CIA director Gina Haspel now occupies the warmest chairs in Washington. With President Trump’s statement Tuesday that “we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi,” the agency’s findings in the case of murdered Saudi journalist have been trashed. Congress wants to hear from Haspel, finding her more a credible source...
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Haspel and Bolton Diverged Over Khashoggi Evidence
President Trump is trying save the U.S.-Saudi alliance (and his administration’s campaign against Iran) from the notoriety of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Who’s he going to listen to? Washington Post reports CIA director Gina Haspel has told Trump U.S. intelligence has concluded MbS ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Bolton told Trump the...
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Tale of the Khashoggi Tape
Our ongoing reality show about Jamal Khashoggi might called, Law & Order: Special Assassination Unit. In this daily drama, law enforcement officials investigate a tough to crack case of extra-judicial political homicide In the current episode we are watching as the cops gather at the crime scene, and ask, Where is the evidence? Meanwhile, on the...
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Boom Times for Special Ops
The American middle-class may be strapped but the secret sectors of the U.S. government are flush. U.S. military intelligence spending increased 18 percent in the past two years, continuing a trend that began late in the Obama administration. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) dropped the numbers yesterday, and they show secret government...
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CIA Chief Heard Recording of Khashoggi Killing
Gina Haspel is well-qualified for her intelligence gathering mission to Turkey in the Khashoggi affair. Haspel is known to have served as an intelligence officer in Turkey and one top former CIA official told me she speaks Turkish. So Haspel was able to talk, without interpreters, Hakan Fidan, chief of the Turkish intelligence service, the MIT....