Update: as November 12, the Washington Post reports, that ” Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, still hasn’t signed the official letter that would allow the incoming Biden team to formally begin the transition.” The Atlantic reports that more than 100 former U.S. intelligence and national security officials have signed a letter to Murphy...
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As Trump Cabal Plots a Coup, Rubio Defends Haspel at CIA
CIA director Gina Haspel (Credit: Politico) This subtext of this POLITICO story is: how does Senator Marco Rubio stand up to President Trump’s attempt to hinder the transition to President-Elect Biden? He doesn’t. Rather than criticize the president, the Florida Republicans is defending Trump’s next target: CIA director Gina Haspel. After President Trump “terminated” Defense...
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Misinformation 2020 Was Made-in-USA; Russia’s Role Was Tiny
Just how polluted is the news environment during the 2020 presidential election ? A new study, reporting in DefenseOne, a news platform for the military industrial complex, concludes: Very. The study, by Zignal Labs, is careful to distinguish disinformation–deliberate deceptions–from misinformation–erroneous statements. These falsehoods were consumed by audiences across the country, but unevenly, especially...
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Mock Crucifixion Outside FSB Headquarters For Russia’s Political Prisoners
На Лубянке сейчас так pic.twitter.com/mHqAeEYte6 — Илья Яшин (@IlyaYashin) November 5, 2020 Last June Anastasia Shevchenko became the first person to be criminally charged under the law on “undesirable organizations” that came into force in May 2015, according to Amnesty International. The law gives the government the power to ban activities of foreign or international...
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Trump’s ‘Incendiary’ Words Light No Fires–So Far
After a summer in which Attorney General Bill Barr dispatched unidentified federal agents to confront racial justiice protesters in Portland and an armed gang descended on the capital of Michigan to protest the tyranny of face masks, the threat of violence around the November 3 election could not be discounted. So, far it hasn’t materialized....