The Washington Examiner is generally pro-Trump in its coverage but this report from White House correspondent Rob Crilly conveys the dismay widely felt in the intelligence service about the president’s recent actions. Kevin Carroll, a former CIA case officer, said, “It’s a very troubled relationship. Trump got it off to a terrible start with comments...
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Israel Accused of Planting Spy Devices Near the White House
The government of Israel, likely that of Saudi Arabia and Russia, hopes President Trump will be re-elected in 2020. But that doesn’t mean they don’t spy on him. From POLITICO The miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as “StingRays,” mimic regular cell towers to fool cell phones into giving them their locations and identity information. Formally...
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US Extracted Top Spy from Russia Amid Concerns about Trump
There have been times when the CIA didn’t trust the president. JFK, Nixon, and Carter for example. But those differences concerned policy, not the keeping of secrets. With Trump, the agency doesn’t trust him to protect the identify of their spies. So they pulled a spy out of Russia, rather than risk his life. The...
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John Delaney, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Candidate
On the Campaign Trail: A self-funding Congressman from Maryland, Delaney is a former businessman whose foreign policy flows from his faith in free-trade economics. Besides immigration, the issues pages of his campaign web site says little on national security or foreign policy questions. [Do you like John Delaney? Tell us why in the comments section....
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Trump Shrugs After Iran Shoots Down a U.S. ‘Spy’ Drone
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a U.S. surveillance drone by a surface to air missile, amid the escalating tensions of the oil tanker crisis in the Gulf of Oman. The Iranians said the drone had entered Iranian airspace while while U.S. Central Command denounced “an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance aircraft...