The conversations recorded prior to and during the Oct. 2, 2018 murder of the dissident journalist at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate were obtained by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) right after the gruesome incident, and were shared with related Turkish authorities carrying out an investigation into the incident, as well as with international officials and...
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Why Russian Media Identified the Alleged CIA Agent, While U.S. Outlets Did Not
Mulitple Russian news sites identified the CIA spy exfiltrated from Russia because of concerns about his safety, while U.S. news outlets did not. He is Oleg Smolenkov, an assistant to a top foreign policy adviser to President Vladimir Putin. American outlets reported the asset fed the CIA secrets for years and was able to photograph...
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Border Patrol to Put an Indian Reservation Under Persistent Surveillance
In his book “Eyes in the Sky,” Arthur Michel Holland argues that “persistent surveillance” of American communities via “wide-area motion imagery” or WAMI, is all but inevitable. The evidence is mounting that he is right. Last month the Guardian reported on the Pentagon is testing surveillance balloons over five Midwestern States. Now an Indian reservation...
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House Intelligence Committee Opens Investigation into Trump-Giuliani Ukraine Scheme
The chairmen of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight Committee have opened an investigation of President Trump’s efforts to enlist the Ukraine government in his re-election campaign. The chief target, the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Buzzfeed has the details of how two men working for Giuliani sought “information that could be weaponized in the...
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US Extracted Top Spy from Russia Amid Concerns about Trump
There have been times when the CIA didn’t trust the president. JFK, Nixon, and Carter for example. But those differences concerned policy, not the keeping of secrets. With Trump, the agency doesn’t trust him to protect the identify of their spies. So they pulled a spy out of Russia, rather than risk his life. The...