The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Aerospace Division struck back at the United States last week after learning that the U.S. had made concerted efforts to sabotage Iran’s ballistic missile program. Last Friday, the IRGC said it had penetrated US drone command and control networks, releasing footage of a US military aircraft bombing a hacked drone out of...
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National Security Officials Dismiss Trump’s Emergency
Vox Media reported on Monday that a bi-partisan statement was released by “more than 50 former top national security officials” which challenged the evidence Donald Trump has used to justify the declaration of a national emergency along the country’s southern border. The letter calls on Trump to provide that evidence using “his agencies’ own official...
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Getting to Know Elliott Abrams
On the District Sentinel radio show, I talked about my latest Deep State story on Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela and veteran of U.S. regime change operations in Latin America. The best way to understand Abrams and Trump’s policy toward the bitterly divided South American country is to know Abrams’ record in...
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How a High School Class Penetrated the Veil of Secrecy and Forgetting
A group of high school student from Highstown, New Jersey did something fairly amazing this year: They took effective action against government secrecy. They wrote a law, and, in a bitterly divided Congress, they got it passed. And President Trump signed it. The students in Stu Wexler’s American government class, persuaded Congress to preserve and...
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Acid Test for Mueller’s Investigation: Russian Spy or Political Hack?
As the Trump-Russia investigation comes to a close, the primary target of special prosecutor Robert Mueller seems to be Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort and his Russian translator Konstantin Kilimnik. Manafort, says Mueller, is a “hardened criminal.” But what is Kilimnik? The question goes to the heart of Mueller’s investigation. Is Kilimnik and active Russian...