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Gen. Oswald Pena

Colombian Spy Chief Resigns Over Fake Dossier Linking Rebels to Venezuela 

How often have we learned about doctored intelligence, “dodgy dossiers,” and fixing the facts to the policy? Sixteen years ago, the bogus evidence of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and the infamous Downing Street memo, showed how the deceptions of intelligence agencies drove the fiasco of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Last week it happened...

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Yevgeny Prigozhin

What Mueller Didn’t Say About ‘Putin’s Prince’ and His Troll Factory

(This article was first published on Just Security) The narrow testimony and contentious questioning of Robert Mueller has raised questions on the political left as well as the right about one of his most significant findings related to Russia’s secret efforts to influence the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump: the social media...

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Steve Bannon

The Russian Connection to the Seth Rich Conspiracy Theories

The conspiracy theory that DNC staffer Seth Rich was killed for political reasons in the summer of 2016 originated with a Russian intelligence service, according to Yahoo News, and was spread through alt-right media outlets and promoted by Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Julian Assange, much to the dismay of prosecutors and Rich’s family. “To...

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