[Link] The Classified Document Scandal Is Even Dumber Than You Think

Read: 29/1/2023 www.vice.com

It’s hard to imagine a dumber way to protect our national intelligence. President Biden is facing a Justice Department special counsel investigation that’s already included an FBI search of his home after his team found classified documents at his house and private office.

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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.

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[Link] Colin Powell’s UN speech: a decisive moment in undermining US credibility

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN security council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.

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