When Manuel Figuera, the chief of the Venezuelan intelligence service (SEBIN), turned on the government of President Nicolas Maduro last week, the Trump administration thought their goal of regime change was in sight. If Figuera joined opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s government in exile, SEBIN could both control the country and secure recognition of Washington. With...
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JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination
[“JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination” by Jefferson Morley was originally published on April 29, 2019 on the Just Security blog.] On April 29, my attorney Dan Hardway filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review my case, Morley v. CIA. When I filed this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
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Under Mueller’s Questioning, Trump’s ‘Great Memory’ Failed 30 Times
The president’s self-proclaimed “great memory” failed him when he responded in writing to questions from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller in November 2018. A month later, Mueller told Trump’s lawyers about “the insufficiency of those responses. ….We noted, among other things, that the President stated on more than 30 occasions that he “does not ‘ recall’...
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Mueller Redacted: GRU Used Wikileaks But Did Not Conspire With Trump
While Russian military intelligence operatives hacked the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton, they used the radical transparency organization Wikileaks to disseminate the stolen material, according to the report of special prosecutor Robert Mueller partially released Thursday. President Trump’s campaign actively pursued the stolen material and communicated with Wikileaks about how it could be deployed against...
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Mueller’s Report and Trump’s ‘Cunning’
Some version of the report by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller III will be released on Thursday. In the following article, which first appeared in the London Review of Books, Yale professor David Bromwich puts the report—and the last two years of the Trump-Russian investigation— in context. By David Bromwich On 22 March, Robert Mueller, the...