El Helicoide, The Helix, is part of the DNA of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. Dreamed up by three architects in the 1950s, El Helicoide was supposed to be a drive-through shopping mall for the country’s aspiring petro-oligarchy. Built on a hill in the heart of Caracas, the dramatic ocean liner-like edifice “embodied Venezuela’s...
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NSA ‘Unmasking’ More Americans Picked Up By Mass Surveillance
From Statista.com, a revealing glimpse of the growing number of Americans picked up by U.S. national security agencies work. A report released on Tuesday found that there has been a huge rise in the number of identities of U.S. persons revealed by the National Security Agency (NSA). While the process is known as “unmasking”, the term “U.S....
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JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination
[“JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination” by Jefferson Morley was originally published on April 29, 2019 on the Just Security blog.] On April 29, my attorney Dan Hardway filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review my case, Morley v. CIA. When I filed this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
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Echoing Bob Woodward, Republicans Seek an Investigation of Their Own
As House Democrats ramp up their investigations of President Trump in the wake of the revelations of the Mueller Report, congressional Republicans are seeking do to the same, with a boost from an unexpected source, legendary investigative reporter Bob Woodward. Their targets: FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page and former British intelligence...
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British Intelligence Rejects Trump’s ‘Ridiculous’ Spying Charge
British intelligence has rejected claims that it was asked by the administration of former President Barack Obama to spy on then-President Elect Donald Trump after the 2016 presidential election. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the equivalent of America’s National Security Agency, says it never happened. It is true that the GCHQ, which works closely with the...