In Consortium News, Max Blumenthal illuminates one aspect of the Hunter Biden story that other news outlets are ignoring. Burisma, the Ukraine gas company that employed the son of Joe Biden, the American vice president, also doles out money to other Washington power players in order to buy influence in Washington. So, while cable news...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Lament of a CIA Whistleblower
Background to the story of the CIA whistleblower who jump-started the impeachment of President Trump. Patrick Eddington, a former CIA imagery analyst turned Cato Institute pundit, writes about the ill-named Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act. He says it actually harms people inside the CIA and other intelligence agencies who want to expose, waste fraud, or...
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Russian Journalists Threatened After Reporting on Prigozhin
From our friends at Meduza: Journalists from the investigative website Proekt say they began receiving threats after they started looking into the operations of Russian mercenaries and political strategists in Africa and the Middle East. Proekt says it has reason to believe the combatants and consultants in question may be working for Evgeny Prigozhin, the...
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Yossi Cohen, Mossad Chief, Is Touted as Netanyahu’s Successor
The chiefs of Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, have long been public figures in Israel. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo made headlines by saying Israel’s security would be enhanced by some kind of deal. When the Obama and administration...
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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...