Former CIA chief Brennan asks court to stop Trump-appointed judge from overseeing his case - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/msn-uk/trump-judge-cia/
"King" Trump has signed what’s called a “presidential finding,”
or a classified directive authorizing covert action, against the regime of Venezuelan ruler Nicolšs Maduro.
This would allow the CIA to conduct “lethal operations in Venezuela”
as well as “a range of operations in the Caribbean,” according to the Times.
Covert action could be taken “either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation.”
Deets on #CIA’s early 2000's era #covert ops #Aggro mission that began modifying #poppy seed properties in 2004 and dropped them by the billions from ai…
Das #Kryptos scheint gelöst worden zu sein. Zwei Nerds haben einen Seitenkanalangriff gestartet und den Klartext extrahiert.
Kryptos ist eine Skulptur vor der #cia mit geheimem Text. Seit Jahren wird versucht, den Text zu entschlüsseln.
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Solution to CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Is Found in Smiths…
Ich frage mich, ob der #Afghane, der (bereits?) in Afghanistan mit der #CIA zusammengearbeitet hat und jetzt in Washington Nationalgardisten erschoss, nicht irgendwie instruiert wurde, so etwas zu tun... ich finde, die Geschichte passt zu gut zum Narrativ von
I’m mildly surprised Agent #Krasnov didn’t secure him a pardon.
#AldrichAmes, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84 - The Washington Post
John Kiriakou, former CIA intelligence officer. Get ready for him to make you very, very uncomfortable.
▶️ Does The CIA Make People Disappear? CIA Spy Reveals | LADbible Stories
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BXtDH2IXKY8&si=68Zm6HnF_hCZnTI2
CIA officials livid as Trump throws agency under the bus: 'Near-universal dismay' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cia-2674838453/
i am being gang stalked by the CIA
Wait, do we really think Marmalade Mussolini and his merry band of incompetent chuckleheads would do this?!
Yes, yes we do. Totally plausible.
"Interior minister Diosdado Cabello said that a cell ‘financed by the CIA’ planned to attack the USS Gravely and pin the blame on Caracas [Venezuela], after the missile destroyer docked in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday to conduct joint exercises with Trinidad's navy."
"The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own."
– Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (published January 1, 1999).
Tell me this is not exactly what tech companies are doing. And UX, my own industry, has a lot to answer for.
So what was the point of putting a bug in Trump's ear? To be outed as a liar, to make an excuse end to the conflict?
Ukraine didn't target Putin's home: CIA
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/cia-assesses-ukraine-was-not-targeting-a-putin-residence-in-drone-attack-contrary-to-kremlin-claim-sources-say/
What do you think? Did Venezuela just “thwart” a false flag?
“Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.
It claims the US would have blamed Venezuela for the attack on the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, to justify aggression against it.”
Australia Broadcasting reporting: #usa #venezuela #war
Yup. Trump wants a confrontation.
No. Venezuela likely faking the false flag.
I am 172 pages into "Legacy of Ashes - The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner, and if I read an account of a fictional intelligence agency this corrupt and this incompetent I would dismiss it as impossibly unrealistic.
If the November 2025 election was a referendum on President Trump, the Democrats have a lot to celebrate tonight.
Democratic candidates swept key races:
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, beat Trump-endorsed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a historic election for New York City mayor.
Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a 46-year-old Democrat who previously worked as a CIA officer, beat a Republican candidate to become Virginia governor.
Rep…
"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"
#kleptocracy
Legacy Media…
If you can’t trust a former member of a CIA Death Squad, who can you trust?
"[The Dutch] security services have curtailed their sharing of intelligence with their American counterparts, including the CIA and NSA."
https://open.substack.com/pub/alexzfinley/p/the-dutch-stop-going-dutch-with-the?r=8k45…
Many lawyers and career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department ...
who had raised concerns about using lethal force against "narcotraffickers" ...
either left government or were reassigned or removed.
https://skywriter.b…
Russia turns over drone data to U.S. from alleged attack on Putin’s Valdai residence as CIA and NSA find no confirmation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/russia-turns-over-drone-data.html
Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 24. Dezember 1962 führte die #Sowjetunion Test 219 durch – eine der stärksten Atomexplosionen der Geschichte. Mit 24,4 Megatonnen Sprengkraft markierte dieser Test einer #Interkontinentalrakete eine weitere Eskalation im nuklearen Wettrüsten.
"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."
#kleptocracy
Legacy M…
The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
-- @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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"President Trump was briefed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe at the White House on Wednesday, where he was informed that there is no evidence Ukraine launched an attack on Putin’s residence"
Trump briefed on intelligence regarding Ukraine’s alleged plot on Putin’s residence
https://thehill.com/homenews/5668819-trump-briefed-ukraine-russia-attack/
The man suspected of shooting two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was once part of a C.I.A.-backed paramilitary group, one of several so-called Zero Units, according to Afghan and U.S. officials.
These units, formerly known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, were trained to conduct night raids and clandestine missions across Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country. By the time the United States had withdrawn from Afghanistan in August 2021,
the units had offi…
By the CIA, then by DHS...
National Guard shooting suspect was likely vetted by US before being granted asylum - Everett Post
https://www.everettpost.com/politics/national-guard-shooting-suspect-was-likely-vetted-by-us-before-being-granted-asylum/
Stephen Miller, who has overseen Trump’s hard-line agenda on drugs and immigration, and other top advisers never lost sight of their goal of crushing the cartels.
And in pursuing this goal they were aided in part by a personnel restructuring that removed potential obstacles.
Many of the lawyers and other career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department
who had over the preceding months raised concerns about using lethal force a…
"I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. …
Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies.
It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation."
— Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law,
in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers
to Ch…
Trump administration turned to Pentagon after CIA lawyers nixed drug boat attacks: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-boats-2674333957/
This feels a bit like the early days of the CIA,
when countries like Great Britain and the USSR,
who had long histories of espionage experience,
regularly ate the US's lunch re intelligence.
https://www.wsj.com/world/putin-witkoff-ru
Trump admin dealt major blow as migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia's trial canceled and 'vindictiveness' hearing set - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2674828487/
Ex-CIA director calls Jim Jordan a Trump 'supplicant' in response to criminal referral - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/john-brennan-trump-doj/
"If you announce that you’re going to have covert CIA action, it’s no longer covert,”
Rand Paul said to host Kristen Welker.
“So if you’re going to spy on a country you usually don’t announce that you’re going to spy on a country."
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115401672627750240
'Sick': DOJ under fire over new deportation plan for Abrego Garcia - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2674231537/
ICE official tells judge someone else wrote his declaration in Kilmar García case - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2674314347/