Proud Dad, (old) Army vet, book writer, Pickleball! ice cream, sushi, sea shells, Ken wrangler. War is everywhere. Don't buy the panic. @klipnewsorg
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Today is my last day at @theintercept and @kenklippenstein is resigning to move to his own newsletter. I'll be editing him there -- you need to subscribe.
Read his resignation letter:
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Before everyone cries this is war, US has carried out 7,000 plus airstrikes in Syria since 2014.
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FBI, Homeland Security, White House advisers foresaw possible riots, looked the other way newsweek.com/fbi-homeland-se…
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#BreakingNews : #FBI had source in #Trump camp, raided when Trump was away. My exclusive @Newsweek
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My Departure Letter from NBC williamaarkin.wordpress.com/…
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Me on Perpetual war and the role the news media plays in not covering and thus perpetuating. democracynow.org/2019/1/9/wi… via @democracynow
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Dozens of articles/blogs now written about my letter williamaarkin.wordpress.com/… and yet hardly one of these "reporters" even bothered to contact me for comment or amplification, writing away as they please, and thus again proving current sickness of "journalism."
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Exclusive @Newsweek today, Trump's 'private stash' of documents, including about Russiagate, was the true target of Mar-a-Lago raid.
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Biden administration continues to pretend that it is against escalation while the U.S. in reality shouldered most of the fight against Iran on Saturday. By @kenklippenstein at @theintercept
U.S. forces — not Israel — shot down most of the drones and missiles Iran launched at them on Saturday 👇
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Exlcusive @Newsweek -- "The largest undercover force the world has ever known ... Some 60,000 people now ... working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction."
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#Ukraine 'air war' -- 20,000 #Russian sorties, 3000 in Ukr airspace, 2275 long-range missiles expended, 630 from #Belarus soil, 110 cruise missiles shot down, less than 40% success rate. Today @Newsweek
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FBI is deploying secret "electronic mitigation" weapons to thwart drones at this year's #SuperBowl. Last year in Miami, they made 56 intercepts, 11 seizures, and two arrests. Four drones were intercepted and two were seized on game day. #drones
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Section 793 of the Espionage Act of 1917: "willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States"
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"If intelligence was merely reporting the obvious we wouldn't need it." Complex dynamic. My story @NBCNightlyNews with @CynthiaMcFadden
Pres.-Elect Trump escalates antagonism of US intel -- but VP-elect Pence explains why. @CynthiaMcFadden reports now on @NBCNightlyNews.
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Pentagon declines comment on NBC story on North Korea | Reuters mobile.reuters.com/article/i…
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Trump calls Abu Dhabi Crown Prince. Asks just where Qatar is. english.alarabiya.net/en/New…
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Yesterday in a Facebook live Q&A, @USNorthernCmd Commander Gen. O'Shaughnessy said that a backup watch element has begun operations at Cheyenne Mountain, the watchstanders saying good bye to their families and buttoning up and going into isolation.
tinyurl.com/sbaxwsh
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In case you got nothing better to do, that is, you’re tweeting, I’ll be on CNN @ReliableSources Sunday 11AM EST discussing my goodbye letter to @NBCNews. Hopefully the discussion will be about big ideas. @brianstelter
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Gazillion💲Air Force F-22 Raptor drops 250-lb Small Diameter Bombs on Taliban opium processing plant in Afghanistan Nov. 19, waste of asset and worthless war against drugs.
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Exclusive: Mar-a-Lago documents dealt with intelligence "sources and methods." Search warrant unlikely to reveal exact nature. @Newsweek
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My story tonight: 3 months work. I think Russians lucked into fantasy outcome. Absence of nuanced understanding of success part of our loss.
Exclusive: US intel officials believe Pres. Putin personally involved in US election disruption - @CynthiaMcFadden snpy.tv/2hGQUtp
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The Pentagon is telling its employees not even to access the leaked Ukraine documents on their home computers.
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My @NBCInvestigates goodbye letter unleashed a tweet storm exemplifying exactly the breathlessness I was diagnosing and find so antithetical to serious journalism and thinking. The impulse is to respond but I’ll resist.
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My guess is Mattis 2020. On Syria and Afghanistan (and North Korea) Trump has the right instincts. And on national security stagnation, both in warfare and in thought. Again, he has no ability to implement or even learn but the enemies of Trump shouldn’t become the war party.
