Two thousand former employees of the Justice Department and FBI have signed an open letter protesting the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. They urge Judge Amy Sullivan to ignore the dismissal. We urge Judge Sullivan to closely examine the Department’s stated rationale for dismissing the charges —...
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Wild Podcast Tale About CIA & a Heavy Metal Band
A few weeks ago, I asked “Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op?” It wasn’t an idle question. The influence of secret intelligence agencies on culture is more complex than you think. Now New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe is asking, “Did the CIA write Scorpions’ hit song Wind of Change? The Scorpions are a German rock band....
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The Secret Military Task Force Tasked With Securing the Capital
This from Bill Arkin, highly reliable military affairs correspondent and co-author (with Dana Priest) of the one the best books about the secret sector of the U.S. government. Activated on March 16, Joint Task Force National Capital Region (JTF-NCR) is chartered to “defend” Washington on land, in the air, and even on its waterfronts. The...
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The Steele Dossier Looks Weaker Than Ever
This comes rom a batch of footnotes to a December 2019 report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz that were declassified this month in two tranches, one from the Justice Department and one from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The 400-plus-page document pounded the FBI for its handling of applications under the Foreign...
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Inside Trump’s War on the Deep State Agencies
David Rohde, former New York Times reporter, is publishing a book about Trump’s conception of the “deep state.” In an interesting interview with Terry Gross of NPR, Rohde explains how President Trump has successfully politicized the intelligence community and turned his critics among the former spy chiefs into useful foils–even decoys–for his own ambitions. I...