The U.S. intervention in Venezuela is floundering. In February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was saying the Venezuelan armed forces should see that President Nicholas Maduro’s “time is up” and “change should be at hand.” The hoped-for defections from the Venezuelan military did not happen. Now the administration is still demanding that Maduro leave office,...
Category: Assassination
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How the U.S. Could Prosecute Jamal Khashoggi’s Killers
Lee Bollinger, former president of Columbia University, echoes a suggestion I made last year: U.S. law enforcement could prosecute the killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I wrote here that the use of U.S. communication facilities in furtherance of the crime would give U.S. prosecutors jurisdiction. Writing in The Washington Post Bollinger agrees: The case...
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The Man Who Asked Too Many JFK Questions
The late Charles Thomas belonged to an exclusive, unhappy and forgotten club: U.S. government officials whose efforts to honestly investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 cost them their jobs and reputations. Last week the Washington Post ran an obituary of Cynthia Thomas, the widow of Charles Thomas. It was an unusual...
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Third Suspect in Skripal Poisoning Identified by Bellingcat
The crowd-sourced investigative site Bellingcat has identified a third suspect in the poisoning of Sergey Skripal, the reneged Russian intelligence officer. The report is credible because Bellingcat and collaborators in the independent Russian media broke the the story that two GRU officers were involved in the poisoning of Skirpal, an allegation the Russian government no...
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Power Play: NSA Leaks Implicate MBS in Khashoggi Assassination
The New York Times reports that a wide variety of sources are sharing information about top secret National Security Agency intercepts of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. The story is less interesting for what it tells us about MBS’s complicity in the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October. MBS’s role is well-established. What this...