The ugliness of President Trump’s attacks on the whistleblower who first exposed his scheme to extract political favors from the Ukraine government has reached its logical culmination. Mark Zaid, the whistleblower’s attorney, received a death threat last year that has resulted in the arrest of a supporter of the president. The email came from Brittan...
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Trump’s Intelligence Purge Rattles National Security Establishment
Former CIA director John Brennan calls it a “full blown national security crisis.” Soon to be ex-acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire says Congress that Russia is seeking to influence in the 2020 presidential election on behalf of President Trump. Trump is replacing Maguire with Richard Grenell, a former spokesman for U.S. Ambassador...
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Maxim Yakubets, Russia’s Top Hacker, Has Ties to Russia’s FSB
This story comes, not from Western intelligence agencies (which have a vested interest in elevating the threat of Russia) but from the independent Russian media, which has a vested interest in exposing how the country’s opaque authoritarian regime functions. Here investigative journalist Liliya Yapparova from Meduza explores the hacking collective known as Evil Corp and...
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Are UFOs Real? Official Secrecy Shrouds U.S. Government Research
This lengthy piece from Popular Mechanics doesn’t argue that UFO’s are real, merely that the U.S. government studied the phenomenon of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) far more closely–and secretly–than it cares to publicly admit, and several U.S. senators spearheaded funding for the UAP research, both public and private. These revelations comes from an avalanche of...
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The CIA’s ‘Wake-Up Call’ for Obama on Russian Hacking Is Still Classified
The American people still don’t know some of the most significant details of Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election. Four years after the fact, the story is still redacted. The Washington Examiner extracted that revelation from the latest Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian intervention in U.S. elections. “The administration was not fully engaged until...