Source: A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out – The New York Times the Portland Bible burnings appear to be one of the first viral Russian disinformation hits of the 2020 presidential campaign. How does Russian disinformation work? The Russian technique is a kind of information laundering,...
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How Sen. Ron Johnson’s Investigation Became an Enabler of Russian Disinformation
The hard-right Attorney General Bill Barr says that the FBI investigation Donald Trump’s entourage in 2016, amounted to “spying.” Left- wing columnist Matt Taibbi, says the Trump-Russia investigation was a “hoax.” But that’s kind of last year’s debate. In the 2020 election cycle it is hard to dispute Ryan Goodman and Asha Rangappa’s piece in...
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When It Comes to Intelligence Briefings, Trump Prefers to Pass
Trump went from a high of 4.1 briefings per week on average in March 2017 to 0.7 per week since July 1, shortly after it became public that he had ignored intelligence reports about Russia offering bounties to the Taliban for each American soldier killed in Afghanistan. Monday’s briefing, in fact, was the first in...
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The U.S. Government Wants Snowden’s Money. He’s Not Cooperating
The U.S. government, lacking the ability to punish NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in court, wants to seize the proceeds from his book. Mr. Snowden refused to produce documents showing how much he was paid, however, resulting in the magistrate judge agreeing to impose sanctions sought by federal prosecutors. “The Court must conclude that because Snowden...
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U.S. Generals and Conservatives Opposed Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
With the approaching 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I reached for my grandfather’s memoirs, For the Record. In August 1945, Felix Morley was the former editor of the Washington Post who had founded a publication called Human Events, a journal of conservative and libertarian thought. He recalled that the end of World...