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Newer News: August 2021

July 2021

• CIA drove spike in media leak investigations under Trump by Jason Paladino, Nick Schwellenbach, and Ken Klippenstein, The Intercept, July 29. "Records released by the Department of Justice provide new details about Trump's campaign against whistleblowers and leakers."
• Rep. Castro introduces bipartisan bill creating new research center on China, news release, July 28. "OTAC would be charged with translating into English important open source foreign-language material from the People's Republic of China, Russia, and other countries of strategic interest. The translated material would be available on a public website, serving as a key resource for the U.S. and allied governments, media outlets, and academics and analysts around the world."
• Our Secrecy Paradox by Jack Goldsmith, The Paradox, July 15. "The government can't stop intelligence leaks, but it stifles our national debate by preventing the publication of unclassified information."
• House Approps Committee directs declassification review of significant FISA Court opinions, report on FY2022 DoD Approps bill, July 15.
• Making Up My Mind, and Then Changing It by Steven Aftergood, Essay Series on Learning the Scholar's Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars, H-DIPLO, July 13. "I think scholars today have their own special role to play in preserving an open society by carefully marshaling evidence in support of a knowable reality, by upholding the canons of argument, and by insisting on the possibility of 'changing one's mind'."
• Priscilla McMillan, Who Knew Both Kennedy and Oswald, Dies at 92 by Sam Roberts, New York Times, July 13. "A Cold War scholar, she met Oswald four years before Kennedy's assassination and later wrote 'Marina and Lee,' a book about him and his Russian wife."
• Priscilla Johnson McMillan, historian who knew both JFK and Oswald, dies at 92 by Harrison Smith, Washington Post, July 9. "Mrs. McMillan went on to an accomplished career as a historian of the Cold War and U.S. nuclear weapons policy."
• Pentagon warned of growing risk of nuclear war in 2020 report by Samuel Chamberlain, New York Post, July 8. "The possibility that nuclear weapons will be used in a regional or global conflict has increased over the past decade, according to a newly released report from the Pentagon."
• Pentagon Warns Of An "Increased Potential" For Nuclear Conflict In Newly Disclosed Manual by Brett Tingley, The Drive: The War Zone, July 7. "The risk of regional conflicts between nuclear-armed nations is rising according to a document prepared by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."

Older News: June 2021

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