It could “only be a matter of weeks” before Iran is capable of enriching uranium to 90 percent purity, at which point the country could manufacture nuclear weapons, according to CIA Director William Burns. “To the best of our knowledge, we don’t believe that the supreme leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume…
Only ‘A Matter of Weeks’ Before Iran Could Be Able to Manufacture Nuclear Weapons: CIA Chief
Blinken Delays China Trip After Spy Balloon Discovery
Eyes in the skies? The Pentagon is currently tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States. It’s been lingering over a military base, raising all sorts of security alarms. Gliding in at around the same size as three buses end-to-end, the balloon is visible from earth. Topics in this episode: Blinken Delays…
Will Jordan’s Subcommittee Be Able to Achieve What the ‘Church Committee’ Could Not?
Commentary Important and laudable as it was at the time (1975), we must conclude that the Senate’s vaunted “Church Committee,” under Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), ultimately failed in its mission to reform the CIA, FBI, IRS, and the National Security Agency (NSA) anywhere near permanently. Now, 48 years later, we are in a similar, arguably worse,…
NTD News Today (Dec. 19): FBI Pressures Twitter on State Propaganda; CIA Director: TikTok Is ‘Genuinely Troubling’
A new Twitter Files thread takes a deeper dive into how the FBI pushed Twitter executives to greater action against so-called “propaganda” from foreign actors. The director of the CIA is warning about the dangers and risks posed by TikTok. He is highlighting the Chinese regime’s control over the social media platform. Expectations are building…
For All to See: Corporations Acting As Wilful Tools of Government Threaten the Republic
December 16, 2022
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Commentary Before he died, Reagan-era Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, who gave virtually his entire life to public service, lamented Americans’ loss of faith in governmental institutions. Given the recent revelations about how partisan interests have infested those institutions—whether it be the IRS, the FBI, the CIA, or even the CDC—and how the media colluded with…
Putin’s Spy Chief Says He Discussed Ukraine With CIA Director
Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said in an interview published on Wednesday that he discussed nuclear issues and Ukraine in a meeting earlier this month with U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns. The two men met in Turkey on Nov. 14 in the highest-level face-to-face contact between the two sides since Russia invaded…
Who Really Owns Big Digital Tech?
December 1, 2022
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Commentary By now it should be perfectly clear that the most prominent Big Digital companies are not strictly private, for-profit companies. As I argued in “Google Archipelago,” they are also state apparatuses, or governmentalities, undertaking state functions, including censorship, propaganda, and surveillance. Katherine Boyle, “a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she invests in companies that…
A Key Date in The Efforts Against an Incoming President
News Analysis Jan. 12, 2017, has proven to be an incredibly important date in American politics. It was on this date that Igor Dancehnko’s soon-to-be FBI handler, Kevin Helson, sent an email regarding Danchenko with the heading: “Plan to convert into [confidential human source].” Danchenko, of course, was the primary source for former British spy…
Cryptocurrency Pioneer Wrote CIA Would ‘Frame’ Him a Day Before He Died in Puerto Rico
November 2, 2022
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The co-founder of the cryptocurrency lending platform MakerDAO and the decentralized stablecoin Dai, Nikolai Mushegian, has been found dead in Puerto Rico at the age of 29, sparking speculation on Twitter regarding the circumstances surrounding his death. Mushegian’s death was confirmed by local news outlet El Nuevo Dia on Friday. The publication, citing police, reported that he had…
CIA Chief Responds to Putin’s Alleged Nuclear Threat
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) weighed in on recent warnings made by Russian officials regarding the use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict. “We have to take very seriously [any] kind of threats, given everything that’s at stake,” CIA Director William Burns told CBS News this week. But Burns noted that…
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