In recent weeks and months residents of Washington DC have noticed a definite increase in helicopter traffic overhead. We’re used to the ambulance helicopters going to Washington Hospital Center, and police helicopters covering, big events on the Mall, and the occasional police chase, and so on. But something more has been going on recently. Now...
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He Wasn’t Seeking to Kill a Mob Boss. He Was Fighting the ‘Deep State’ for Trump
A mentally ill man killed a Mafia boss, apparently in service of President Trump’s crusade against “the deep state.” Mr. Comello had become convinced that Mr. Cali was part of the so-called deep state, a cabal of criminals that conspiracy theorists claim controls the United States government. Mr. Comello also believed he was a chosen...
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Shades of Shadow Brokers: Hackers Publish Files of Russian Intelligence Contractor
In April 2017, an anonymous group of hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers published a collection of cyberwar weapons created by the National Security Agency. Now a group of Russian hackers has published a set of tools commissioned by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), according to the BBC. (The FSB is Russia’s equivalent of the FBI.)...
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As CIA Steps Up Operations, Iran Again Claims to Have Arrested 17 U.S. Spies
The intelligence agencies of Iran and the United States are at war, even if the two countries are not. As the Trump administration applies “maximum pressure” to Iran, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) responds with a claim that it has arrested 17 CIA spies in the country. At a news conference in Tehran,...
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Beyond Trump: Soros and Koch to Fund a New ‘Anti-War’ Think Tank
From The Independent and the Boston Globe comes news of a development that is less surprising than it might seem. Two billionaires on opposite ends of the political spectrum, left-wing financier George Soros and right-wing industrialist Charles Koch, are to finance a new think tank which its co-founders say will challenge America’s military-industrial complex by promoting an...