In December 2010, real estate mogul Donald Trump said Wikileaks, online publisher of leaked documents, was “disgraceful” and suggested the death penalty might be appropriate for its massive disclosure of U.S. government secrets. In the summer of 2016, when Wikileaks began to release hacked Democratic party emails, candidate Trump said “I love Wikileaks.” On Thursday,...
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Inside the Discord Leak: U.S. Air Force Loves War Gamers Like Teixeira
British Intelligence Privately Says Israel Has Nuclear Weapons But Won’t Admit it Publicly
Mexican President Accuses Pentagon of Spying, Vows to Restrict Military Information
Daniel Ellsberg Week Honors Pentagon Whistleblower
How Twitter Became a Propaganda Tool of U.S. Central Command
Interview With the Father of a Palestinian Fighter Assassinated by Israeli Special Forces
Chinese Police Station in New York Is Part of a Vast Influence Operation
Catch-22 at Guantanamo, or How Due Process Got Undone
Wagner Group Leader Calls for End to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’
Once Ridiculed, the ‘October Surprise’ Deal Between Reagan and Iran Is Now Confirmed
Two Senators Allege ‘Secret’ CIA spying on Unwitting Americans
UK Spy Agency Says AI Chatbots Pose a Security Threat
How Aerial Surveillance Has Evolved Over the Past 200 Years
Wagner Mercenary Chief Says He Ran Russian Information War
Iranians Outraged After Shah-Era Secret-Police Official Attends U.S. Rally
Israeli-led Disinformation Team Meddled in Dozens of Elections
Director of National Intelligence Barred From Reporting on Domestic Extremists in U.S. Armed Forces
Iranian Intelligence Official Says China in Line to Buy Tehran’s Drones
Former Mossad Chief Urges Compromise on Judicial Shakeup
Trump Seeks Prosecution of Julian Assange, Pro-Trump Publisher
China & the Uighurs: The Orwellian Future Arrives With Western Help
The appalling story of how China is suppressing the Uighurs (pronounced “We-Gurs”), a non-Chinese ethnic group, is one of the most undercovered stories of the day. I too have neglected this mind-boggling story, an error I plan to correct in the weeks and months ahead with more coverage of the plight of the Uighurs and...
Moon Jae-in Seeks to Forge Peace on the Korean Peninsula
South Korean president Moon Jae-in will visit President Trump in the White House today, the latest step on his long and winding and still unfinished journey toward the goal on which he has bet his presidency: denuclearization and disarmament on the Korean peninsula. As I’ve said before, parochial Americans, obsessed with the North Korean dictator...
Trump Says U.S., China and Russia Spend Too Much on Arms (He’s Right)
When President Trump makes comments that are sensible, even to his critics, social media tends to pay little attention. Commentary that crosses tribal lines does not fuel the engine of binary conflict that drives social media engagement. Trump’s critics don’t want to give him credit and his supporters hate his critics, so they don’t want...
Report: Embassy Attack Ringleader Worked for CIA in Libya
This story comes from Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea’s largest and most conservative news outlets. Adrian Hong Chang, the alleged ringleader of the Feb. 22 attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, has worked with the CIA on multiple occasions, according to Chosun Ilbo. That claim has yet to be confirmed. Hong Chang...