Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr announced Wednesday that the Justice Department was sending federal agents to more U.S. cities as part of an anti-crime initiative. Yeah sure, that’s the reason. This is all reality TV being produced by the propagandists at Fox News aka Trump TV and the Trump campaign to scare the elderly white … Read more
Last week the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) was still working to secure witness depositions for current and former advisers to Joe Biden as part of an investigation into the former vice president’s son, an escalation of GOP scrutiny of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his family. … Read more
Update to Donald Trump’s ‘GOPstapo’ agents in Portland a preview of things to come? It appears the answer is “yes.” The Washington Post reports Federal officials dismiss Portland leaders’ calls to leave city as clashes with protesters continue: A top Homeland Security official on Sunday said the agency will maintain a heavy presence in Portland … Read more
Douglas London was a senior operations officer in the C.I.A. Clandestine Service for over 34 years, assigned to the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Central Eurasia, several times as a chief of station. In an op-ed at the New York Times he writes, I Was a Counterterrorism Chief. Trump Knew What Russia Was Doing. … Read more
Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers? Ryan Goodman at Just Security blog has an answer. Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban: One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response … Read more