“There exist a considerable number of Americans who just find it inconceivable that the CIA would do the things that it, by its own admission, was specializing in.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/24/a-remarkable-lawyer-and-a-fascinating-case/
“Clapper said without knowing exactly what the FBI’s concerns were at the time, it’s hard to say if Mr. Trump should have been warned about the use of informants.”
“The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge.”
“The CIA operative and FBI informant used to gather information on the 2016 Trump campaign has, for weeks, been falsely depicted as a sensitive intelligence asset rather than what he actually is: a long-time CIA operative with extensive links to the Bush family who was responsible for a dirty and likely illegal spying operation in the 1980 presidential election.”
“The CIA had granted Provisional Security Approval to Bohning on Aug. 21, 1967, and Covert Security Approval on Nov. 14 of the same year. Bohning was given the cryptonym AMCARBON-3.”
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/article210234214.html
“Belief in the Pax Americana persists, along with an appetite for armed intervention. So too does a studied indifference to costs and consequences.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washingtons-pax-americana-cartel/
“Torture was illegal in 1946. It was illegal in 1968. And it was illegal in 2002, no matter what Bush Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee said.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-case-against-gina-haspel/
“The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents.”
“A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/07/cbp-alt-uscis-twitter/
“Now as the death toll tragically stands at many tens of thousands, and with a subsequent U.N. report from 2017 documenting in detail ‘the killing and maiming of children’ on a mass scale, Blitzer’s words are even more revealing of the role that CNN and other major American networks play in enabling and excusing U.S. and allied partners’ war crimes abroad.”