After last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Anita Dunn, senior adviser to the Biden campaign, spun reporters on the Vice President’s performance. Last years, Dunn, who served as communications director in Barack Obama’s White House, did similar duty for NSO, the spyware firm founded by former Israeli intelligence officers. NSO created the infamous Pegasus intrusion tool,...
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Schiff Says NSA and CIA Withhold Documents Relevant to Impeachment
One open secret of the National Security Agency is its ability to intercept the communications of foreign leaders. That ability, it is safe to say, include Ukraine president Voldymor Zelensky, the target of President Trump’s pressure campaign to extract a public statement about rival Joe Biden. How that Trump has been impeached and faces trial...
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Top Candidates for National Security Employees: Sanders and Buttigieg
This surprising finding comes from Foreign Policy’s C.K. Hickey. Foreign Policy examined how much money was donated to campaign committees from employees of the State Department, the military, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Justice Department, drawing on data from the Center for Responsive Politics. When combining contribution amounts together, Sanders is the biggest...
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The Trump Crack-Up: Federal Agencies Mobilize Against White House
As Congress embarks on impeachment proceedings, the leadership of federal agencies in Washington are growing increasingly outspoken. Without mentioning the president, they are warning that President Trump’s actions as a threat to democratic government. The American government is fracturing. Call it the Trump crack-up. A new inter-agency agency report illuminates the fissures between president and...
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Firm Hired by Ukraine’s Burisma Tried to Use Hunter Biden as Leverage
Joe Biden’s vulnerability to President Trump’s attacks on his son’s business dealings in Ukraine are illustrated by this Wall Street Journal report. There’s still a lot we don’t know about Biden’s sinecure with the Burisama, an energy company assembled by a corrupt oligarch. The documents—email exchanges between State Department staff members made public this week—show...