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...
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CIA Formers Fear ‘Ignorance and Psychosis’ in the White House
A surge of public activism by former CIA personnel is one of the most unexpected developments of the Trump presidency, and it is accelerating. Two former CIA officers—both Democrats, both women, both liberal—were elected to Congress on November 6. Abigail Spanberger, former operations officer, was elected in Virginia’s 7th District. Elissa Slotkin, former analyst, won...
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Documents Show Obama’s CIA Intercepted Emails About Whistleblowers
The leftist Consortium News and the rightist Daily Caller are on the same page about the findings of the whistleblower investigation of Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). This week Grassley obtained CIA documents that show Charles McCullough III, who served as the Intelligence Community’s watchdog, informed Congress in 2014 that “routine counterintelligence” enabled the CIA’s security division to read...
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What is the Terrorist Threat to the United States Today?
The New American Foundation, a reliable centrist source on national security, parses 20 years of data. the attacks are not national catastrophes of the type the United States experienced on 9/11. Instead the death toll has been quite similar to other forms of political—and even non-political—violence Americans face today. The data suggests America’s fast growing ...