House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were dealt their latest blow this week when the CIA informed them that an allegation they pushed was false, the latest example of House Republicans citing questionable information to make a serious claim. Without the evidence or the votes to impeach the president, at this … Read more
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The CIA allegedly launched a secret operation to troll Chinese officials and turn public opinion against them through leaked intelligence and negative news on social media. Reuters reports the operation began in 2019 and was also aimed at causing paranoia within Xi Jinping’s government. CIA agents reportedly made fake social media accounts to spread rumors, … Read more
“Did you learn things in CIA training about withstanding interrogation that are going to make it harder for me to interview you?” I asked Joe Weisberg, creator of the TV espionage drama The Americans and onetime CIA agent. He looked momentarily startled, as though he’d expected this to be easier. Good, I had him where … Read more
Add to your saved storiesSave A few days after leaving Cuba in 1964 with her entire life packed in 21 suitcases, Juanita Castro stood before television news cameras in Mexico City. She looked nervous. She was about to condemn her older brother Fidel as a tyrant. “Cuba is an immense prison surrounded by water,” she … Read more
The Washington Post Exclusive October 23, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin attends a funeral on Aug. 23, 2022, in Moscow for his daughter Daria Dugina, who was killed in a car explosion. (Evgenii Bugubaev/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — The cluttered car carrying a … Read more
Senior United States intelligence officers met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties teams to subject issues about home surveillance operations which have drawn intense scrutiny this summer time amongst an unlikely coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers within the US Congress. The closed-door session, convened on the Liberty Crossing Intelligence Campus—a … Read more
Paula Wagner: I simply bear in mind standing there and being terrified [laughs] and understanding that this needed to be manually executed. It had a ballet-like precision, and the whole lot about it — the timing of it, the timing of the visible, the timing of him dropping — all of that needed to be … Read more
“Ohana means household, and household means nobody will get left behind.” Disney’s Lilo & Stich so eloquently taught the world this reality in 2002, however regardless of their definitive assertion, the main sisters, Nani (Tia Carrere) and Lilo (Daveigh Chase), do not reside in an undivided nuclear household. Actually, two necessary members have seemingly already … Read more