The New York Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.
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Russia working to damage Joe Biden’s White House bid, U.S. intelligence agencies say
“The disclosure is the most detailed yet from U.S. intelligence agencies about foreign efforts to interfere in the 2020 election between presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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John Bolton leaves the Trump regime
Another rat flees the sinking ship.
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Trump smashed months of FBI work to thwart election interference
Via Politico: “Trump’s willingness to accept foreign assistance has essentially invited overseas spies to meddle with 2020 presidential campaigns, undoing months of work, said law enforcement veterans.”
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Donald Trump told visiting Russians that firing ‘nut job’ Comey eased pressure from investigation
Donald Trump told visiting Russians that firing ‘nut job’ Comey eased pressure from investigation (The New York Times).
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Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
An exclusive from The Washington Post: “The president’s disclosures to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in their Oval Office meeting last week jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State — an information-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, current and former U.S. officials said. “
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Comey: We’re investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s
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U.S. airstrike kills more than 150 at Somalia terrorist camp, military says
The Republican presidential candidates probably won’t talk about it or give Barack Obama credit for it, but a U.S. airstrike has just resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred terrorists at a camp in lawless Somalia, the Pentagon says.
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In most heretical Republican “debate” yet, Trump goes after George W. Bush… again and again
Not only did he call the Iraq war a failure, but when Jeb Bush insisted his brother kept the country safe, Trump pointed out that
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Senate probing whether Ted Cruz leaked classified surveillance data during debate
North Carolina Republican and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr says he is looking into the possibility that Ted Cruz may have inappropriately released classified mass surveillance information during last night’s Republican presidential debate spectacle.
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Republicans land no clear punches while sparring with Clinton over Benghazi
The questions are increasingly badgering, I would even say increasingly vicious… It seems to me that really, the majority simply wish to wear you down.
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Ousted Benghazi committee staffer: Republicans pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary Clinton
Ousted Benghazi committee staffer: Republicans pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary ClintonAn intelligence officer formerly employed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, who describes himself
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Questioned on Iraq invasion, Jeb Bush blunders
Republicans want to distance themselves from [Iraq] without divorcing themselves from it… This was a Republican president, and it never serves the party well to
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Valerie Plame Wilson eviscerates Judy Miller for “pathetic, self-serving” op-ed
Dear Judy, No one is crediting you with starting the Iraq war. We know you were not actually on the team that took us into
LaunchStop treating war-crazy buffoons as experts! They got it wrong, remember?
The disaster they helped create is so urgent, they claim, that we can’t waste time arguing about why the disaster exists in the first place.
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Neoconservatives who were in charge of setting and selling national policy during the Bush years have been coming out of the woodwork this week to
LaunchAviation security analyst: Get rid of the on/off switch for aircraft transponders
In the movies, radar screens show incredible detail about everything. In real life, radar is easily confused, doesn’t see small planes, and may have trouble
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