In MuckRock, the innovative FOIA factory that generates investigative journalism, Chelsea Dickens illustrates a key fact about immigration to the United States in 2019: Covert and overt action in the ‘80s contributed to the “regional instability” still felt today Source: CIA archives show ties between the Honduran Border Caravan and the Reagan Administration • MuckRock
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RT Video Shows Russian Fighter Jet Intercepting U.S. Spy Plane Over Baltic Sea
The Russian pilots closed in on the target, while maintaining a safe distance, and identified it as US Air Force reconnaissance plane, P-8A Poseidon. The American aircraft subsequently pulled away, while the Russian jet safely returned to base. Source: Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepts US spy plane over Baltic Sea – Moscow (VIDEO) — RT...
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‘Potentially Dangerous Situation’: Congress Must Revisit National Emergencies Act
The National Emergencies Act is a little- known law that’s been getting a lot of attention. Passed in 1976, the law empowers the president to declare a “National Emergency,” which gives him or her statutory authority to transfer surplus weapons, deploy troops for disaster response, and the like. The law is so often invoked–an average...
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Washington Post’s Remarkable Story on the Kennedy and King Assassination Letter
One national security veteran told me it is the most remarkable story he has seen in the mainstream media in the past 50 years. It appeared in The Washington Post online edition on Friday, headlined Kennedy, King, Malcolm X relatives and scholars seek new assassination probes. Written by Tom Jackman, the story reported on the open letter...
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MI6 on YouTube: James Bond Need Not Apply
This ad (or advert as they say in the U.K.) attempts to put a human face on British intelligence. It starts ominously, a man of color and threatening music. It trolls the James Bond vision of intelligence work (“It’s not about finding the button on your ejector seat”), in favor of kinder gentler stuff. “It’s...