Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – The CIA has struck alarm bells here with a top-secret report to President Trump telling him he has just three months to stop North Korea from having the ability to fire a nuclear warhead at the United States. The report has deepened the bitter divide between hawks […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 6, 2017 Donald Trump was in the cross-hairs of the Obama administration’s top intelligence chiefs long before he took the oath of office. From candidate to president-elect and then president, Trump was targeted in an unprecedented smear campaign by openly partisan former Obama intelligence officials who have continued to wield out-sized […]
Special to WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 By Joseph Churba The following excerpt is from ‘The Washington Compromise‘ by the late Dr. Joseph Churba, University Press, 1995. The Republican National Convention was held in Detroit on July 14-17, 1980. With Reagan’s candidacy assured, the only remaining question befell the choice of running mate. Henry Kissinger, hoping […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 4, 2017 Former FBI officials said that the Saudi government officials helped 9/11 terrorists prepare for the attack and hide out in the United States. Affidavits filed by three former FBI officials that were provided to the Washington Examiner allege that Saudi Arabia used intricate espionage “tradecraft” to assist the September […]
by Robert Morton, WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 On Nov. 25, 1991, a Brooklyn-born intelligence expert of Syrian Jewish descent rattled a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing with his proposed response to the emerging North Korean nuclear threat. After being challenged he responded with a warning that now, 36 years later, seems eerily prophetic. While other […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2017 The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said he has instructed committee staff to draw up contempt of Congress charges for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray for their failure to reveal why special counsel Robert Mueller removed a key FBI agent from the Trump-Russia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct The case against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who allegedly engineered a massive bribery scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran could also implicate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn. Reza Zarrab has pleaded guilty in a New York federal court. Prosecutors described Zarrab, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2017 The Pentagon’s acting inspector general has initiated a formal investigation into allegations of sweetheart political deals by the new head of a legendary independent think tank that served as a “Team B” to the military bureaucracy. The director of the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment retaliated against an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A wealthy Turkish-Iranian businessman who was the alleged mastermind in what U.S. prosecutors say was a high-level conspiracy to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions will not stand trial this week as scheduled, though the case is proceeding against his co-defendant. U.S. Judge Richard Berman announced on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2017 Top Obama-named U.S. intelligence officials, in a coordinated public assessment, on Jan. 6, 2017 publicly stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had instructed Russian operatives to help engineer Donald Trump’s move to the White House. The monumental announcement was made 14 days before Trump’s inauguration and was a watershed […]
