In Consortium News,John Kiriakou, former CIA officer turned whistleblower, warns of a Senate bill that he says “gives Trump carte blanche for war.” He’s talking about Senate Resolution 59, introduced by Senators Bob Corker (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA). The measure is intended to “provide an updated, transparent, and...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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What was in John Brennan’s emails?
In 2015, WikiLeaks published a tranche of emails hacked from the account of future CIA Director John Brennan. Among the documents was “The Conundrum of Iran,” a draft paper, on U.S. policy toward Iran that Brennan wrote in July 2007, with recommendations for the next president. When Barack Obama was elected, Brennan became national security adviser,...
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How the FSB Recruits Among Putin’s Opposition (Subtlety Is Not Its Strong Suit)
From the Russian news site Meduza: “Natalia Gryaznevich, the press secretary for the opposition movement Open Russia (founded and funded by the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky), says she was recently approached by a recruiter from Russia’s Federal Security Service, otherwise known as the FSB.”
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Responding to Iran’s Success in Syria, Mossad Confirms Role in Syrian Assassination
The New York Times, with the help of Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, reports as fact what I suspected yesterday: Israel’s Mossad was responsible for the assassination of a Syrian rocket scientist. Confirmation came from “a senior official from a Middle Eastern intelligence agency,” which sure sounds like the return address of a Mossad message.
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Powder Keg: What Israeli Intelligence Thinks about South Syria
In March, Lawrence Wilkerson, former deputy to Secretary of State Colin Powell, told me another war was coming in the Middle East. Now a gang of policy wonks at “War on the Rocks” asks “Is Another War Coming?” Hal Brands, a historian in the Kissingerian mode, cites the possibility of a war betwee Israel and Iran in...