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European Officials Threaten To End Intel-Sharing With US: "Could Be Risk For Our Sources"

European Officials Threaten To End Intel-Sharing With US: "Could Be Risk For Our Sources"

With the US mainstream media in manic finger-pointing speculation mode over President Trump's discussions with Russian foreign minister Lavrov, a senior European intelligence official tells AP that his country might stop sharing information with the United States if it confirms President Donald Trump shared classified details with Russian officials.

 

Israel Minister: "The Time Has Come To Assassinate Bashar Assad"

Israel Minister: "The Time Has Come To Assassinate Bashar Assad"

Israel's Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant called for the assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad following yesterday's US State Department report that the Syrian regime was using a prison crematorium to hide mass killings outside Damascus, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Speaking at a conference outside Jerusalem, Galant, a retired Israeli Defence Forces general, said that in light of recent allegations that Assad’s regime carried out mass executions and burned the bodies of the victims, he had to be killed.

Sally Yates' Revenge: Mike Flynn Conduct May Have Breached "Criminal Statute"

After giving hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 8th (which we covered here), Sally Yates sat down for another round of interviews with CNN's Anderson Cooper to answer all the same questions about Michael Flynn's dismissal all over again.  The full interview is set to air tonight at 8pm EST on CNN but a teaser clip has been released for our early digestion.

Perhaps the most provocative part of the teaser comes at the 0:24 mark when Cooper asks whether Flynn's underlying conduct was "illegal."  To which Yates responded:

Does Bush Have Afterthoughts?

Does Bush Have Afterthoughts?

Paul Craig Roberts

Recently I learned from a feature article in a print magazine that George W. Bush, as Jimmy Carter and Winston Churchill did, has taken up painting. Among Bush’s subjects are 98 war veterans from Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who suffered traumatic injuries. Some of the portraits were reproduced in the magazine, and they are good. Three months ago 98 portraits were published in a coffee table book, Portraits of Courage, the proceeds from which are donated to the Bush Center.

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