The disappeared Saudi dissident was kidnapped, says one former U.S. official quoted by the Washington Post. The arrival and rapid departure of a Saudi security team “bore the hallmarks of a “rendition,” the official said. Khashoggi got the same treatment as terror suspects renditioned by the United states,(although the U.S. does not usually kill and dismember...
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AP Confirms Bellingcat: Russian Suspect in UK Poisoning, Is Hero to His Home Village
“Alexander Petrov,” a Russian man accused of an assassination attempt in England, is actually a decorated GRU officer named Alexander Mishkin. The story, first reported by Bellingcat, the crowd-sourced investigative site, and The Insider, a Moscow-based news site, has now been confirmed. AP reporter Nataliya Vasilyeva went to Mishkin’s home town and discovered it was...
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Washington Post’s Greg Miller Says a ‘Deeply Troubled’ CIA Is Helping Mueller’s Investigation
In his new book, The Apprentice, Washington Post reporter Greg Miller made news with new details about a pivotal moment in the 2016 presidential when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the CIA’s finding that Russia was seeking to influence the outco In an online interview with readers, Miller revealed more about the how the...
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Intel Wars: The Battlespace Over Syria, as Seen Through Israeli Eyes
A detailed report from Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Amos Harel recreates the incident last month in which Russian anti-aircraft forces shot down one of their own planes, amidst an Israeli attack on Iranian targets in Syria.
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Is Gina Haspel Abetting Trump’s Politics of Misdirection?
Asheley Wood of Just Security suggests she is. Re-read what Haspel said about China in her Louisville speech and then consider the context.