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About Time: Spy Museum to Overhaul Its Controversial Torture Exhibit

I wrote about the undercover mission of the International Spy Museum in Washington last year, especially its not-so-subtle message that torture was a policy option, not a war crime. Now the Spy Museum is recalibrating the exhibit to get on the right side of the law. From Buzzfeed News The new exhibit will focus more...

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John R. Bolton

Bolton Pushed Soleimani’s Assassination Last June

National Security adviser John Bolton pushed for the assassination of Iranian Gen Qassem Soleimani last summer, according to U.S. officials cited by NBC News.  In a break with past U.S. policy, Bolton recommend killing the Iranian general whose battlefield successes had disturbed U.S. policymakers worried about growing Iranian influence in the region.  After Iran shot...

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Michael Horowitz

After a Harsh IG Report, FISA Reform Is on the Agenda

One the revelations of the report of Michael Horowitz, inspector general of the Justice Department, was the abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) The act was passed by Congress in 1978, after revelations that CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton had presided over two massive program of spying on Americans. FISA requires the FBI...