Nikolai Murashov, the deputy director of the FSB’s National Computer Incident Coordination Center (NCCIC), said Tuesday that Moscow was ready to disclose the full correspondence between Russia and the United States on the alleged election interference, but said that it would need Washington’s consent to do so, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday....
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Beth Kimber Becomes First Woman to Run the CIA’s Clandestine Service
This appointment is testament to the enduring influence of John Brennan at today’s CIA. To the distress of some traditional officers, Brennan insisted on diversity as a fundamental institutional value for an intelligence agency. The appointment of Gina Haspel and now Beth Kimber are part of his legacy. The CIA workforce is now nearly 50...
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RIP William Blum: CIA Critic and Independent Journalist
When I first started reporting on the CIA in the 1980s, I learned early on Bill Blum was a good source for stories. He wrote for Covert Action Information Bulletin (later Covert Action), a notorious publication in Reagan’s Washington. The CAIB that had the feel of samizdat, the underground publications of dissidents in the Soviet Union....
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The Legacy of Bush’s CIA Pardons
When I first came to Washington in the 1980s, one of the first stories I reported on regularly was the Iran-contra scandal. As vice president, the late George Bush was in the thick of it. In the fall of 1986, while working as an editor at The New Republic magazine, I commissioned a story by...
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Flynn Cooperation Memo Hints at Trump’s Russia Deal
Thanks to disgraced National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller now has material evidence of a secret deal between President-elect Trump and the Russian government about U.S. sanctions. At least that’s what a seven page memo filed in federal court earlier this week, strongly suggests. Flynn, a former general served as Trump’s national...