Tag: CIA

Durham Confirms Brennan’s CIA Notes That Clinton Campaign Sought to Tie Trump to Russia | Truth Over News

On July 28, 2016, CIA director John Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama on an “intelligence bombshell”—information that the corporate media claimed was “drawn from sourcing deep inside the Russian government.” According to media reports describing the briefing, Vladi­mir Putin had approved a campaign to “defeat or at least damage” Hillary Clinton and help elect her opponent, Donald…


Newly Declassified Documents Reveal CIA’s Secret Bulk Collection Program, Problems With How American Data Is Handled: Lawmakers

Newly declassified documents reveal the Central Intelligence Agency’s previously secret bulk collection program and problems with how it searches and handles Americans’ information, according to Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). The two senators sent a letter (pdf) to top intelligence officials in April 2021 calling for more details about the program and for it to be declassified….


Newly Declassified Documents Reveal CIA’s Secret Bulk Collection Program: Lawmakers

Newly declassified documents reveal the Central Intelligence Agency’s previously secret bulk collection program and problems with how it searches and handles Americans’ information, according to Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). The two senators sent a letter (pdf) to top intelligence officials in April 2021 calling for more details about the program and for it to be declassified….


Venezuelan Ex General Says CIA Knew of Plots Against Maduro

A former Venezuelan general accused of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, says there’s no way he participated in such a scheme. After all, how could Clíver Antonio Alcalá Cordones have conspired with Maduro, when the CIA knows he was one of the rebels working to overthrow Maduro’s socialist government? This was…


IG Reports Detail CIA Sex Crimes Against Children

Recently published Central Intelligence Agency inspector general reports show that at least 10 CIA employees or contractors were suspected of sex crimes against children over the last 14 years, but only one of them was prosecuted. Buzzfeed News published the IG reports Dec. 1 after a nearly 10-year fight with the CIA to obtain them. The heavily…


Before the Epstein Scandal, There Was the Franklin Scandal

News Analysis On Dec. 4, demonstrators will rally in New York to protest what they say is a coverup of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell alleged pedophile network. “The nonviolent, non-politically partisan demonstration will send a message to the Department of Justice that the American people will not settle for only Maxwell being indicted on one…


Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization

Commentary Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America. Yet American conservatives still adamantly supported the nation’s traditional investigatory, intelligence, and military agencies—especially when they came under budgetary or cultural attacks. Not so much anymore. For the…


Penniless CIA Is Weak on the CCP

Commentary The CIA lags on China intelligence by at least a decade. Only in August did it moot the idea of a “China Mission Center,” which it finally announced on Oct. 7. The center will reportedly make it easier to leverage agency resources to address the growing China threat, and intelligence failures of the last…


China Uses ‘Whole-of-Society’ Effort to Steal From the US: Former CIA Officer

China is using a whole-of-society approach to steal its way to become a military power, and the U.S. government needs to better defend against such an espionage campaign, said a retired CIA officer. “U.S. security officials estimate that the Chinese steal between $300 billion and $600 billion a year in U.S. intellectual property, research and…


China Uses ‘Whole-of-Society’ Effort to Steal From US: Former CIA Officer

China is using a whole-of-society approach to steal its way to becoming a military power, and the U.S. government needs to better defend against such an espionage campaign, according to a retired CIA officer. “U.S. security officials estimate that the Chinese steal between $300 billion and $600 billion a year in U.S. intellectual property, research…