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Even if one hates @realDonaldTrump Mattis’ resignation letter and the tsk tsking of near everyone is bad news for democracy. Mattis shouldn’t have taken the job, was never the savior, and did nothing but continue long standing go nowhere policies.
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Manafort indictment on numerous charges shows corruption but no collusion with Russia on elections. Will media report it as such?
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Thanks to @brianstelter and @alexadobrien for fair treatment and @ggreenwald for doing his thing. And for all you radio types and podcasters who can’t wait to have me on: you can! All in good time. Go read a book.
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White House wants to ban TikTok, White House wants TikTok voters. By @kenklippenstein and @DRBoguslaw in @theintercept
As Biden cheers TikTok ban, the White House is quietly courting TikTok influencers as 2024 election nears, visitor logs reveal:
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Despite Iran's attack US is not postured for war. Subtle point as everyone overreacts. By @DRBoguslaw in @theintercept
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Is Not Going To War With Iran. It's even bringing home its Army Morticians. theintercept.com/2024/04/13/…
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Learned today: DHS Intel, launched in 2022, is a smartphone application that provides real-time access to intelligence for Federal, State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal law enforcement.
Over 50,000 downloads. 4.6 out of 5 rating.
apps.apple.com/us/app/dhs-in…
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NBC News veteran leaves network, says media have become ‘prisoners of Donald Trump’ - AOL Entertainment thewrap.com/nbc-news-veteran…
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Of 1.1 million domestic intelligence threat reports: 2017-2020
Sovereign citizens: 2394
White supremacists: 1984
"Far right": 763
Anti-semitic: 623
Racial motivated violent extremists: 433
Antifa: 392
BLM: 231
Environmentalists: 94
@Newsweek #RoadtoJan6 series
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Putin has run out of options, the Ukraine war is lost and he's facing pressures back home. My latest @Newsweek
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I have spoken to an always reliable government source with direct knowledge about continuity of government who says there is no alert and no procedural change due to @realDonaldTrump COVID, but that they are standing by "on their own" over the weekend to receive immediate orders.
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U.S. has been attacking "Iran-backed" militias and Houthis for weeks and now worries about escalation because of Israel's Syria strike? By @kenklippenstein in @theintercept
🚨Iran has told the White House that if the US defends Israel against its forthcoming retaliation for the Damascus strike, it will consider the US a viable target as well
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Biden administration is for a two-state solution but against Palestine being a full member of the UN -- how it justifies that, by @kenklippenstein and @DRBoguslaw in @theintercept today
🚨 Biden admin is quietly pressuring countries to vote against Palestinian statehood at the UN, according to diplomatic cables leaked to me:
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Wrong on all counts. No strike force, no Chinese mobilization and no nuclear armed North Korea.
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Army special access program (SAP) 'Torr Vigil' spies on foreign born and Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military.
Today in Substack. Read and please subscribe. I'm working to uncover the government's fake secrets.
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World War III is all around us, not coming. From Israel-Iran to Ukraine-Russia to China-Taiwan, the constant conflict is war. It's not something we should be waiting for. By @kenklippenstein and @DRBoguslaw in @theintercept
Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like interc.pt/44bVbJQ by @kenklippenstein, @DRBoguslaw interc.pt/44bVbJQ
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NBC News veteran warns of 'Trump circus' in 2,228-word farewell @CNN cnn.it/2RqV6Pn
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Government failure on January 6th -- the story -- continues to be exposed. From p/m @kenklippenstein
Tony Ornato, a top Secret Service official & fmr Trump appointee sought by Jan. 6 investigators, resigned today—just 2 days before a planned interview with investigators. As a private citizen, investigators will no longer be able to compel his testimony.
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First notice: I’ll be on CNN @ReliableSources Sunday 11AM EST discussing my goodbye letter to @NBCNews. Hopefully the discussion will be about big ideas. @brianstelter
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I love this one especially. Actual 20-something JSOC operator with aging mask to spoof facial recognition and border biometrics, matching fake identity.
Read my signature reduction story. Full of cool spy shit.
The photographs obtained by @warkin are absolutely stunning.
Including, for example, a mold for this aging mask. This is Argo 10.0.
