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The backstory of how this all went down in Warsaw is both hilarious and terrifying, FYI. From what I've heard from a senior Polish military official, the decision to send

So far my favorite example of a bitter internal U.S. intelligence dispute manifesting itself in a very flawed (to say the least) public perception crisis of what was really taking

[Thread] Hillary Clinton suggested in one of the debates that Trump paid no income tax. His muttered reply? “That makes me smart.” It was all out there, in other words,

NEW: Remember when around 400 kilos of virtually uncut cocaine were found at the Russian embassy in Argentina? The official story of how this happened stinks. We obtained ALL the

[Thread.] Few comments about this NBC story, which is yielding the usual feast of reason and flow of the soul on social media.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-commander-intel-still-hasn-t-established-russia-paid-n12400

THREAD. Welp. I think I've found the former beauty queen Trump is rumored to have gotten to know perhaps a little too well in Moscow in 1996.The SSCI leaves several

If I'm reading CIA v. NSA angle on this story right, then the IC dispute isn't whether or not the GRU sent money to the Taliban (they did), it's whether

He was invited to GRU HQ while he was DIA director. He was paid to attend RT’s annual gala, sat next to Putin. He later compared RT to CNN, MSNBC.

Worth reading the full extract of James Clapper's newly release House testimony. Here are the relevant bits, with my comments to follow: Continued from above: So Clapper's statement tracks with

I think Bruno has captured it well. Re-read The Economist interview carefully...https://twitter.com/macaesbruno/status/1194498419764711425 Macron emphasizes the “rise of radical political Islam” as “undoubtedly the foremost enemy of European humanist

So the Pentagon came up with an ingenious solution. Appeal to the commander-in-chief in his own terms, make this about America cashing in on its multi-billion dollar investment to destroy

OK, I know US policy in Syria seems a Riddle of the Sphinx type of deal, but it isn’t really, even if your only guide is splotchy reporting. So in