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Notes of Lysol, flop sweat, and bitter tears.

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MAGAdeath

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Name this band.

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I cannot emphasize enough that this is a lie first promulgated by the KGB in 1967, and that RFK Jr is acting as a useful idiot for the Kremlin.

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The Soviet Union vanished five years before the rise of the Taliban.

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Trump: "I'll say this for the Taliban: they're great fighters. You know that, obviously they're great fighters. All you have to do is ask the Soviet Union."

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Putin's political warfare has captured senior Republicans -- Senators Grassley and Johnson, Speaker of the House Johnson, Oversight Chair Comer -- and FOX amplifies their lies. This is a national security emergency, politics aside.

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The GOP's star witness -- and the source for hundreds of FOX stories about the "Biden crime family" -- was an agent of Russian intelligence. Are we shocked? The Republican leadership serves as Putin's useful idiots.

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I've been talking to former CIA directors and station chiefs a lot these days. I wasn't exactly on their Xmas card lists in the past. Any everyone of them has made a point of saying: We're all in the same boat now. Spies, journos, historians, military officers....all allies.

Garrett M. Graff

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Seeing in print in the @WSJ this list of Republican national security officials endorsing Biden is really something. This is basically every GOP luminary of the last 30 years, saying “enough” to Trump. Stunning, really.

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Better to cut out the middlemen and get the disinformation straight from the Russians.

Aaron Rupar

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Here's Lindsey Graham telling CBS that Attorney General Barr has "created a process" where Rudy Giuliani can feed Biden dirt from Ukrainian sources directly to the DOJ, and the DOJ will then check it out

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This is a function of Trump ordering the classification of vital public information as well as a dereliction of duty by Burr. We are on the brink of becoming a failing democracy.

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The GOP's star witness -- and the source for hundreds of FOX stories about the "Biden crime family" -- was an agent of Russian intelligence. Are we shocked? The Republican leadership serves as Putin's useful idiots.

Alan Feuer

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Prosecutors seek to detain Smirnov saying: The "misinformation he is spreading is not confined to 2020. He is actively peddling new lies that could impact US elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November."

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If Trump wins in November, he will be the President of White America.

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New @QuinnipiacPoll Biden: 52% (+10) Trump: 42% Among men Biden: 48% (+1) Trump: 47% Among women Biden: 56% (+17) Trump: 39% Among whites Trump: 50% (+4) Biden: 46% Among Blacks Biden: 83% (+72) Trump: 11% Among Latinos Biden: 56% (+20) Trump: 36%

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@jgeltzer Conora-federalism is a subset of clusterfuck, defined as a disastrously mishandled situation commanded by fools.

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@williamadler78 MAGAdeath

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Fox wrote a falsified memoir about her largely imaginary exploits in the CIA. At least seven former officers I know say she's a fraud. Now she's running RFK Jr.'s wingnut campaign. (Though not for long, once the word gets out.) Such is the parlous state of American democracy.

SpyTalk: Intelligence for Thinking People

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Spurious Spy Now Runs RFK, Jr. Campaign: Amaryllis Fox left the CIA and married the boss’s @seth_hettena for SpyTalk.

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"There are good books and bad books. Then there are books so bad that they should be tried, convicted and sentenced to life without parole in literary prison, never again to see the light of day. Gentle reader, this is such a book."

Review | Matthew Whitaker’s fawning defense of President Trump

The former acting attorney general also offers a baseless diatribe against the “deep state.”

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David Ignatius, not given to uninformed speculation, writes that Trump might make Kash Patel FBI director and Ezra Cohen-Watnick the NSA chief to disrupt the transition. That is...alarming. Don't know those two? Read what I wrote about them:

Perspective | Trump just installed his own deep state at the Pentagon. What is it up to?

Conspiracy theorists are in a position to root out documents the president thinks will prove his version of the “Russia hoax.”

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Trump is likely the target in an espionage case. Kash Patel, his National Archives liaison, may be too. He was Trump's mole in the intelligence community for a year. Do the purloined files include docs Patel obtained on Trump's orders? If so, that's slammer time.

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"Whitaker writes in the way Trump tweets, mixing a toxic cocktail of macho MAGA swagger, the angry cant of the Christian right and the whining of a petulant child."

Review | Matthew Whitaker’s fawning defense of President Trump

The former acting attorney general also offers a baseless diatribe against the “deep state.”

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@PreetBharara Ten US generals and one admiral died during seven years of combat operations in Vietnam, One of them by ground fire. Helicopter crashes, mostly.

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@nycsouthpaw Former NYT correspondent in Mexico here. This smells to high heaven.

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Russian disinformation laundered by the Director of US Intelligence. Peak Trump.

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🤔Ratcliffe just declassified to Graham a claim that Russian intel alleged that Clinton “approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against [Trump] by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the DNC.” ...but says “the IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation.”

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The clown-car putsch at the Pentagon, explained.

Perspective | Trump just installed his own deep state at the Pentagon. What is it up to?

Conspiracy theorists are in a position to root out documents the president thinks will prove his version of the “Russia hoax.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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#AbolishTheCIA is a foolish idea, and I write that as the author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. The Bernard Bros need to stop and think before they tweet,

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How a QAnon nut invented the "Ukraine biolabs" story amplified a million-fold by Tucker Carlson and the Kremlin.

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Best spy indictment of the month. A fugitive Israeli-American -- the GOP's "missing witness" against Hunter Biden -- charged with working for China and Iran, alongside unnamed former high-ranking US Government official and adviser to President-elect Trump.

U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Co-Director Of Think Tank For Acting As An Unregistered...

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Christie M. Curtis, the Acting Assistant...

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As a rookie reporter I covered the Hyatt Hotel disaster in 1981; 114 people died. Hallmark built and owned the hotel. It decided not to send flowers to the funerals as that would be an admission of liability. Hallmark: when you care enough to send the very best.

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Incitement to terrorism.

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@emorwee @DKThomp The moray man is Michael Roston . @michaelroston , senior editor, Science Times.

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@JRubinBlogger I've done 6 reporting tours over the years. The wrong turn was at Tora Bora, end of 2001, when focus turned away from Bin Laden to Iraq. The Taliban always figured one day we'd get tired and leave, like the Soviets and the Brits. Anyhow Afghanistan was never ours to win or lose.

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They don't call it The Lost Cause for nothing.

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The following statement from President Trump was just handed to reporters in the briefing room.

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Good take by @emptywheel . I have a good idea why Gl*nn won't ever set foot in the United States. Saving it for the next book.

emptywheel ceci n'est pas un checkmark

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Glenn Greenwald Keeps Bitching about a Law Requiring Notice If You're Funded by Russian Spies

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Author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA here to confirm @AshaRangappa_ and elaborate. The destruction of the CIA is a fantasy and the reality is a different story altogther.

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It seems Russia is reviving state-sponsored terrorism, the scourge of the late 20th century. What say you, @john_sipher @Mpolymer @douglaslondon5 ?

Russian Agents Suspected of Directing Far-Right Group to Mail Bombs in Spain (Published 2023)

U.S. officials say the operation may be a signal by Russia that the country and its proxies could carry out more terrorist actions in Europe if nations continue supporting Ukraine.

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I reported from Afghanistan regularly from 1987 to 2002. @john_sipher is 100 percent right. It's a myth, and an ugly one, that CIA supported bin Laden. They armed the Afghan muj, with lots of unforeseen consequences. The rise of al Qaeda wasn't one of them.

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@JakekarlP @royaltheartist @AshaRangappa_ @360rsd Lots if journalists like to tie contact with mujahedin with contact with Bin Ladin. The first is true. The latter is not.

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RFK Jr. out here saying US makes "ethnically targeted bioweapons." Wonder where he got that that idea? The KGB's department of disinformation said the exact same thing during a global political-warfare campaign in the 1980s.

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@Olivianuzzi @NYMag Extraordinary work by @Olivianuzzi in this piece. Reporting and writing at the highest levels. Kudos.

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Trump, emulating Putin, deploys Little Green Men in an implausibly deniable covert operation.

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Join us -- former FBI counterintelligence sleuth @AshaRangappa_ and me, @Folly_and_Glory -- as we explore how the Russians cleaned our clock and Putin placed an agent of influence in the White House.

P&P Live! Tim Weiner | THE FOLLY AND THE GLORY with Asha Rangappa

Join Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, Tim Weiner, discuss him new book, "THE FOLLY AND THE GLORY" with Asha Rangappa

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Political warfare -- not just Putin's province. Two can play that game.

Perspective | Russians don’t hear the truth about Putin’s war. The CIA can help.

The Cold War playbook shows how to win at political warfare, which the U.S. once excelled at.

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@joshtpm We are all Ukraine.

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@john_sipher @JuliaDavisNews Read the damn paper, Chief. @washingtonpost last week: "Threats of violence, ploys to smuggle guns into the District and calls to set up an 'armed encampment' on the Mall have proliferated in online chats"

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Journalists have always been the only safeguards against corruption. @jkbjournalist on Epstein and Maxwell, @praddenkeefe on the Sacklers, @JohnCarreyrou on Theranos. The list is long. Support your local journalists, or just read them, for the love of God.

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If you want to understand the Dear Leader, @annafifield 's book is essential. Beautifully written to boot.

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In my book "The Great Successor," I wrote that Kim Jong Un's biggest risk factor was his obvious poor health -- and in particular the risk of cardiac problems. Kim Jong Un is five feet, seven inches tall, and weighs about three hundred pounds = BMI of 45, or "extremely obese"

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@whstancil @ParkerMolloy The odious opinionist poses as an investigative reporter. She notes that the hateful LibsofTikTok are now not deemed hateful, serving the resurgence of right-wing Twitter -- while she argues. in Musk's service, that conservative voices are suppressed.

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The former SefDef and DCIA Bob Gates says the US can't project its ideals of democracy abroad. It can't wage political warfare against Russia and China in the wider world. #CIA has this on its hands. Among other things. here:

Opinion | The U.S. needs to relearn how to tell its story to the world

When it comes to getting strategic messaging, Russia and China are running laps around us. Here's how we can change that.

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This seed of this lie was first planted by the KGB in 1967.

The Recount

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2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) claims there is evidence the CIA was involved in the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.

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Guys, I think the president is...losing his composure.

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OBAMAGATE makes Watergate look small time!

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@LTGHRMcMaster Another enabler with regrets. The military men -- McMaster, Mattis, Kelly -- who signed up for a ticket on the Trump train now want off at the end of the ride. None of them had the courage to throw down their stars and resign as a matter of principle. That stain will not out.

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The EU finances secret prisons in Libya where migrants are tortured and killed. Extraordinary reporting by Ian Urbina, who was beaten and jailed by the secret police.

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by...

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@MaxBoot Now conducting a special underwater operation.

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I'll be on @MSNBC 's @TheLastWord at 10 PM Eastern tonight to talk about @CIA , American intelligence, and the war in Ukraine, a focus of my latest book, THE FOLLY AND THE GLORY.

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@Timodc I covered Woolsey for the NYT 30 years ago and wrote the history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes. It’s either Woolsey or Flynn, and now I’m thinking it’s Woolsey, who went off the rails later in life.

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@admcgregor85 1) Ike. The guy who did D-Day knew logistics. 2) FDR. First-class temperament. 3) Obama. Grace under pressure.

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@ericgarland @AshaRangappa_ @joshtpm Never chalk up to conspiracy what you can attribute to stupidity. Conspiracy is hard. Stupidity ain't. It is the most powerful force in the course of human events.

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The deepest look at Russian intelligence by journalists in a long time. Brilliant reporting by @CatherineBelton and @gregpmiller Your thoughts on CIA's penetration of the Russians? @john_sipher @DHWise007 @Mpolymer ?

Russia’s spies misread Ukraine and misled Kremlin as war loomed

A trove of sensitive materials obtained by Ukrainian and other security services and reviewed by The Washington Post offers rare insight into the activities of the FSB, a sprawling security service...

www.washingtonpost.com

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@LarryPfeifferDC @CIA @GenMhayden Terrific tale, well told.

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A devastating account by @charlie_savage @ktbenner and @NytAdamgoldman of the Durham fiasco and the malign influence of the Barr Justice Department.

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This "credible witness" is now under indictment, a fugitive from justice, on federal charges of spying for China and Iran. An unindicted and unnamed co-conspirator: a senior Trump adviser in 2016 (possibly the former CIA director Jim Woolsey).

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Gal Luft, a very credible witness on Biden family corruption, provided incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the DOJ in a meeting in Brussels in March 2019. We have no reason to believe the FBI & DOJ acted on this info. Americans deserve answers. @NEWSMAX

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Featuring . @john_sipher . @AshaRangappa_ . @AmericanMystic . @JohnBrennan . @tracy_walder . @mashagessen . @IlvesToomas Former DCIs Robert M. Gates and Leon Panetta, and amazing people you never heard of. Join us!

‎Whirlwind: America, Russia & Ukraine on Apple Podcasts

‎History · 2023

podcasts.apple.com

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My review of Mike Pompeo's new book: "It's got more venom than a quiver of cobras."

Review | Political books are often bland. Mike Pompeo’s is savage.

“Never Give an Inch” recounts his hard-nosed tactics in the Trump administration, his love for the former president and his disdain for his enemies.

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@IChotiner chotiner (v.): To methodically demolish a famous fool.

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As Iran won the American war in Iraq, so Russia wins the American war in Afghanistan.

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End of an era: U.S. military closes five bases in Afghanistan as part of agreement with Taliban. The bases were located in Helmand, Uruzgan, Paktika and Laghman provinces, per @TOLOnews 8,600 U.S. troops remain, down from high of over 100,000 in 2010.

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@jdickerson Twillpower

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@NateSilver538 With due respect, that is outside the realm of reason.

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@SethAbramson @AshaRangappa_ Is it possible -- hear me out here -- that the White House chief of staff is gas-lighting America?

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@neal_katyal @jgeltzer Can the CJ stand down on a 50-50 witness vote?

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@darkblue714 @john_sipher @StevenLHall1 @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @nadabakos @lawrence_wright @Ali_H_Soufan @peterbergencnn Ideology is the enemy of intelligence.

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Russia's political warfare has captured the Republican Party. If you want to understand the nature of the beast, read THE FOLLY AND THE GLORY: America, Russia, and Political Warfare by yours truly.

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What I'm doing for the next few years. CIA has got its mojo back when it comes to the Kremlin, which makes a great story. China...well, we'll see, won't we?

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. @JaneMayerNYer , . @DavidCornDC , @AshaRangappa_ and . @vermontgmg agree: THE FOLLY AND THE GLORY is the book that takes you through the past into this moment: the national-security nightmare of an agent of influence in the White House. Out September 22!

The Folly and the Glory by Tim Weiner

An urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president.

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My new book is out soon. It's the best thing I've ever written and I hope you will read it. (And maybe preorder it!)

The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020

www.amazon.com

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@AshaRangappa_ ...to combat Nazi propaganda *and Soviet espionage in America.*

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@AshaRangappa_ Natural History museum is awesome. Trinity College library if they’re bookish.

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A-hole in a K-hole: How Elmo took too much ketamine and created X.

zaimiri ✏️

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9. Financial Institution "If done right, X would become half of the global financial system." The vision is to create the most efficient database for the thing that is money. Goals: • Least amount of fraud • Everything real time • Seamless integration

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The only parallel for the disgraceful conduct of Trump, Barr, and Durham was 50 years ago: Nixon, AG John Mitchell, acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray. Nixon fled, Mitchell went to prison, Gray resigned in disgrace. The rule of law was stronger then.

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Excellent story on the first intel on Bin Laden in 1993. The analyst, Gina Bennett, was a young star at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. INR's been punching above its weight for 70 years, excelling CIA and the rest of the gang.

Opinion: The woman who was the first to warn about Osama bin Laden | CNN

Peter Bergen chronicles the career of Gina Bennett, a US intelligence analyst who was the first to alert the US government to the danger presented by the al Qaeda leader

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@gregggonsalves @nytimes The Spanish Inquisition held -- incorrectly, in the view of some theologians -- that burning Muslims and Jews alive was the will of God.

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@asmamk @juliettekayyem When you break it down, neither the Americans nor the Israelis see the Palestinian civilians of Gaza as human beings, so in their eyes BibI's war crimes aren't war crimes, or murderous revenge for the Holocaust, but military maneuvers to defend plucky little Israel.

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THE FOLLY AND THE GLORY: America, Russia, and Political Warfare -- now out in paperback! With full throated endorsements from . @JaneMayerNYer . @AshaRangappa_ & . @DavidCornDC !

Henry Holt & Company

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THE FOLLY AND THE GLORY is now out in paperback! @JaneMayerNYer called it, "A riveting spy thriller made all the more chilling because thanks to @Folly_and_Glory 's meticulous reporting." Pick this one up in paperback now:

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Watergate, but with sociopaths, nincompoops, and Russkies.

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This is a letter from Giuliani to Zelensky which just sort of lays it out for everyone.

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Read it and weep.

