The American people still don’t know some of the most significant details of Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election. Four years after the fact, the story is still redacted. The Washington Examiner extracted that revelation from the latest Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian intervention in U.S. elections. “The administration was not fully engaged until...
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Haspel and Brennan Disagree on Assassinating Soleimani
Two CIA directors have two very different views about the legality of the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last month. In a detailed look at how U.S. policymakers have handled the question of assassinating enemies, the The New Yorker reports the views of current CIA director Gina Haspel. Intelligence officials told Trump that...
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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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Impeachment Frenzy Sets Trump Against the CIA
The long-impending constitutional crisis has arrived, courtesy of a CIA whistleblower. If his or her complaint was conceived as a covert political action operation, it could not have been more effective. The nine-page letter did what Robert Mueller’s 448-page opus did not: jump-start the impeachment process. The day after Trump acknowledged he spoke with the...
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Brennan and Clapper Backpedal on Trump Attacks
Robert Mueller’s “no collusion” has confounded his critics among former heads of U.S. intelligence agencies. Former CIA director John Brennan admitted that his attacks on President Trump may have been unfounded. “Well, I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” Brennan said. “I...