Read the whole thing.
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Former Japanese def minister on war with N Korea: "The final decision-maker is Mr Mattis ... Not the president." amp.smh.com.au/federal-polit…
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Biden thinks non-nuclear threats will stop Putin. His military doesn't.
@Newsweek.
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Lapses.
During a recent interview with @CNN, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle discussed the July 13 security lapses and emphasized our agency's dedication to preventing similar incidents in the future.
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US operation to defend Israel over the past week cost $1 billion. Outrageous or worth it? Nothing's discounted when it comes to the Pentagon.
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"S. Korean presidential candidates oppose preemptive strikes on North" nknews.org/2017/04/s-korean-…
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My latest in @guardian The experts are wrong on North Korea, so focused on their beloved WMD vapors and so blinded by Trump hate, they can't see the actual progress already made. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Just another day in Saudi Arabia's leadership role as Trump's oblivious vanguard. nitter.app/bafana3/status/8723057…
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Thanks to all who have written about my letter to @NBCNews The words resignation, quits, whistle blows, slams, rips, accuses are all your words. I wrote a goodbye letter to my colleagues decrying this very self-generating hyperbole. I declined to renew my contract.
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Months of accurate reporting with @CynthiaMcFadden led us to this story. There is no bird delivering simple leaks @NBCNightlyNews
JUST IN: US intel official: US has identified Russian actors who gave stolen US Democratic material to WikiLeaks - @warkin / @KenDilanianNBC
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Israel (and Iran) can make things worse, but war encompassing 16 countries is already a whole lot of escalation. By @kenklippenstein and @DRBoguslaw in @theintercept
🚨 Israel's war has spread to 16 countries even as the Biden administration insists there's no regional war 👇
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This is Steve Bannon's new assistant. Does he get the brief? If the brief contradicted overwrought presumptions would it matter?
.@SebGorka: "[Judge James Robart] doesn't have the daily presidential intelligence brief. He has no idea what the threats to America are."
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Trump vows to "develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities". They already exist and are already planned. whitehouse.gov/making-our-mi…
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OTD in 9/11 History, 10 October 1990: The era of modern media manipulation begins with the appearance of 15 year-old Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. More at buff.ly/2GNM8rY
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All so happy in Jordan, as the US mil teaches these lovely special forces the skills to conduct their own domestic operations including detaining people.
U.S. Army Soldiers, Jordanian Special Operations Forces, Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service members and Saudi Arabian Special Operation Forces train together during Eager Lion 24 at the King Abdullah II Operations Training Center in Jordan.
#EagerLion24 is a multilateral exercise, with 33 participating nations, hosted by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is considered the capstone event of the broader U.S. military relationship with the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF), which is one of U.S. Central Command's strongest and most reliable partners leading the way for security and stability in the region.
@USEmbassyJordan @USArmy
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Hail Sputnik, newski with no tilt comrades. Lol. NBC Reporter Quits Over Network’s ‘Mechanical’ Support for ‘Perpetual War’: sputniknews.com/society/2019… via @SputnikInt
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A Buffalo PD Officer & NY State Trooper were struck by an SUV last night during protests. The suspects fled but AMO agents—providing air support—never lost track of them. Thanks to @CBPAMO the suspects were apprehended. Our thoughts are with the Officer & Trooper as they recover.
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Putin invaded Ukraine thinking he would quickly win and the West would splinter. Then he micromanaged the war to bring the Russian military to the brink of disaster. A six month review @Newsweek
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Trump administration establishes new secret watchlist that will eventually include tens of thousands of Americans. With @EDCauchi @Newsweek
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US possible pre-emptive strike North Korea nuclear test businessinsider.com/north-ko…
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Foreign connections to protestors? Concocted but the ticket for FBI mischief or worse. @kenklippenstein
The intelligence community is spying on student protesters. The move follows congressional pressure on the FBI to infiltrate protests with informants
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I normally report (and tweet) on war, but #RoeVsWade has got my stomach churning. My two daughters are devastated. Let's hope the young women of America (and their Dads) do something. They can change the country.
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My latest @newsweek The military prepares for "civil disturbance" operations well aware that #coronavirus is different and that they might not be prepared.
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My two-year investigation of "signature reduction" in the American military -- false identities and even fingerprints, techniques to spoof biometrics, close-in listening and tracking, "misattribution" cyber activity ...
