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Syrian Media Blames Israel’s Mossad for Assassination of Chemical Weapons Chief

In his recent book “Rise and Kill First,” journalist Ronen Bergman lays bare one of the distinctions of Israeli’s intelligence: a program of targetted assassination that has no rival. While the Russian FSB has record of using poison and the American CIA uses drones neither is as prolific in killings its perceived foes as Israel’s...

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Anatomy of a War Crime Averted

From a top secret Pentagon report seen by The Intercept: “a minute-by-minute account of a single airstrike [that] provides a small yet detailed window into the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen.”

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Former CIA Officer Makes the Case for Stripping Former Officials of their Security Clearances 

In Consortium News, John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who went to jail for telling a reporter about the agency’s torture program, argues that security  clearances for retired official has “abuse written all over it.” I think Trump is using the clearance issue as a means to get control the intelligence community,  but Kiriakou’s questions are...

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Trump’s ‘Deep State’ rhetoric debunked by Tim Wiener

Tim Wiener, formerly of the New York Times, is one of the country’s leading intelligence writers. His histories of the CIA (Legacy of Ashes) and the FBI (Enemies) are brisk best-sellers that render harsh judgement on these agencies. (He is too harsh according to the CIA.) In a long review essay for the New York...