Four Democratic candidates have sworn off all PAC contributions. Nine have pledged not to take money from the fossil fuel industry. But what do the candidates say–and do–about contributions from the arms industry? So far, not much. Almost 60 years ago, retiring Republican President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the “unwarranted influence” of the “military-industrial complex”...
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Mueller Redacted: GRU Used Wikileaks But Did Not Conspire With Trump
While Russian military intelligence operatives hacked the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton, they used the radical transparency organization Wikileaks to disseminate the stolen material, according to the report of special prosecutor Robert Mueller partially released Thursday. President Trump’s campaign actively pursued the stolen material and communicated with Wikileaks about how it could be deployed against...
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A Night of Angst from Spies and Journalists
Some of the folks whom President Trump has smeared as “enemies of the people” took to the speaker’s platform at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Tuesday night. Attended by senior journalists and intelligence professionals, the event, “Breaking News: U.S. Intelligence and The Press,” was affably insiderish in the Washington way. Former acting CIA...
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Trump Gives 2020 Democrats a National Security ‘Opportunity,’ Says Rep. Moulton
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts congressman and a former Marine, is contemplating a run for the presidency. He says national security and military issues are at the center of his message. He insists Trump’s handling of issues of war and peace gives an opening to Democrats in the 2020 election. “I recognize that the polling...
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Mueller’s Report and Trump’s ‘Cunning’
Some version of the report by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller III will be released on Thursday. In the following article, which first appeared in the London Review of Books, Yale professor David Bromwich puts the report—and the last two years of the Trump-Russian investigation— in context. By David Bromwich On 22 March, Robert Mueller, the...