It is safe to say President Trump did not read the new National Intelligence Strategy of the United States released on Tuesday. Which is a good thing. The document shows the intelligence community (IC), meaning the 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, is mobilized against the threat posed by Trump, his incoherent impulses on war and peace, and...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Why the CIA Loved the Late George H. Bush
Last month, 19 senior CIA officials, current and former, signed a statement lauding the late president George Bush, who served as CIA director for one year. The agency put out a complimentary “unclassified” video about his service to the agency. Langley’s Twitter feed featured 11 straight days of photos and anecdotes about Bush’s warm relationship...
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King and Kennedy Family Members Call for New Assassination Investigations
The sons of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy are calling for reopening the investigations of their father’s deaths in 1968. In a letter signed by 60 people, Martin Luther King III and RFK Jr. called on the government “to reopen the investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin...
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Whitewash: CIA Tweets in Honor of MLK, the Man They Spied On
The CIA is nothing, if not shameless. Fifty three years ago, the agency with the help of the FBI and local police, was spying on Martin Luther King as he passed through Miami. The agency wanted to know more about one of his associates said to be “a member of the Communist party.” They were...
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Bush Ran a Secret National Security Team as VP, Says Seymour Hersh
The veteran investigative reporter writes that George H. Bush, as vice president, ran a covert operations team in the early 1980s that even the CIA didn’t know about. As a former CIA director, Bush had the experience to oversee activities. Hersh says the vice president’s team ran 35 counterterrorism, counternarcotics and assassination operations between 1981...