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Tim Shorrock

Tim Shorrock is the author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. You can follow his frequent postings on Twitter at @TimothyS

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Cops of the Pacific? U.S. military’s role in Asia during the age of Donald Trump

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Northrop Grumman test pilots prepare to taxi the Navy X-47B drone, to be launched off the USS George H. W. Bush. (AP/Steve Helber)

Who profits from our new war? Inside NSA and private contractors’ secret plans

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A U.S. soldier stands at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul February 10, 2014. A car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul killed two United States contractors for the international security force ISAF on Monday, the NATO-led force and a U.S. official said. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)

Exclusive: New document details America’s war machine — and secret mass of contractors in Afghanistan

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Meet the contractors analyzing your private data

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with NBC's Michael Leiter, when the latter served as National Counterterrorism Director, Oct. 6, 2009. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

NBC terrorism analysts need more transparency

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North Korean army officers at a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin) (Jon Chol Jin)

North Korea: What’s really happening

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Exposing Bush’s historic abuse of power

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Former high-ranking Bush officials enjoy war profits

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Blacklisted by the Bush government

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Hurricane recovery, Republican-style

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America under surveillance

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The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence

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George Tenet cashes in on Iraq

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The spy who came in from the boardroom

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