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Heavy Smoke from SF Russian Consulate Chimney as Moscow Fears Search by US

By Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL ) | - - WASHINGTON -- Russia's Foreign Ministry said that U.S. law enforcement officials intend to search its San Francisco consulate and some diplomatic residences,…

Intel Community: ‘How can we work for a President who Undermines our work?’

By Mattathias Schwartz, special to ProPublica | - - Last week, Dan Coats, the former senator from Indiana and current head of the U.S. intelligence community, was interviewed by NBC's Lester Holt…

Want Iranian Democracy? We had one & CIA overthrew it

By Joseph McQuade | (The Conversation) | - - The US and Iran have a complicated relationship. At the moment, it is tense, divisive and delicate. Just over 60 years ago, things…

How our Intel Agencies Screwed us by Letting Sessions, Trumpies get away with Russia Scheme

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller at WaPo report from a US intelligence source that former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei…

WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of ‘CIA hacking’

David Glance | (The Conversation) | - - WikiLeaks today released what it claims is the largest leak of intelligence documents in history. It contains 8,761 documents from the CIA detailing some…

All the President’s Deniers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - This week, we've seen a parade of Donald J. Trump's far-right cabinet appointees attempting to tone themselves down (with help from pliant GOP…

Top 4 Ways Bush even more Outrageously Dissed the Intelligence Community

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency counter-terrorist center and FBI National Security Branch, has been on CNN maintaining that…

The last Time we had a President who skipped Intel Briefings, we got 9/11

The last Time we had a President bored by Intel Briefings, we got 9/11

By Ronald Stockton | (Informed Comment) | - - Former CIA head and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently said that if President Elect Trump refuses intelligence briefings and something bad happens,…

Those times the US meddled in other People’s Elections

TeleSur | - - U.S. concern over alleged Russian foul play in this year's election is ironic given decades of Washington's deadly foreign intervention. Revelations surfaced on Friday that a leaked document…

The Election that Changed everything and Could be History’s Deal-Breaker

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - For decades, Washington had a habit of using the Central Intelligence Agency to deep-six governments of the people, by the people, and for…

Will Trump Bring in a New Era of Surveillance and Torture?

TeleSur | - - Trump's picks for important security positions look intent on rolling back civil liberties. While there are many questions about what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will change once he…

US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that Trump’s administration will threaten human rights protections,…

CIA Arms For Syria Sold by Jordan Spies on Black Market For Terrorists

Jo Ankier, Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV) | - - "Weapons sent by the CIA to Jordan for Syrian rebels were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms…

Snowden on Torture Report: “When the CIA destroys s.th., it’s never a Mistake”

TeleSur | -- After the CIA inspector general admitted it destroyed a 6,700 page report on torture, the famed whistleblower said the CIA does not destroy by "accident." Edward Snowden commented this…

Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Intro: Rebecca Gordon catches the nightmarish quality of those [Bush] years, now largely buried, in the grim case of a single mistreated human…

Despite Syria Cease Fire, Belligerents Plot military Victory

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Despite the announcement at Munich of a cessation of hostilities in Syria, to be implemented in the next week or so, all the…

The Great War of Our Time: Book Review

Book Review By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - Michael Morell. The Great War of our Time. The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism, from Al Qa’ida to ISIS. New York;…

Still underestimating al-Qaeda & Taliban despite 1500 Military Analysts

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - That figure stunned me. I found it in the 12th paragraph of a front-page New York Times story about “senior commanders” at…

Obama as Grandmaster of Grand Strategy: Containing China

By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President Barack Obama is deploying a subtle geopolitical strategy that, if successful, might give…

The Unbearable Heaviness of the Drone Cowboy

By Pratap Chatterjee | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The myth of the lone drone warrior is now well established and threatens to become as enduring as that of the lone lawman with…