Mercenary Erik Prince is in negotiations to buy Motor Sich, a Ukrainian aerospace company that the U.S. government wants to prevent the Chinese government from acquiring, according to the Wall Street Journal. Jeremy Scahill, who wrote the book on Prince’s private military company, Blackwater, talks with Intercept colleague about Prince’s business model: the privatization of...
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Thanks to Rand Paul, Russian Media Are Naming the Alleged Ukraine Whistleblower
Shortly after Sen. Paul tweeted out an article that speculated in considerable detail about the identity of the whistleblower—with a photograph, a name, and details about the purported political history of a CIA professional—Russian state media followed suit. As if on cue, the Kremlin-controlled heavy hitters—TASS, RT, Rossiya-1—disseminated the same information. But unlike Rand Paul,...
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Firm Hired by Ukraine’s Burisma Tried to Use Hunter Biden as Leverage
Joe Biden’s vulnerability to President Trump’s attacks on his son’s business dealings in Ukraine are illustrated by this Wall Street Journal report. There’s still a lot we don’t know about Biden’s sinecure with the Burisama, an energy company assembled by a corrupt oligarch. The documents—email exchanges between State Department staff members made public this week—show...
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‘Hatchet Job on Their Own Intelligence Services”
The Ukrainians weren’t the only ones pressured to help President Trump’s 2020 campaign. Attorney General Bill Barr also put the squeeze the British. From U.K.’s liberal The Independent One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking,...
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The Oldest Spy Service: MI6 For Beginners
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) MI6 in the news: ‘Hatchet Job on Their Own Intelligence Services‘ (Nov. 2, 2019) British Intelligence Doesn’t Like Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn (Oct. 9, 2019) Why Prince William Studies at MI6 (April 15, 20190 MI6 Spy Chief to Stay Through Brexit (02/13/2019) The British intelligence Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known...