Counterpunch’s Stuart Newman gets it right: Of course, some liberal pundits overplayed the Russophobic side the investigation. But so did the anti-“Russiagate” critics, who took glee in pointing out the lack of connection of each new criminal disclosure to election stealing. It was hard to determine whether they thought Trump was above entering into criminally...
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Grassley Blocks Controversial Counterintelligence Nominee
Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is blocking the nomination of former FBI agent Bill Evanina for the nation’s top counterintelligence position. The back story here is — what else? — the Trump-Russia investigation. Evanina was the government’s most senior counterintelligence official during Russia’s hack and release influence operation aimed at undermining...
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Coats and Haspel: Trump Is ‘Engaged and Knowledgable’
You know those days at the office when you have to coddle your boss’s ego just because you’d like to keep your job? Gina Haspel and Dan Coats had that kind of day. They know the boss is cranky. Last month Trump rubbished Haspel’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee as “lame.” He griped about...
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Trump Can Give Kushner a Security Clearance — And Congress Can Ask Why
President Trump’s decision to give a security clearance to son-in-law Jared Kushner drew objections from the CIA among others. Sen. Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee called it an “abuse of power.” Kushner has reportedly been denied access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), the most secret government information, according to the Washington...
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Democrats Abandon South Korea’s President in Favor of Hawks
As Democrats in Washington reflexively “get tough” on North Korea, they kick away a chance a for peace on the Korean peninsula. Eager to criticize President Trump, they overlook the reality that denuclearization and ending the Korean war are popular ideas in South Korea. As Ploughshares director Joe Cirincione explains, Trump’s diplomacy is is worth...