A NYT Magazine piece on Colin Powell and the case to invade Iraq highlights an NIE that was prepared not to determine the truth, but rather to “justify” preemptive war on Iraq, where there was nothing to preempt.
Category: VIPS
RAY McGOVERN: How an Internet ‘Persona’ Helped Birth Russiagate
VIPS MEMO: To the AG–More on Mueller’s Forensics-Free Findings
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity have written a new memo to Attorney General William Barr in regard to new evidence indicating there was no hack of the Democratic National Committee computers.
CN LIVE! New Episode—‘Russiagate: Who Was Guccifer 2.0?’–Watch the Replay
VIPS MEMO: To the President—Avoid Hostilities Over Iranian Fuel Shipment to Venezuela
RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC
RAY McGOVERN: Queen’s Counsel Charges vs Assange ‘Significantly Overwrought’
VIPS MEMO: Doubling Down Into Yet Another ‘March of Folly,’ This Time on Iran
“We write with a sense of urgency suggesting you avoid doubling down on catastrophe,” VIPS tells Donald Trump in its latest memo to the president.
VIPS Memo to the President: Is Pompeo’s Iran Agenda the Same As Yours?
VIPS: Extradition of Julian Assange Threatens Us All
Retaliation against Julian Assange over the past decade plus replicates a pattern of ruthless political retaliation against whistleblowers, in particular those who reveal truths hidden by illegal secrecy, VIPS says.