The drum roll for Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s final report is finally complete. For a long time, Attorney General Bill Barr has been saying he might not release the whole report to the public. So tthe House of Representatives passed a resolution, by a resounding vote of 420-0, calling for its release. President Trump indicated he...
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Black Budget for Military Intelligence Grows for 5th Straight Year
The Pentagon has requested nearly $23 billion for the Military Intelligence Program in fiscal year 2020. Besides the overall spending figure, the rest of the budget is secret. In general, it will support U.S. military intervention in Africa, Middle East, Latin American, and Asia. A 2016 Congressional Research Service report says the MIP represents “defense intelligence activities...
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Behind Bolsonaro’s Meeting With CIA Director Gina Haspel
Not every head of state who visits Washington gets to meet with the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president of Brazil, did. From a wire report: Bolsonaro also met with CIA director Gina Haspel at the spy agency’s headquarters in Virginia to convey the importance he places on “fighting...
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Withdrawal Symptoms: Is the U.S. Leaving Syria or Not?
President Trump’s decision to leave Syria prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis and a continuing rear-guard bureaucratic action to limit or reverse the president’s decision. First, there was the report that 400 troops would stay. Then there was the report that the U.S. would stay in the eastern Syria border town of El-Tanf...
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Russian Hacker Indicted by Mueller Denies All in Curious BBC Interview
Sergey Polozov, a 31-year-old Web designer, is one of 13 Russians indicted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller in Feb. 2018, for fraudulent activities related to U.S. accounts. In a new interview with BBC Russia, Polozov dismissed the charges, saying his work for the Internet Research Association “was never in English and never had any apparent...