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US sees China watching Ukraine crisis as proxy for Taiwan

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration increasingly believes that China is gauging the U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis as a proxy for how America would deal with more aggressive action by Beijing against Taiwan, according to three senior officials.

Tribune News Service

Declassified documents reveal CIA has been sweeping up information on Americans

Civil liberties watchdogs condemn agency’s collection of domestic data without congressional or court approval or oversight

The Guardian - US

New Report Highlights an Old Problem—the CIA Is Still Snooping on Americans

In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.

Reason

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Senators say CIA is collecting Americans’ private data in secret bulk surveillance program

‘The secret nature of the CIA’s activities in PCLOB report raise these very concerns,’ Sens Martin Heinrich and Ron Wyden wrote.

The Independent UK

White House confirms Biden-Putin call on Saturday – as it happened

US national security adviser urges Americans to leave Ukraine while US officials say Putin has decided to invade

The Guardian - US

Nicholas Goldberg: Twenty years on, here's the legacy of American torture in the war on terror

Remember when the George W. Bush administration began sweeping up suspected terrorists and whisking them off, hooded and shackled, to offshore CIA "black sites" around the world where they were tortured into confessing to all sorts of crimes?

Los Angeles Times

Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data

Two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee say the CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans

The Independent UK

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Havana syndrome has ‘dramatically hurt’ morale, US diplomats say

American Foreign Service Association chief Eric Rubin says syndrome, whose cause has yet to be determined, has affected recruitment

The Guardian - US

Man claims QAnon followers told him to murder his wife because she was CIA operative

He believed that his wife was son of president Joe Biden who had a sex change operation

The Independent UK

White Malice: how the CIA strangled African independence at birth

Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of southern Africa, she empathises with the continent’s people.

The Conversation

Edward Snowden Raises Doubts Over Whether The Feds Are Telling The Whole Story On $4.5B Confiscated Bitcoin

Former CIA agent and whistleblower Edward Snowden has reacted to the arrest of two persons by the U.S.

Benzinga

US spies teach Ukraine forces covert ops as tensions soar over Russian invasion fears

The CIA's paramilitary section is training Ukraine's special forces about a broad-range of covert operations, including how to launch sabotage, surveillance, espionage and even assassination attacks as Moscow reinforces its western border with 126,000 troops

Daily Mirror

JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald ‘worked for CIA’ and lone gunman theory ‘bulls***’, claims expert

Dr Cyril Wecht, who has devoted almost six decades to study of alleged conspiracy, alleges in new book that gunman had been working on orders of former agency director Allen Dulles

The Independent UK

John Singlaub: Audacious general who waged a private battle against communism

As well as publicly clashing with Jimmy Carter over troops in Korea, Singlaub funnelled weapons and money to anti-communist insurgents around the world

The Independent UK

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Islamic State leader dead after US commandos raid house in Syria

NEW YORK: A risky predawn raid by US special operations forces that resulted in the death of the Islamic State group’s leader on Thursday was set in motion months ago with a tip that the top terrorist was hiding out on the top floor of a house in northwest Syria.

The Hindu

Kabul bomber was on a suicide mission to India in 2017

Was deported after CIA tip-off

The Guardian - US

The CIA tortured him after 9/11. Then they lied. Will the truth ever come out?

Calls mount for release of full Senate report on the torture of Abu Zubaydah, to counter a narrative too many Americans still believe – that torture works

ABC News

Alleged Nicolás Maduro co-conspirator Cliver Alcalá says CIA knew about Venezuelan coup plans

A retired Venezuelan army general says US officials were aware of his efforts to oust Nicolás Maduro — a role he says should immediately debunk criminal charges that he worked alongside the country's leader to flood the US with cocaine.

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The Independent UK

Alleged Maduro co-conspirator says CIA knew about coup plans

A retired Venezuelan army general says U.S. officials at the highest levels of the CIA and other federal agencies were aware of his efforts to oust Nicolás Maduro — a role he says should immediately debunk criminal charges that he worked alongside the socialist leader to flood the U.S. with…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Washington Vows More Sanctions on Houthi Leaders

Washington has pledged to take the “necessary steps” and use all “appropriate tools” to hold Houthis responsible for the recent attacks against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and their role in protracting the conflict in Yemen, described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. A sharp rhetoric is being…

The Guardian - US

For sale: CIA ‘black site’ where terror suspects were tortured in Lithuania

Government prepares to sell barn known as Project No 2 or Detention Site Violet, which has windowless, soundproof rooms

Reuters

Your own CIA jail? Lithuania to sell secret U.S. 'rendition' site

A huge steel barn outside Lithuania's capital, whose long corridor and windowless rooms with carpets and soundproof doors once served as a CIA detention centre, will soon go on sale.

Reuters

Who is Yevhen Murayev, named by Britain as Kremlin's pick to lead Ukraine?

Britain has accused the Kremlin of wanting to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine, and said Russian intelligence officers had been in contact with former Ukrainian politicians as part of plans for a military offensive.

Dublin Live

Ex-CIA operative begging Irish government to grant him asylum so he can avoid facing multi-million dollar fraud charge

Soldier turned business film mogul Don Victor Cisternino — who is locked up in Croatia pending his extradition to the United States for charges over an alleged €6.4 million loan scam — also has an Irish passport and has pleaded with authorities here to give him political asylum

The Independent UK

Thich Nhat Hanh, influential Zen Buddhist monk, dies at 95

Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died

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