(2022-06-09). Spanish court calls Pompeo to testify over Assange surveillance. greenleft.org.au Former CIA director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been summoned to testify on the conduct of a private security firm hired to spy on Julian Assange while he was in the Ecuadori
(2022-06-09). While Waiting for Supreme Court Decision on Abortion, Large Street Protest in SF. indybay.org The Supreme Court released only one decision Wednesday, June 8 but it was not the anticipated case that would determine the fate of Roe v. Wade.
(2022-06-09). Larry Sounds Off On Intel. smoothiex12.blogspot.com He, sure as hell, knows what he is talking about, being former CIA himself. Reviewing the piece in NYT (same piece I reviewed earlier today) he notes:
(2022-06-08). Ukraine Not Giving US Much Information About Its Operations Against Russia. news.antiwar.com The New York Times Current and former officials told the Times that US intelligence agencies have a far better picture of Russia's military operations than Ukraine's. Even in high-level talks with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, Ukrainian officials have only shared their strategic goals, not their operational plans. | Washington has such little information on…
(2022-06-08). Warren, Murray Lead Call for Biden to Defend Abortion Rights via Executive Order. commondreams.org "With an extremist Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, now is the time to act," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
(2022-06-08). The US Supreme Court Has Become a Right-Wing Corporate Conspiracy. commondreams.org A handful of aloof, unelected judges have been turning what's supposed to be a citadel of justice into an unrestrained political instrument for instituting autocratic, plutocratic, theocratic power over us.
(2022-06-08). Trump's CIA director Gina Haspel watched as a detainee was tortured at US black site in Thailand in 2002. wsws.org One of the psychiatrists who waterboarded detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri testified that Gina Haspel, who later became director of the CIA, observed the torture sessions.