Michael Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the shortest-lived national security adviser in U.S. history (24 days), concealed payments from a U.S company seeking to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East. It was known Trump took money. Now SpyTalk (paywall) reports that he took $200,000 more. In June 2017, SpyTalk, then...
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US Intelligence Chief Intervenes to Block Disclosure of State Secrets to Saudi Crown Prince
Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence. From CNNPolitics Simply put, in invoking the state secrets privilege, the most senior US intelligence official is trying to prevent the revelation of classified information in legal proceedings triggered not by an adversary, but by one...
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‘The Dissident’ Unravels the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
A top official in Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), has been implicated in the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi (pronounced “Kash-shoke-gee”) The Office of the Director of the National Intelligence has released a declassified report concluding that the order for the assassination came from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A...
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السعودية: رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة
GIP in English أداة ولي العهد تُعد رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة، بصفتها جهاز استخبارات العائلة المالكة السعودية، أداة أساسية في سلطة ولي العهد محمد بن سلمان، الوريث المرجّح للملك السعودي. وقد استعان محمد بن سلمان برئاسة الاستخبارات العامة لشيطنة من ينتقدون النظام السعودي ومضايقتهم وقمعهم واغتيالهم. لقد أُطلق على أسلوب حكم محمد بن سلمان “السلطوية الإلكترونية“،...
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Former Saudi Intelligence Official Says MBS Is Trying to Kill Him
Under President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the long-standing U.S.-Saudi relationship, lubricated by oil and weapons sales, has degenerated into a gangsterly alliance in which MBS feels free to intimidate his rivals and critics while Jared Kushner pursues business deals. Case in point: former Saudi intelligence chief Saad Aljabri. He was the head...