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President Nixon meets Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House on Oct. 9, 1973. Days before the 1972 election, Kissinger declared that peace was "at hand" in Vietnam. (AP/Harvey George)
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FBI Under Renewed Scrutiny After Pulse Gunman’s Father Revealed as FBI Informant

The revelations about Omar Mateen’s father and his relationship to the FBI have brought the agency under new scrutiny, both for its role in foiling domestic plots it creates and it’s connections to the alleged perpetrators of the worst mass killings in recent years.

Whitney Webb
作者 Whitney Webb

ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- New court filings in the legal case against Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse Nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, have revealed that the gunman’s father was a confidential FBI informant for over a decade, up until the very same month that the deadly shooting took place. The stunning revelation has again placed the role of FBI in

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Intelligence Agency Veterans Urge Trump To Withdraw Haspel Nomination

Two dozen former U.S. intelligence officers urge President Trump to rescind Gina Haspel’s nomination to lead the CIA, citing torture that she oversaw while supervising a black site prison, as well as her role in destroying evidence.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
作者 Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
gina haspel torture

MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Request to Withdraw Nomination of Gina Haspel EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With respect, we veteran intelligence officers from CIA and other agencies urge you to withdraw the nomination of Gina Haspel for CIA director. From what is already known of her

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Greyhound Bus Raids a Stark Reminder That Two-Thirds of Americans Live in a “Constitution-Free Zone”

Recent Greyhound bus raids have revealed an obscure law that gives Border Patrol authority 100 miles inside borders, across the entire perimeter of the country.

Lornet Turnbull
作者 Lornet Turnbull

In Hartford, Vermont, last year, U.S. Border Patrol agents boarded a Greyhound bus as it arrived from Boston, asking passengers about their citizenship and checking the IDs of people of color or those with accents. In January, they stopped a man in Indio, California, as he was boarding a Los Angeles-bound bus. In questioning him about his

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In Wake of ‘Shameful’ Senate Vote, UNICEF Issues New Cholera Warning for Yemen

“Let’s not fool ourselves. Cholera is going to come back,” says UNICEF’s Middle East director

Jessica Corbett
作者 Jessica Corbett
People are treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, May. 15, 2017. While cholera is easily treated, the Saudis’ ongoing blockade has crippled Yemen’s health system, making it unable to respond to the crisis.(AP/Hani Mohammed)

After a "shameful and unacceptable" vote by the U.S. Senate last week to kill a bill that would have halted the nation's military support for a Saudi-led war in Yemen, the U.N. agency for children is warning about the likelihood of another deadly cholera outbreak. "Let's not fool ourselves. Cholera is going to come back," Geert Cappelaere,

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Videos Raise Doubts Over Saudi Arabia’s Houthi Missile Claims

Online videos are raising new questions about Saudi Arabia’s claims that it has intercepted nearly every ballistic missile launched by Yemen with its Patriot missile systems.

Jon Gambrell
作者 Jon Gambrell
patriot missiles

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As with nearly every ballistic missile launched by Yemen's rebels targeting Saudi Arabia, the kingdom overnight said it intercepted all seven fired — but online videos raise new questions about those claims. One video appears to show a Patriot missile launch on Sunday night go rapidly wrong, with the missile

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Turkey Announces Military Incursion into Iraq, Threatens US Over Manbij

Turkey announced the beginning of military operations in Iraq’s Sinjar province a week after the country and its Syrian FSA allies captured Afrin from Kurdish fighters.

ZeroHedge.com
作者 ZeroHedge.com
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the members of his ruling party in Trabzon, Turkey, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Erdogan has announced the country is conducting operations in northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels it deems "terrorists." Erdogan on Sunday said "operations" have begun in Sinjar to clear the mountainous area of Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, fighters. An image showing him with his parents Tenzile, left, and Ahmet Erdogan is in the background. (Kayhan Ozer/Pool Photo via AP)

On Sunday President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the beginning of Turkish military operations in Iraq's Sinjar region a week after Turkey and allied Syrian FSA groups captured Afrin from Kurdish fighters. During that prior victory speech immediately on the heels of the Syrian Kurdish retreat from Afrin, Erdogan had promised further "extensions"

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