President Trump’s “fire and fury” rhetoric no longer drives the news cycle. Nor does the pomp and circumstance of his Singapore summit with North Kore’s Kim Jong Un. The most recent denuclearization talks between the United States, North Korea, and South Korea were cancelled earlier this month. All the while, the U.S. and South Korean intelligence...
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Trump Sides With Saudis Over CIA
CIA director Gina Haspel now occupies the warmest chairs in Washington. With President Trump’s statement Tuesday that “we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi,” the agency’s findings in the case of murdered Saudi journalist have been trashed. Congress wants to hear from Haspel, finding her more a credible source...
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Doctors Diagnosis of CIA: Medical Complicity in Torture Program Was Sick
Physicians for Human Rights doesn’t mince words about release of a top secret report on CIA doctors who worked in the torture program between 2002 and 2009. The ACLU obtained the internal history last week. The 90-page document provides a chilling account of how CIA health professionals willingly participated in torture. The “Summary and Reflections” of...
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Haspel and Bolton Diverged Over Khashoggi Evidence
President Trump is trying save the U.S.-Saudi alliance (and his administration’s campaign against Iran) from the notoriety of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Who’s he going to listen to? Washington Post reports CIA director Gina Haspel has told Trump U.S. intelligence has concluded MbS ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Bolton told Trump the...
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Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic Defense
If Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has a certain New York panache that drives conservatives batty, Rep. Elissa Slotkin does Midwestern Nice in a way that will irritate no one. And I mean that as a compliment. Slotkin, a former CIA officer and Pentagon policymaker, was just elected from Michigan’s 8th District, a diverse swath of central...