edge of accountability. POGO is calling attention to the growth of aerial surveillance in America with a conference on March 7. This is not the NSA-CIA version of spying–mass surveillance and espionage–but a more ordinary task carried...
Post
The Ancient History of Espionage
British intelligence historian Christopher Andrew via The National Interest, the first books to argue that intelligence should have a central role in war and peace were written not in classical Greece or Rome but in ancient China and the Indian subcontinent: The Art of War (Sunzi bingfa), traditionally ascribed to Confucius’s contemporary, the Chinese general...
Post
What Erdogan Wants from Jared Kushner
With all eyeballs split between Trump in Hanoi and Michael Cohen, Jared Kushner’s Middle East Tour has gone unnoticed. The president’s son-in-law met with Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is not in a pro-American mood. Erdogan thought he had secured a complete U.S. withdrawal from Syria, but no, administration hawks have succeeded to keep a...
Post
Democrats Abandon South Korea’s President in Favor of Hawks
As Democrats in Washington reflexively “get tough” on North Korea, they kick away a chance a for peace on the Korean peninsula. Eager to criticize President Trump, they overlook the reality that denuclearization and ending the Korean war are popular ideas in South Korea. As Ploughshares director Joe Cirincione explains, Trump’s diplomacy is is worth...