If you think some former U.S. intelligence officials have been harsh in their criticism of President Trump, well, they’re getting harsher. In the wake of the mail bomb arrest and the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings, James Clapper and Michael Hayden are likening President Trump’s political rhetoric to radicalization tactics used by terrorists. Clapper, former director of...
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Boom Times for Special Ops
The American middle-class may be strapped but the secret sectors of the U.S. government are flush. U.S. military intelligence spending increased 18 percent in the past two years, continuing a trend that began late in the Obama administration. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) dropped the numbers yesterday, and they show secret government...
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Mosque #AirStrikes Point to Looser DIA Targeting Rules Against ISIS
U.S. Central Command has acknowledged U.S. fighter jets recently bombed three mosques in ISIS-held territory in Syria. The guidelines of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) usually prohibit such attacks, according to reporter Jack Detsch of al-Monitor, the reliable. Washington-based Middle East news site.
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CIA Chief Heard Recording of Khashoggi Killing
Gina Haspel is well-qualified for her intelligence gathering mission to Turkey in the Khashoggi affair. Haspel is known to have served as an intelligence officer in Turkey and one top former CIA official told me she speaks Turkish. So Haspel was able to talk, without interpreters, Hakan Fidan, chief of the Turkish intelligence service, the MIT....
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The Art of Hidden Power
Conspiracy theories seek to explain the workings of hidden power. Because there is lots of hidden power in this country and the world, we have lots of conspiratorial thinking. Which gives us both Alex Jones lunacy and the finest of art.