by WorldTribune Staff, May 26, 2016 While the mainstream media continues to downplay Hillary Clinton’s email scandal to protect their candidate, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans are letting the public know just how serious the situation is. The 14 intel vets signed a memo saying Clinton endangered national security “by carelessly exposing highly classified […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant horrified the West with its mass beheadings of hostages and used its notoriety to attract restless youth worldwide. But such barbaric tactics is not what primarily concerns Navy Adm. William Gortney, commander of the Colorado-based U.S. Northern Command. Nor is the possibility that ISIL is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Larry Grathwohl may be best known as the FBI informant in the Weather Underground who disclosed the murderous roles of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, in their Weather Underground criminal gang. Unexpectedly, Larry, a good friend for many years, passed away last week. The Weather Underground had put out […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid A former Washington Post reporter is excusing the secret sex life and lies of David Petraeus, the retired general who resigned in disgrace as Obama’s CIA director. Petraeus and his mistress Paul Broadwell are currently under investigation for unauthorized disclosure and possession of classified information. Thomas E. Ricks, a […]
Wesley Pruden What did the president know, and when did he know it? Of what steel are the Republicans in Congress made? We’re about to find out. Big scandals from little leaks grow. Watergate was at first only “a third-rate burglary.” Bubba thought he was only trying to cover up the details of a failed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has concluded that Al Qaida sought American weapons for attacks in Iraq. Officials said Al Qaida in Iraq, or AQI, tried to procure U.S.-origin Stinger surface-to-air missiles for the Sunni insurgency network. They said AQI might have sent Iraqis to the United States to acquire Stinger as […]
May 23, ,2008 Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The FBI lacks agents fluent in Arabic and must undergo a review of its counter-insurgency program, a top official testified. Bassem Youssef, a chief in the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit, said the agency has refused to hire or train agents fluent in Arabic. In written testimony to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Al Qaida has developed a bomb that could penetrate U.S. security and blow up aircraft. Officials said Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula assembled a bomb that did not contain metal and could be worn as underwear. They said AQAP had planned to send an operative with the underwear improvised […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — A man who Egyptian authorities say matches the description of Al Qaida operations chief Seif Al Adel insists it is a case of mistaken identity. The Egyptian national, who was arrested on Feb. 29 at Cairo International Airport, said however that he had been a member of Al Qaida. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid A May 24 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline program quoted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as saying he’d never had any contact with Bradley Manning and that he had no information indicating that the former Army intelligence analyst was the source of the classified U.S. intelligence information released by WikiLeaks. […]