One open secret of the National Security Agency is its ability to intercept the communications of foreign leaders. That ability, it is safe to say, include Ukraine president Voldymor Zelensky, the target of President Trump’s pressure campaign to extract a public statement about rival Joe Biden. How that Trump has been impeached and faces trial...
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About Time: Spy Museum to Overhaul Its Controversial Torture Exhibit
I wrote about the undercover mission of the International Spy Museum in Washington last year, especially its not-so-subtle message that torture was a policy option, not a war crime. Now the Spy Museum is recalibrating the exhibit to get on the right side of the law. From Buzzfeed News The new exhibit will focus more...
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CIA Officer Warned Against the Meeting that Killed Him
Ten years ago, the CIA suffered its worst attacks ever when a Jordanian doctor, posing as an informant, detonated an explosive vest at the agency’s outpost in Afghanistan. The CIA base chief and six other people were killed, including officer Darren LaBonte. From NBC’s Ken Dilanian. The LaBonte family doesn’t dwell on the errors or...
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ISIS’s Two Biggest Enemies Are Now Fighting Each Other
In Just Security, Luke Hartiwig explains four reasons why killing Soleimani will help ISIS First, the Iraqi government reacted in outrage, both over the killing and what appears to be a failure to seek its consent prior to the operation. This alone may well lead to future restrictions on armed drone operations or U.S. strikes...