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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The New York Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.
Launch“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.
LaunchAnother rat flees the sinking ship.
LaunchVia 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.”
LaunchDonald Trump told visiting Russians that firing ‘nut job’ Comey eased pressure from investigation (The New York Times).
LaunchAn 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. “
LaunchI 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
LaunchThe 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.
LaunchNot only did he call the Iraq war a failure, but when Jeb Bush insisted his brother kept the country safe, Trump pointed out that
LaunchNorth 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.
LaunchThe questions are increasingly badgering, I would even say increasingly vicious… It seems to me that really, the majority simply wish to wear you down.
LaunchOusted Benghazi committee staffer: Republicans pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary ClintonAn intelligence officer formerly employed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, who describes himself
LaunchRepublicans want to distance themselves from [Iraq] without divorcing themselves from it… This was a Republican president, and it never serves the party well to
LaunchDear Judy, No one is crediting you with starting the Iraq war. We know you were not actually on the team that took us into
LaunchThe 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.
LaunchNeoconservatives who were in charge of setting and selling national policy during the Bush years have been coming out of the woodwork this week to
LaunchIn 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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