Exclusive: Inside the military's secret army, the largest undercover force ever newsweek.com/exclusive-insid…
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Part1 of my interview. Saying Media Is “Trump Circus” That Encourages Perpetual War democracynow.org/2019/1/9/lo… via @democracynow
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FBI data on domestic terrorism. Note "Assessments."
@Newsweek
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FBI targets MAGA but can't quite say so. State of domestic terrorism, and the government's reaction, today @Newsweek
@FBI
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With the surprise visit to China I’d venture to say we now see the full emergence of Beijing as world leader. Of course they have a great interest in no war on the Korean Peninsula. Trump Magoo might just do it, if denuclearization is the actual goal.
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My latest in Newsweek. While the Iran crisis unfolded last year, the United States and its NATO partners held 93 anti-Russian exercises in Europe last year.
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"Air war" in Ukraine -- why is it LESS destructive than we see? My latest in @Newsweek
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Blast from the past. Soviet submarine hideout revealed in pictures | Daily Mail dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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Pentagon's war on climate change. The FY24 budget contains some nuggets.
tinyurl.com/2s4jt3sb
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Arkin urges more scrutiny of 'perpetual war' @CNN cnn.it/2QsWL2c
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The search for the Trump smoking gun will result in failure, empowering the right wing to conclude that the former president was being persecuted.
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Bill's Black Box of Government Secrets: Every American war game from 2022 governmentsecrets.substack.c…
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I'm the author of that @Newsweek piece. Pray tell, how about some details before you rant with secret innuendo.
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Julian Assange's satisfying takedown of the #Snowden industry. newsweek.com/assange-how-gua…
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.@Newsweek has published 20 of the leaked documents. There's actually news in here that hasn't been reported. Read for yourself. newsweek.com/2023/05/05/read…
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75th Ranger Regiment hits the ground in Syria for Raqqa offensive? sofrep.com/76380/75th-ranger…
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Kind of quiet at the @democracynow studio but happy to be with Amy & Juan to practice journalism and my new avocation of commentary.
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Updates to our story about Yemen, including reaction from AQAP with @rwindrem. What was the purpose of the raid? nbcnews.com/news/world/seal-…
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Nine young children killed: The full details of botched US raid in Yemen - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism thebureauinvestigates.com/20…
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Trump admin smart in eschewing redlines but awful in not making clear distinction about what it threatens N. Korea not to do.
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My yelling (nicely) at @ianmastersmedia on @BackgroundBrief today about perpetual war and its power. @NBCNews soundcloud.com/user-83044263…
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Chinese Spy Balloon
"Here are the memes. I found them edifying and hilarious and enervating at the same time. The American people get it. They know its all a joke."
Today on Substack.
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My story with @CynthiaMcFadden tonight on The Trumps $7 million Thanksgiving. That's the taxpayer bill.
For the Secret Service, a big challenge to protect Pres.-elect Trump and his big family. @CynthiaMcFadden reports now on @NBCNightlyNews.
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Scarlet Dragon
Silent Quest
Silver Falcon
Steadfast Cobalt
Vital Archer
U.S. war games in 2023, more than 110, by month!
Subscribe to my Substack newsletter for revelations about current goings on, from the government's many quivers.
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Perhaps the #UAE is so poorly covered and investigated because so many in Washington (including the news media) are bought off as influence agents on their behalf.
Human Rights Watch: "Most people believe that the UAE is this liberal oasis in the Middle East, but it's arguably one of the most totalitarian" states in the Persian Gulf.
nbcnews.com/news/mideast/jai… via @nbcnews
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Learned today: Expanded U.S. government #watchlist now in full operation expanding beyond terrorists and known criminals, including vague "national security" threats (and associates) - domestic "terrorists" and threats. Post #January6th change. @FBI. Thread
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My take on the CIA in the Ukraine war - it's not Hollywood or what you think, but it is what you intuit.
"There is a clandestine war, with clandestine rules, underlying all of what is going on in Ukraine ..."
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Texas sees first known attempt of Russian meddling in 2018 US elections: NBC Report washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
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Law Enforcement, Military, and Security Advisors Urge Homeland Security to Shift Away from Private Prisons aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/s…
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