President Trump didn’t want CIA director Gina Haspel to brief U.S. Senators on the agency’s assessment of the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi. “We were told during this briefing that it was the direction of the White House that she not attend,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters after the briefing. “I cannot recall a briefing...
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Troubled Trump Threatens More FISA Disclosures
Amid damaging revelations from the guilty plea of his former personal lawyer, President Trump responded with a threat to reveal information about the special prosecutor’s investigation. Such bluster is a familiar Trump tactic. The right-wing The Daily Caller picked up on Trump’s intentions a couple of weeks ago. “Declassification, we’re looking at very seriously,” Trump told reporters...
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Slideshow: The Legacy of Mossad’s Targeted Assassinations
The New Arab, an independent London-based news site, has a vivid slideshow illustrated the targeted assassination policy of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. This is not a conspiracy theory but well-documented fact. Research by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli investigative journalist, reveals Israel is estimated to have carried out more than 2,700 assassination operations since the state’s founding in...
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The Guardian’s Assange-Manafort Story: Bombshell or Bust?
The Guardian’s sensational story that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still unconfirmed by other news organizations. It is a tantalizing story but is it true? The fact that other news organizations have not been able to confirm it quickly makes the question more urgent as time passes. If...
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Ecuadoran Intelligence Monitored Manafort’s Meetings with Assange, Says The Guardian.
If true, the UK Guardian’s story about former Trump campaign manager Julian Assange is very damaging to the Wikileaks founder. Wikileaks denies it. The Guardian’s sourcing is vague in places. Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure...