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Hegseth’s legal fixer at the center of Pentagon’s new media restrictions Tim Parlatore represented Hegseth when he faced sexual assault allegations, and he also counts alleged mobsters and President Donald Trump as former clients.

'In a phone interview, Parlatore justified the new media restrictions as an essential step to shore up information security.'

Says lawyer for Hegseth who was on the Signal groupchat where US attack plans for Yemen were shared.

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Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks The Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing.

Exclusive: Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks wapo.st/4pO0OrJ

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

Hegseth has ordered US military's highest ranking officers from posts around world to a surprise meeting in Virginia next week - and won't tell them why. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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PROSECUTOR RESIGNS AFTER DECLINING TO CHARGE TRUMP FOES
PENTAGON DEMANDS JOURNALISTS PLEDGE NOT TO OBTAIN UNAUTHORIZED MTL
TED CRUZ SAYS FCC THREATS ABOUT KIMMEL ARE 'DANGEROUS'
JUDGE STRIKES DOWN TRUMP'S $15B SUIT AGAINST NYT
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Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

DEA faced pushback at White House, Pentagon after urging Mexico strikes The suggestion, though not acted upon, was met with alarm from officials who warned that Congress has not authorized such action.

Exclusive: The DEA advocated a series of military strikes in Mexico earlier this year before running into opposition at White House, Pentagon wapo.st/4ms2Xq9

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid as he pursued trade deal with China. wapo.st/4211Fv5

Today's Washington Post homepage -- chilling.

"Welcome to the UK, Donald" ad van showing Trump with Epstein

Screengrab of vid of police talking to the driver, and an officer apparently having got in the vehicle

Officer drives it away

More police by the van, after blocking off much of the road in Windsor

Via 'Everyone Hates Elon' campaign today: An advertising van displaying a photo of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been "confiscated by police after travelling around Windsor as the President stays with the King at Windsor Castle." (Latter pics are video stills - vid was too big)

America and Britain were pillars of the world order. The world has changed. President Trump will meet King Charles III and Prime Minister Keir Starmer on a state visit to Britain, against a backdrop of global division, disarray and destruction.

“I don’t think most people look at these leaders and say these are the right guys with their hands on the helm working together for the well-being of the world.” wapo.st/3VQsYER

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Redford, Bradlee, Bernstein and Woodward in the old WaPo newsroom. July 2012.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin ...

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

Boosted by summits in Alaska and China, Putin moves against Europe, Ukraine Russia has been emboldened in its strategy of splitting the U.S. from Europe while pushing ever harder to gain a military victory in Ukraine.

Since the Alaska “summit”’ Putin “has ramped up attacks on Ukraine, threatened to kill any future foreign forces in Ukraine, hit Western targets in Ukraine and unleashed a drone incursion into Poland.”

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‘My kid has seen this. Now what?’: Parents reel as Charlie Kirk video goes viral Gory social videos of Charlie Kirk’s shooting have inundated children, leaving parents feeling powerless and disturbed.

Uncensored graphic videos of the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk spread online before parents could talk to their children.

“I am heartbroken that she watched something I have protected myself from,” said one mother whose 15-year-old daughter watched it.

Bolsonaro found guilty in attempted coup, assassination plot Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled the former president tried to reverse his 2022 election loss with a plot that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case

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A video posted to social media and enhanced by The Washington Post shows a person running across a roof overlooking the courtyard at Utah Valley University where conservative activist Charlie Kirk had been fatally shot seconds earlier.
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FBI leaders allege in lawsuit they were unlawfully fired over political loyalty The former acting director alleges a Trump administration official asked a series of questions, including: “Who did you vote for?” “When did you start supporting President Trump?” and “Have you voted...

“Who did you vote for?”
“When did you start supporting President Trump?”
“Have you voted for a Democrat in the last five elections?
“Do you agree that the FBI agents who stormed Mar-a-Lago … should be held accountable?” wapo.st/45WJauc

Breaking news: 40 years after they concealed Iran-Contra evidence together, Oliver North married his former secretary, Fawn Hall.

The quiet Virginia wedding marks a new chapter in one of the 1980s' biggest political scandals. https://wapo.st/46ceGTX

Maybe the 'autopen' signed it...


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Maybe the 'autopen' signed it...


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Russia bombs Ukraine almost every night. This is what it sounds like. This summer the Kremlin’s air campaign killed 518 civilians with a record 11,739 drones and 433 missiles, an analysis by The Washington Post found.

Russia bombs Ukraine almost every night. This is what it sounds like. wapo.st/4gankGV

Trump’s BLS nominee discussed controversial theory on gender IQ with interns Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antoni, discussed a controversial scientific theory on gender IQ differences with Heritage interns.

Trump’s BLS nominee has thoughts about gender and intelligence:
Women’s IQs generally clustered around average scores, while men’s IQs varied more between “geniuses” and low-intelligence individuals, he told interns at Heritage Foundation. wapo.st/4mBXOge

Opinion | America has gone from promoting democracy abroad to undermining it As foreign leaders are finding, Trump’s noninterference foreign policy is purely situational.

Trump’s hands-off approach to other nations’ affairs seems to apply only when it comes to promoting democracy or human rights; encouraging right-wing populism or even authoritarianism is another matter. His administration is turning longstanding US foreign policy on its head. wapo.st/4nahJCH

Trump, Gabbard fired top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit Days after the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump ordered the security clearance revocation of a top CIA official and Russia expert.

One week you're running CIA Russia House and prepping Team Trump for Putin summit.
The next your career is over because...Laura Loomer said so?
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The CIA's top Russia expert spent days preparing Trump's team for Alaska summit with PUtin.
Days later the officer was summoned to security and stripped of security clearance with no explanation.

Trump, Gabbard fired top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit Days after the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump ordered the security clearance revocation of a top CIA official and Russia expert.

Trump, Gabbard fired top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit wapo.st/3JVtsXq

Denmark summons U.S. diplomat after report of influence campaign in Greenland Denmark’s foreign minister said, “Any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom will of course be unacceptable,” after the report on Greenland.

Denmark summons U.S. diplomat after report of influence campaign in Greenland wapo.st/4fVOYY0

How Putin, ex-KGB officer, will seek to sway Trump at Alaska summit European officials are nervous that in this one-on-one meeting, Putin will once again succeed in flattering Trump and flip the narrative away from Russia’s invasion.

Instead of the sanctions Trump threatened, Putin got a summit.


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