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Sep 10 2019
News
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald
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May 22 2022
Analysis
Israel Killed Reporter Abu Akleh—but US Media Disguised the Facts
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known and much-loved Al Jazeera reporter who covered Palestine for two decades, was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper May 11 while documenting an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank.
Footage of the moments after her death show Abu Akleh, still wearing her press vest and helmet, lying face down on
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Jun 14 2022
News
How US military aids Ukraine with information, not just weaponry
What’s the responsible way to use military intelligence in aid of an ally? The sharing of U.S.-gathered secrets has already helped Ukraine in important ways, but officials also have reasons to be cautious.
When a news story leaked last month that Washington is helping Ukraine kill Russian generals through United States intelligence tips, Pentagon officials quickly took to the podium to
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Oct 27 2021
News
Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures
Federal Trade Commission staffers have begun looking into disclosures that Facebook Inc.’s FB -0.87% internal company research had identified ill effects from its products, according to people familiar with the matter.
Officials are looking into whether Facebook research documents indicate that it might have violated a 2019 settlement with the agency over privacy concerns, for which the
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Sep 29 2022
News
Kremlin says Putin will sign ‘treaties’ to annex Ukrainian regions
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday will formally move to seize four Ukrainian territories by signing documents that the Kremlin is calling “accession treaties.”
The signing ceremony, to take place in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Friday, marks Putin’s attempt to annex the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, even though Russia does not fully control any of them
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Aug 26 2022
News
'Trump will be indicted': Mar-a-Lago affidavit spells trouble for the former president and decimates his main defense
A federal magistrate judge on Friday unsealed a redacted version of an FBI affidavit that legal experts said is a damning blow to former President Donald Trump as he's criminally investigated over his handling of official government records.
Significant portions of the document were blacked out to conceal information that might reveal:
The identities of people (witnesses, law
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Sep 07 2022
Analysis
Why Trump’s FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years
Judge Aileen Cannon’s order suspending one of the Justice Department’s criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump, at least until a court-appointed official can review documents the FBI seized from Trump, is a trainwreck of judicial reasoning. Cannon mangles the law so completely that it’s hard to know where to even begin in criticizing her opinion in Trump v. United States.
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Oct 04 2021
News
Facebook whistleblower revealed on '60 Minutes,' says the company prioritized profit over public good
New York (CNN Business)The identity of the Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents — leading to a firestorm for the social media company in recent weeks — was revealed on "60 Minutes" Sunday night as Frances Haugen.
The 37-year-old former Facebook product manager who worked on civic integrity issues at the company says the
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Feb 20 2023
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: 'Disinformation Risk Assessment' Lacks Transparency, Shows Bias Against the Right
From the CenterThe Global Disinformation Index (rated as Left bias by AllSides) recently published its 2022 “Disinformation Risk Assessment” on U.S. news media sources. The assessment ranked 69 sources on the likelihood that they’ll publish disinformation, by the group’s definition (explained later).
It’s good to want to be aware of misinformation and disinformation. But GDI’s
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Aug 21 2013
News
Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case
Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the soldier convicted of giving a trove of secret U.S. documents to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday in the largest public breach of classified data in history. The judge, Col. Denise Lind, also demoted him to private and dishonorably discharged him from the Army at the brief hearing. She did not provide any reasoning
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