Michael Isikoff
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Ex-Twitter executive: Saudi dissidents should be wary of Elon Musk takeover
Former Twitter executive Vivian Schiller believes Saudi dissidents should consider dropping their use of the social media platform in light of the outside role that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has in the newly organized company under Elon Musk. → Read More
Expert: If Putin uses nukes, U.S. could wipe out Russian forces in Ukraine
If Vladimir Putin makes good on his threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the United States would likely respond with a sweeping economic embargo combined with massive conventional attack on Russian military positions that could quickly wipe out the the Russian president’s invading military forces, said Joseph Cirincione, a national security analyst and leading expert on nuclear warfare. → Read More
Trump could be charged with violating the Espionage Act, former DOJ national security chief says
The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests that the former president could be charged with violating the World War I-era Espionage Act. → Read More
Georgia grand jury subpoenas Giuliani, Graham and other members of Trump’s legal team
The district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, has dramatically expanded her investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, issuing subpoenas to Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and five members of Trump’s legal team, including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. → Read More
Georgia investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election ramps up
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is stepping up the pace of her investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. → Read More
Georgia Gov. Kemp defeats Trump-backed challenger, former Senator Perdue in GOP primary
In a major blow to Donald Trump’s reputation as the Republican kingmaker, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp trounced former Sen. David Perdue in the GOP primary for governor. → Read More
Roberts may face roadblocks in probe of Roe leak, reporter who published it says
One of the two Politico reporters who obtained the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade questions whether Chief Justice John Roberts has the legal authority to order his fellow justices and their clerks to cooperate in an internal investigation into who leaked the document. → Read More
New Hunter Biden revelations raise counterintelligence questions
Emails on a damaged laptop that Hunter Biden left at a computer repair store in Wilmington, Del., bank records and other documents uncovered by Senate Republican investigators, reveal a high-dollar money trail that flowed from Chinese interests to Hunter Bidens and his uncle James. → Read More
Buttigieg slams 'Don't Say Gay' bill and 'nonsensical' Marjorie Taylor Greene speech
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg sharply criticized Florida’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law, signed this week by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, and ridiculed what he called the “literally nonsensical” comments about his personal life by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. → Read More
Putin may have ‘lost touch with reality,’ expert says
Russian President Vladimir Putin is now isolated and increasingly paranoid, having launched a war in Ukraine that has alarmed even some of his closest advisers, says Catherine Belton, a former Moscow-based correspondent for the Financial Times, → Read More
Schiff 'vehemently' disagrees with Attorney General Garland's reluctance to pursue Trump
House intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says he “vehemently” disagrees with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s failure so far to aggressively investigate former President Donald Trump. → Read More
Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report 'should all be prosecuted'
Former CIA director Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency in 2017 to abduct WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and discussions within the Trump administration and CIA to possibly even assassinate him. → Read More
9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser is still waiting for answers from the U.S. government
Twenty years later, Kristen Breitweiser is still waiting for answers about why her husband had to die. → Read More
McMaster on Afghanistan carnage: 'What we saw today is just the beginning'
Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster called on President Biden to “reverse course” in the aftermath of Thursday’s bombings in Kabul, urging him to scrap his deadline for pulling troops out of Afghanistan, cut off dealings with the Taliban and launch a new war on terror in Central Asia. → Read More
Prior to his murder, Jamal Khashoggi offered to help 9/11 victims suing Saudi Arabia
A year before his death, Jamal Khashoggi — a Saudi insider with intimate knowledge of his country’s interactions with al-Qaida — met with a former FBI agent working for the families of 9/11 victims who were suing his government and asked how he could help. → Read More
'A personality type that feels absolutely no guardrails': How Saudi Arabia's leader charmed Washington while cracking down on opponents
The strange story of how Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman managed successfully to court the United States' foreign policy and corporate elite, starting in 2015, presenting himself as a cultured reformer. → Read More
Boulder Mayor to gun owners: Banning assault weapons is not tyranny
Contending that an assault weapons ban could have prevented the gun massacre that killed 10 people in his city this week, Boulder Mayor Sam Weaver pleaded with gun rights advocates to reconsider their opposition to such a move, asking them to address a single overriding question: “Why wouldn’t you want a future where we have fewer innocent people killed?” → Read More
New film highlights FBI abuses as House Democrats push to strip Hoover's name from building
A group of House Democrats is mounting a renewed push to strip J. Edgar Hoover’s name off the FBI headquarters in the wake of a powerful new film, "Judas and the Black Messiah," that highlights one of the bureau’s worst abuses under his leadership: COINTELPRO. → Read More
Biden response to Khashoggi investigation ‘shocking,’ UN official says
The UN official who investigated the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi sharply criticized President Biden’s response to the killing, saying his administration’s failure to sanction Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent a “dangerous” message to world leaders. → Read More
Khashoggi report spurs 9/11 families to push Biden for more Saudi disclosures
Seizing on the new disclosures about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the families of Sept. 11 victims are asking President Biden to release still-classified documents about an FBI investigation into the Saudi role in the terror attacks that were blocked from public release by the Trump administration. → Read More