Imagine the indictment of a former national security official in the Obama administration for violation of the Espionage Act. Imagine James Clapper or Sally Yates facing the same charges as Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning. That dream of right-wing media (and some left-wing critics) came one step closer to reality Sunday, when President Trump announced...
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State Department Cuts Off Funding for Trolls of Critics of Trump’s Iran Policy
Jason Rezaian of the Washington Post, imprisoned for 544 days by the Iranian government on dubious charges of spying, was surprised to find himself the target of another government spewing unfounded allegations: the U.S. government. In today’s Post he writes I never imagined the U.S. State Department would be funding my attackers. The Guardian has the...
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Washington Post’s Remarkable Story on the Kennedy and King Assassination Letter
One national security veteran told me it is the most remarkable story he has seen in the mainstream media in the past 50 years. It appeared in The Washington Post online edition on Friday, headlined Kennedy, King, Malcolm X relatives and scholars seek new assassination probes. Written by Tom Jackman, the story reported on the open letter...
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What Did Jared Know?
The Khashoggi affair has rattled the Washington-Riyadh-Tel Aviv axis and swept the story of the two Russian GRU agents accused of poisoning a Putin critic off the home pages of the planet. The global news cycle, while capacious can only handle one story about a pro-Trump autocrat seeking to assassinate a critic in a foreign...
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Washington Post’s Greg Miller Says a ‘Deeply Troubled’ CIA Is Helping Mueller’s Investigation
In his new book, The Apprentice, Washington Post reporter Greg Miller made news with new details about a pivotal moment in the 2016 presidential when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the CIA’s finding that Russia was seeking to influence the outco In an online interview with readers, Miller revealed more about the how the...
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