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  President Barrack Obama speaks at the dignified transfer ceremony for the U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and security officers Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Sept. 14, 2012. DoD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo (Released) As Bill Barr is walking out the door of the Department of Justice to open presents on Christmas day, Kimberley A. Strassel of the Wall Street Journal tells us that he is an honest and upstand...

Bill Barr still covers for the CIA By December 22, 2020 As Bill Barr is walking out the door of the Department of Justice to open presents on Christmas day, Kimberley A. Strassel of the Wall Street Journal tells us that he is an honest and upstanding Attorney General who believes there was no CIA role in the effort to bring down President Trump. Barr, a former CIA analyst, had come to the conclusion that he didn’t “see any sign of improper CIA activity” and that “The CIA stayed in its lane...

Spiegel have produced an explosive investigative report on the elaborate FSB efforts to poison Alexei Navalny with a Novichok nerve agent. Navalny survived and has resumed his role as an active player, amplifying the identities of the team that allegedly worked to kill him and laying responsibility for the operation at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s feet—all while promising to return to Russia. All of this raises the question: Why does the Kremlin regard Navalny as so large a threat, ...

Announcing a new film festival dedicated to SECRETS as a genre News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NYCs number one rated museum and experience SPYSCAPE announces its new film and TV festival SPYFLIX. The festival will showcase new voices and stories focused on the oldest storytelling device of all: secrets. The festival is now accepting submissions through February 28th, 2021 and will kick off screenings starting April 18th, 2021. Cou...

That effort was exposed and could have used those insights to adapt or amplify its propaganda, promoting the baseless claim that ukraine rather than russia hacked the democratic national committee in the 2016 u.s. election. in fact, one former official told the paper that russia likely knows more about trumps conversations with giuliani than impeachment investigators do. quote, congress and investigators have call records that suggest certain things but have no means whatsoever of getting the ac...

The rules that they have to follow to keep their security clearances. the fact that they would get fired if they did any of this kind of activity. think about the people who had to review these security clearances for mr. kushner. for them to deny a clearance to him, the presidents son-in-law, think of how they had to make that decision. they had to be pretty sure of themselves to deny a clearance for someone that high in the white house, that close to the president. they had to be pretty confid...

Cancelled their meeting that was after russias attack on ukrainian vessels but when the two leaders did end up speaking at the summit, white house officials characterized it this way. as is typical at multilateral events, president trump and the first lady had a number of informal conversations with world leaders at the dinner last night, including president putin. from new reporting, we now know that was a lie. "the accounts of people familiar with the conversation said it appeared longer and m...

Sometimes it takes drafting statements to put them out. not a profile in congress. >> 300 characters on twitter. >> up to 280. >> god help us. >> we may still see some push back, but we know the truth here. it happens very rarely. did it happen a year ago in charlottesville? yes, from some. did it happen in helsinki? yes, from some. many other occasions, norm defying, democracy challenging moments from this president, we havent heard anything from republicans because they are still in awe of thi...

At risk right now, but what i worry about the most is its already difficult, nicolle, in the intelligence community to get people to raise their hand, who are talented and want to be leaders and want to move up. its all stress for little return. and i can tell you now the stress point has gotten so strong that i worry that talented people are simply going to say, im not going. im not going to washington. leave me alone and thats going to hurt us. >> frank figliuzzi and john sipher, thank you so ...

Deal, and in the comedy central, the only jokes off limits were about his money. >> we know he doesnt have a billion dollars, but he wont let anybody say that or insinuate thats the case. we know he cares. >> john sipher, theory number three, less legally suspicious, an explanation for trumps approach to russia that maybe he just really likes putin. >> i respect putin. hes a strong leader, i can tell you that. >> i would say because putin is a nicer person than i am. >> putin is a killer. >> a l...