On Tuesday, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, sat just yards from Dr. James Mitchell, who waterboarded him 183 times in a CIA black site in Poland in March 2003. The encounter took place in a courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. enclave in Cuba where suspected terrorists are held. From The...
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The ‘Deep State’ Isn’t a Conspiracy. It’s a Political Faction
[This story was first published in The New Republic as “‘The Deep State’ Is a Political Party,” November 8, 2019)] It was, in the eyes of Trump World, the very clubhouse of the Deep State: the plush, blue-carpeted, wood-paneled 13th floor auditorium of the National Press Club, located in the heart of the Washington swamp,...
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The ADL Smeared Me. So I Complained to the Anti-Defamation League.
A Jewish friend from Queens emailed me last week, “Oh look, you, Phil Weiss and Max Blumenthal are being called anti-semitic by ADL” I checked out the link. Our reportage and commentary was included in an ADL blog post on “anti-semitic responses” to the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. How was my alleged anti-semitism...
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About Time: Spy Museum to Overhaul Its Controversial Torture Exhibit
I wrote about the undercover mission of the International Spy Museum in Washington last year, especially its not-so-subtle message that torture was a policy option, not a war crime. Now the Spy Museum is recalibrating the exhibit to get on the right side of the law. From Buzzfeed News The new exhibit will focus more...
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