Newsweek’s Peter Eisner wrote this account of the 1991 U.S. invasion of Panama after the death of Manuel Noriega last years. It is equally relevant after the passing of the late President Bush. Not only was the justification for the invasion was bogus, Eisner reported, Noriega was a long time asset of the CIA. The...
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Feds Target Butina’s GOP Boyfriend as Foreign Agent
Maria Butina is the accused Russian agent who infiltrated American conservative circles to ingratiate Russian president Vladmir Putin with the right-wing in Washington. Now her American boyfriend, Paul Erickson, has been warned he might be charged as a spy too, according to the Daily Beast. “Charging an American under 951 in the context of the...
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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...
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South Korea’s Intelligence Service Has a Different Way of Doing Things
As I follow the Korea denuclearization story in the Korean media, I am finding the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service does something remarkably responsible and sane: they provide elected officials with timely intelligence, in a classified and unclassified setting, on a regular basis. When the New York Times published an overhyped story last month that North...
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Time to Lay to Rest Those JFK Conspiracy Theories About George Bush
As editor of the JFK Facts blog, I often heard the theory that the late President Bush was somehow complicit in JFK’s death. In the comments section of site, it was a hardy perennial. Exactly how Bush was involved was rarely explained. To me it seemed that JFK conspiracy theories about Bush persisted mainly as a way...