The testimony of Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, is more bad news for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Cohen says Assange shared his plans to publish the Democratic National Committee emails with Roger Stone, political dirty trickster and confidante of Trump, before the document dump occurred. In his prepared testimony for the...
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Facebook Praises the MEK, an Iranian Cult Movement Known for Killing U.S. Citizens
Facebook has a foreign policy, and it seems to skew toward Israel and Iranian crackpots. Last month, the social media giant announced that (with the advice of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab [DFRLab]) it had removed 783 assets — pages, groups, and accounts — that the company assessed to be associated with an Iran-based network for “coordinated inauthentic...
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Why Trump Is Going After Dan Coats, Not Gina Haspel
Dan Coats, Director of the Office National Intelligence, is a low-key man in hot water, says The Washington Post. Coats got his start in Washington politics as a congressman from Indiana. In the 1980s he was sometimes confused with Dan Quayle, his fellow Hoosier in the House. Quayle was better looking than Coats but a much...
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Washington Post’s Remarkable Story on the Kennedy and King Assassination Letter
One national security veteran told me it is the most remarkable story he has seen in the mainstream media in the past 50 years. It appeared in The Washington Post online edition on Friday, headlined Kennedy, King, Malcolm X relatives and scholars seek new assassination probes. Written by Tom Jackman, the story reported on the open letter...
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In a Challenge to Trump, U.S. Intelligence Targets Russia
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...