From Nick Turse, one of the world’s leading experts on U.S. Special Operations Command: Today, more U.S. commandos are deployed to Africa than to any other region of the world except the Middle East. Back in 2006, there were only 70 special operators deployed across Africa. Source: U.S. Secret Wars in Africa Rage on, Despite...
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Declassified records show extent of CIA’s involvement in efforts to discredit Daniel Ellsberg
During the Watergate scandal, the CIA distanced itself from the burglars arrested at the Democratic National Committee but a newly declassified records, obtain by MuckRock, reveals just how much the agency supported President Nixon’s dirty tricksters. A previously classified document that the Central Intelligence Agency provided to Congress during the investigation of the Watergate affair shows that...
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On the Day He was Nominated, Brett Kavanaugh Ruled for the CIA and Against Me
ON A MONDAY AFTERNOON, on July 9, the D.C. Court of Appeals handed down a 2-1 decision against me and in favor of the CIA in a long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. At 4:20 p.m., Judges Brett Kavanaugh and Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee, filed a 14-page opinion with the clerk of the court in Washington. They ruled that the...
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Timothy Snyder Explains the Great Russian Disinformation Campaign
Yale historian Timothy Snyder was among the first to recognize the effectiveness of influence operations launched by the Russian intelligence services. Vladimir Putin’s campaign to destabilize Ukraine 2014 was the model. Russia’s intervention in America’s 2016 election did not have the paramilitary component of “little green men” (plainclothes special operations commandos) seen in Ukraine but...
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Edward Snowden Denies Being a Russian Spy (Again)
The former IT administrator turned whistle blower told a German newspaper: Believe me, the CIA does have its sources inside Russian intelligence. If I was a Russian spy, the U.S. would know. And it would be on the front page of every newspaper