When it comes to war, peace and the secret agencies, Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t have much to say in the 2016 campaign. Running against Hillary Clinton, Sanders focused almost exclusively on domestic issues. When pressed on foreign policy, he generally repeated a talking point and pivoted back to domestic issues. No more. Now Sanders, with...
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Getting to Know Elliott Abrams
On the District Sentinel radio show, I talked about my latest Deep State story on Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela and veteran of U.S. regime change operations in Latin America. The best way to understand Abrams and Trump’s policy toward the bitterly divided South American country is to know Abrams’ record in...
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Why Trump Is Going After Dan Coats, Not Gina Haspel
Dan Coats, Director of the Office National Intelligence, is a low-key man in hot water, says The Washington Post. Coats got his start in Washington politics as a congressman from Indiana. In the 1980s he was sometimes confused with Dan Quayle, his fellow Hoosier in the House. Quayle was better looking than Coats but a much...
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Not a Coup: Bipartisan Gang Of 8 Did Not Object to FBI’s Trump Probe
The “Gang of Eight” is Washington shorthand for the congressional leaders who are privy to almost all secret intelligence information held by the U.S. government. They are the majority and minority leaders in the Senate, the Speaker of the House and the House minority leader, and the ranking Democrats and Republicans on the House and...
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Ex-CIA Operations Chief on Venezuela: ‘Not Over Anytime Soon’
“This is a sustained effort,’ Devine said. “I don’t think its over anytime soon.” The former chief of the CIA’s worldwide operations, Jack Devine, told Bloomberg says U.S. intervention to oust Nicholas Maduro is a “proxy war with Russia” that will last a long time. By “this” Devine means the Trump administration’s “regime change” policy. See “CIA...