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Newer News: October 2020

September 2020

• Trump is a Big Fat Spy Target by Jeff Stein, SpyTalk, September 29. "It hardly needs saying that senior U.S. intelligence veterans are as alarmed about Trump's debts as our adversaries and their spymasters are overjoyed."
• White House interfered with prepublication review of Bolton book, reviewer says, letter to the court from attorneys for NSC reviewer Ellen Knight, September 22. "As a career professional in the field of classified information management, Ms. Knight is very concerned about the politicization -- or even the perceived politicization -- of the prepublication review process."
• Air Force, SpaceX mum about sky-high rocket costs by John M. Donnelly, Roll Call, September 23. "On today's rocket program, the spy satellite mission is classified but the contract is not. Yet the Air Force effectively said, in response to a query, that even the basic outlines of scores of millions of dollars in spending is not public information."
• Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters' Phones in Portland by Ken Klippenstein, The Nation, September 21. "Homeland Security has not yet come clean to the public about the full extent of its intelligence operations in Portland."
• White Supremacists Are a Threat to Elections, Says the DHS by Ken Klippenstein, The Nation, September 18. "While the Trump administration publicly downplays the rise of the far right, Homeland Security anticipates 'physical threats' to the 2020 election."
• DNI Ratcliffe certifies that all controlled access programs are valid and justified, letter to Congress, September 8. "In response to the annual requirement, I certify, to the best of my knowledge, that all Intelligence Community Controllcd Access Programs are substantiated and justified based on information specified in the statute."

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Updated September 29, 2020