U.S. intelligence and media reports often make a fundamental mistake about “terrorists” in the Middle East, says Gregory Johnsen, former Fulbright Scholar in Yemen and well-informed author. IOW, he’s not a Washington armchair pundit. This mistake is this, Johnsen says.
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David Wise, author and CIA expert who exposed ‘invisible government,’ dies at 88
David Wise was co-author of the 1964 best-seller “The Invisible Government,” the first really good book ever written about the CIA. The book, which the CIA sought to suppress, chronicled the excesses of U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA. Wise laid bare the agency’s role in orchestrated coups in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s,...
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How Bellingcat and Russia Insider Unmasked a Suspected Assassin
The crowdsourced investigative site Bellingcat and The Insider (in Russian) have beat their legacy competitors on the story of the Skripal assassination suspects.
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FOIA Watch: The ‘Indiana Jones Warehouse” (or Where the Government Stashes its Oldest Records0
Anyone who uses the Freedom of Information Act to investigate the working of the U.S. government is likely to run into road block called “no responsive records.” For example, when I sued the CIA for the files of George Joannides, a psychological warfare operations officer, I was told the agency had no records responsive to...
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What Happened to Jamal Khashoggi?
NEWS Saudi Arabia What Happened to Jamal Khashoggi?–The disappearance of Saudi journalist fits with a pattern of crude intimidation and silencing of dissent, says former CIA analyst (Al-Monitor). How will Jamal Khashoggi case affect Turkey-Saudi ties?–Erdogan would turn against against Saudi Arabia if it were proven that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, officials say...