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Hakan Fidan

After Turkish Spy Chief’s ‘Very Unusual’ Visit, Two Flynn Associates Are Indicted

When Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan visited Washington earlier this month, reportedly to brief Congress on the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he came with another agenda:  pressing the Trump administration to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish national whom Turkey accuses of masterminding an attempted coup in July 2016.  Today, Istanbul got Washington’s answer. The Justice...

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Maria Butina’s Gun Has a Whiff of Smoke

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago–meaning last week–President Trump avowed there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russian state agents.  And one of his most loyal allies on Capitol Hill agreed. Then came Thursday’s plea agreement from Maria Butina, the Russian graduate student who insinuated herself into Republican circles with...

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How the U.S. Justice Department Could Prosecute Khashoggi’s Killers

The evidence against the perpetrators of Jamal Khashoggi’s killers is strong and getting stronger. “If the crown prince went in front of a jury he would be convicted in 30 minutes,” Sen. Bob Corker, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told reporters after hearing CIA director Gina Haspel briefed a group of senators Tuesday...