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CIA staff made a 'suicide pact' to resign if Trump fired director Gina Haspel, former aide says
Trump wanted to replace Haspel with vocal supporter Kash Patel, former White House comms director A…
George Glover
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Sidney Powell tried to get the DOD to 'rescue' the CIA director, citing a QAnon conspiracy theory that claimed she was captured in Germany, book says
Powell believed then-CIA Director Gina Haspel was hurt and captured during a mission to steal a com…
Bill Bostock
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Then-CIA director Gina Haspel said the US was 'on the way to a right-wing coup' after Trump lost the election: book
Haspel reportedly told Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the US was…
Sonam Sheth
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The CIA is restricting the intelligence on Russia that reaches Trump and the White House, report says
Former officials told Politico that they think information is being restricted because Trump explod…
Tom Porter
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Then-CIA Director Gina Haspel said Trump's post-election behavior was 'insanity' and he was 'acting out like a 6-year-old with a tantrum,' book says
"Yesterday was appalling," Haspel told the US's top general, Mark Milley, after Trump fired Defense…
Grace Panetta
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John McCain calls on Senate to reject Gina Haspel's CIA nomination
"I have found Gina Haspel to be a person of great character," Machin reportedly said in a statement…
David Choi
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US senators furious with Saudi Arabia after classified briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel
"I'll simply say that I am now more convinced than I was before - and I was pretty convinced - that…
Joe Perticone
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Trump accused of 'cover-up' after reportedly barring CIA director Gina Haspel from briefing Senate on Khashoggi killing
Jeff Prescott, who served as special assistant to the president and senior director for Iran, Iraq,…
John Haltiwanger,Sonam Sheth
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CIA director Haspel reportedly heard the audio of Khashoggi's murder in Saudi Arabia's consulate
Trump on Tuesday described Khashoggi's killing as "one of the worst in the history of cover-ups," a…
Alexandra Ma
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GOP Rep. Scott Perry claimed 'the Brits' were manipulating the 2020 election results and asked Mark Meadows to 'immediately seize' Dominion voting machines
Rep. Scott Perry said Trump's CIA director was "covering for the Brits" in a text to Mark Meadows f…
Bryan Metzger
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Bob Woodward says he plans to release a new audiobook with '9 hours of Trump interviews' that 'we have never heard before'
Woodward said the unpublished interviews include "an amazing portrait of a man" who has an "absence…
Bryan Metzger
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Trump declared he could 'declassify anything' when officials tried to stop him tweeting a top-secret intel briefing in 2019, report says
During his presidency, Trump didn't fully understand the risks of revealing classified information,…
Sophia Ankel
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Biden's pick for US spy chief played a central role in Obama's secretive drone war that resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths
Some progressives have accused Haines of complicity in the CIA's use of torture after 9/11. A criti…
John Haltiwanger
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Bill Barr told Trump his voter fraud claims after the election were 'bullshit': book
Attorney General Barr was one of several top officials who expressed deep alarm over Trump's errati…
Sonam Sheth
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Adam Schiff worried he sabotaged one of Trump's cabinet picks by praising him to the former president: book
"Oh my God...have I just killed his nomination?" Schiff says he wondered after telling Trump he adm…
Grace Panetta
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McConnell told Biden not to call Trump after the election, worrying it would send the president into a fury: book
McConnell communicated through two senators to prevent Biden from calling Trump after the 2020 elec…
John Haltiwanger
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Trump says top US general should be 'tried for treason' for intervening to prevent a war with China
Trump called Milley "one of the dumber generals in the military" and has repeatedly said he should …
Sonam Sheth
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The Taliban says it will honor promises made during peace talks with the US, but the CIA isn't buying it
In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, CIA Director Gina Haspel was aske…
Caitlin Foster
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Trump admin defended its torture-linked CIA nominee as just 'tough on terror' and a strong woman
"My highly respected nominee for CIA Director, Gina Haspel, has come under fire because she was too…
Alex Lockie
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How the White House is pushing through one of the most controversial nominees in recent history
Haspel's nomination has drawn extensive scrutiny because of her work at the CIA as it relates to th…