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Do you listen to music when you write?

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If Trump pardons himself, it will be the first sentence of his obituary, a story now in first draft.

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@Folly_and_Glory

2 years

@nycsouthpaw What if -- hear me out -- members of the commentariat paid a price for falsehoods?

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tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

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I interviewed Jimmy Carter for an hour, on video, for his own New York Times obituary 15 years ago. He was thoughtful and funny -- and, on the subject of Ronald Reagan, acerbic. It was an honor to meet him.

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4 years

@JohnJHarwood @djrothkopf Keep in mind that the senator's husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. His trade too. He may wind up like Richard Whitney, president of the NYSE from 1930 to 1935, federal prisoner from 1938 to 1941.

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tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

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This indictment depicts a United States Senator corrupting American foreign policy for profit in cahoots with grubby felons, Egyptian generals and spies, and his trophy wife. Epic sleaze from a Senator who’s crooked as the day is long.

U.S._v._Menendez_et_al_Indictment

www.documentcloud.org

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tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

4 years

If he's talking about a moral path, I believe him.

Caitlin Huey-Burns

@CHueyBurns

4 years

Let this sink in: The United States Secretary of Defense claims “I didn’t know where I was going.”

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@pamelacolloff The Trump Administration

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@Folly_and_Glory

2 years

@terrelljstarr @RosaLSmothers Hi, Terrell, longtime NYT reporter here. Ideally, a helmet, even a bicycle helmet. Travel with a local and a translator who knows the roads, pay them well. Connect with the editor hourly, file in paragraphs. Stay low to the ground when and if the shit hits the fan.

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@Folly_and_Glory

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My take on the next CIA director, via the Washington Post,

Perspective | Biden’s CIA pick puts spies back in the service of statecraft

Diplomats and spies have often been at loggerheads. Heading the CIA, William Burns is likely to change that.

www.washingtonpost.com

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2 months

I am now reconsidering my deeply held opinion of Dick Cheney.

Republicans against Trump

@RpsAgainstTrump

2 months

“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump." -Former VP Dick Cheney

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I'm writing a book on the CIA in the 21st century. I'd welcome input from #CIA officers, past and present. It's an epic story. Its themes are counterterrorism, counterintelligence, Russia, China, and espionage in an age of persistent surveillance. DM me or comment in the replies!

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10 months

The Trump adviser cited in the indictment was targeted for a paid recruitment. Trump as president-elect had only a few foreign policy advisers. One was Mike Flynn.

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tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

4 years

@vermontgmg In fairness to Azar, the guy did have experience in running Labs.

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tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

3 years

A very active federal case investigating bribery for a presidential pardon is bubbling under the surface in Washington:

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tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

4 years

I remember the assassinations, Vietnam, America at war with itself in 1968, the Nixon years, Reagan's wars, the first Iraq war, 9/11, the second Iraq war, the great recession. I have never feared more for my country, a failing democracy led by an unstable autocrat.

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tim weiner

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2 years

"Armed forces live or die by virtue of intelligence. They depend on it to know their enemies, to see them coming, to shape strategies for battle, to win the hearts and minds of friends and foes alike."

Perspective | Essential reading for understanding U.S.-Russia intelligence warfare

Tim Weiner assesses books about the long-running war in the shadows.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@Folly_and_Glory

2 years

My take on the mysteries of Mar-a-Lago.

Opinion | The Mysteries of Mar-a-Lago (Published 2022)

What is in those files? Where did they come from? And who shows up on the surveillance tapes from the Trump mansion?

www.nytimes.com

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tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

4 years

We are under attack. And sleepwalking through it.

tim weiner

@Folly_and_Glory

4 years

The Russians' capabilities to monkey-wrench the 2020 elections are enormous. They can alter reporting results. They can bring down power grids. They can deep-fake videos. They can create chaos. Americans are not being forewarned by political leaders or the intelligence community.

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Schulte is a sociopath, the most damaging CIA turncoat in decades, and a kiddie porn enthusiast. It's amazing that Wikileaks is boosting him.

WikiLeaks

@wikileaks

3 months

BREAKING: Alleged WikiLeaks Vault 7 whistleblower Joshua Schulte given a 40 year sentence in a New York federal court today Watch: Inside the CIA's plot to assassinate Julian Assange The Vault 7 revelations led to a plot by the CIA to assassinate the publisher Julian Assange

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