Vox Media reported on Monday that a bi-partisan statement was released by “more than 50 former top national security officials” which challenged the evidence Donald Trump has used to justify the declaration of a national emergency along the country’s southern border. The letter calls on Trump to provide that evidence using “his agencies’ own official...
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Trump Hotel: Home of Influence Operations
When Global Witness, the anti-corruption advocacy group, projected a series of messages on the facade of Trump Hotel four blocks from the White House on Wednesday, the advocacy group exposed a key element of U.S. foreign policy in the Trump’ presidency: it’s for sale behind closed doors. Is the President’s defense of the Saudi crown...
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Russia’s FSB: We’re Ready to Publish Correspondence With U.S. on Alleged Election Interference.
Nikolai Murashov, the deputy director of the FSB’s National Computer Incident Coordination Center (NCCIC), said Tuesday that Moscow was ready to disclose the full correspondence between Russia and the United States on the alleged election interference, but said that it would need Washington’s consent to do so, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday....
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Trump Ramped Up Drone Strikes in America’s Shadow Wars
From the Daily Beast: In 2009 and 2010, Obama launched 186 drone strikes on Yemen, Somalia, and especially Pakistan. Donald Trump’s drone strikes during his own first two years on the three pivotal undeclared battlefields, however, eclipse Obama’s—but without a corresponding reputation for robot-delivered bloodshed, or even anyone taking much notice. In 2017 and 2018...