President Trump’s decision to give a security clearance to son-in-law Jared Kushner drew objections from the CIA among others. Sen. Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee called it an “abuse of power.” Kushner has reportedly been denied access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), the most secret government information, according to the Washington...
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Bellingcat Confirms Iranian Forces Hacked U.S. Drone
Last week The Deep State reported the claim of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that it had hacked a U.S. drone forcing American forces to destroy it This week Nick Waters of the Bellingcat open-source investigative site says that independently obtained video confirms that Iranian back forces did bring down a U.S. drone in...
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Charles McCarry, prescient spy novelist, dead at 88
Charles McCarry wrote “Tears of Autumn,” one of the best fictional treatments of the assassination of President Kennedy. Coming from a former CIA officer, the depiction of a plot against JFK as revenge for his Vietnam policy had a credibility. Charles McCarry didn’t write many best-sellers, but among aficionados he was regarded as “the dean”...
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House Intelligence Committee Will Call Trump Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify
Weisselberg received renewed congressional attention after disgraced Trump fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday repeatedly mentioned the Trump Org CFO as crucial to various aspects of dubiously legal practices by President Donald Trump, from the Stormy Daniels hush-money payments to potential insurance fraud. Source: House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify
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Eyes in the Sky: A Conference on Aerial Surveillance
The Project on Government Oversight, otherwise known as POGO, is a Washington pubic interest group, on the cutting edge of accountability. POGO is calling attention to the growth of aerial surveillance in America with a conference on March 7. This is not the NSA-CIA version of spying–mass surveillance and espionage–but a more ordinary task carried...