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Jefferson Morley

Jefferson Morley is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of the Deep State, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He has been a reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., since 1980. He spent 15 years as an editor and reporter at the Washington Post. He was a staff writer at Arms Control Today and Washington editor of Salon. He is the editor and co-founder of JFK Facts, a blog about the assassination of JFK. His latest book is The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster, James Jesus Angleton.

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US President Donald Trump and other members of the task force listen as National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 21, 2020, in Washington, DC. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Three questions investigators must ask about Trump’s response to COVID-19

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The seal of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, on the floor of the lobby of the Original Headquarters Building.

How the U.S. Intelligence community is intervening in the 2020 election

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) presides over Resolution 755 as the House of Representatives votes on the second article of impeachment of US President Donald Trump at in the House Chamber at the US Capitol Building on December 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to successfully pass two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Democrats undermined their case for impeachment by dragging national security into the fold

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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

After Israel targeted Soleimani, Trump pulled the trigger

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Donald Trump (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why John Durham won’t save Trump either

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The Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba. (AP/Brennan Linsleyl)

“The Report”: Torture meets truth in Obama’s Washington

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Edward Snowden (Getty Images)

Understanding the two types of whistleblowers

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Impeachment frenzy in Washington sets Trump off against the CIA

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Heading into 2020, Trump is gaining control of U.S. intelligence

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A new book reveals just how sophisticated surveillance has become

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Trump’s pressure valve against Iran is approaching the bursting point

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses his supporters at the main market of Jerusalem on April 8, 2019, a day ahead of the electoral polls. (Getty/Menahem Kahana)

Expect three authoritarian regimes — Israel, Russia and Saudi Arabia — to get Trump reelected in 202

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How secret Israeli attacks in Iraq are driving Trump’s anti-Iran campaign

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People gather at makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP/Andres Leighton)

Why white nationalist mass shootings should make us rethink “national security”

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Democratic presidential hopefuls New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Washington Governor Jay Inslee and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney participate in the first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season in Miami, Florida, June 26, 2019. (Getty/)

Trump knows peacemaking is good in 2020 — do Democrats?

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Why Trump and Putin are only frenemies at this point

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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010, file photo Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, listens to questions during an answers and questions session in Kabul, Afghanistan. Holbrooke, a longtime U.S. diplomat who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan and served as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, has died. He was 69. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File) (AP)

Why Richard Holbrooke leaves no legacy for the 2020 Democrats

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President John F. Kennedy, next to Jacqueline Kennedy, waves from his car in a motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 (AP/Jim Altgens)

My FOIA crusade against a law-breaking CIA

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Cloak-and-dagger raid threatens to disrupt Trump-Kim nuclear talks

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Cory Booker; Elizabeth Warren; Joe Biden; Kirsten Gillibrand; Bernie Sanders (AP/Getty/Salon)

2020 Democrats face the “Blob” challenge

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, theFacebook's developer conference, May 1, 2018. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Facebook praises an Iranian cult known for killing U.S. citizens

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Daniel Coats, director of National Intelligence, testifies on Worldwide Threats during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 29, 2019. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Why Trump is going after Dan Coats, not Gina Haspel

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Robert Mueller (Getty/Alex Wong)

Who was the young Robert Mueller?

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A supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, wearing a red beret is flanked by member of the militia during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) (AP)

CIA in Venezuela: 7 rules for regime change

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