I thought I was the only one bothered by the fact that the CIA has a Twitter account, which effectively serves as a domestic propaganda channel, and that the agency plans to add an Instagram account soon. I have company: Edward Snowden. In a podcast with the tech site Motherboard, the NSA whisteblower explained why...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Google Joins Trump Campaign Against the Iranian Press
Google seems to be aligning itself with the Trump administration in its efforts to isolate and demonize Iran. The search giant is removing Iranian state media from YouTube Iran’s Press TV reports. On Thursday, Google removed 39 YouTube channels linked to the Iranian state broadcaster [Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting or IRIB]. Google terminated those...
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Under Mueller’s Questioning, Trump’s ‘Great Memory’ Failed 30 Times
The president’s self-proclaimed “great memory” failed him when he responded in writing to questions from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller in November 2018. A month later, Mueller told Trump’s lawyers about “the insufficiency of those responses. ….We noted, among other things, that the President stated on more than 30 occasions that he “does not ‘ recall’...
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Giuliani: ‘Nothing Wrong’ With Taking Information from Russians
The president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, articulated the permissive rules that the Trump White House wants applied to itself and to no one else. “There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He was referring to a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting involving Mr. Trump’s son Donald Jr.,...
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Mueller Redacted: GRU Used Wikileaks But Did Not Conspire With Trump
While Russian military intelligence operatives hacked the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton, they used the radical transparency organization Wikileaks to disseminate the stolen material, according to the report of special prosecutor Robert Mueller partially released Thursday. President Trump’s campaign actively pursued the stolen material and communicated with Wikileaks about how it could be deployed against...