Author Archive: Jefferson Morley

Jefferson Morley is a writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of the Deep State, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He has been a reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., since 1980. He spent 15 years as an editor and reporter at the Washington Post. He was a staff writer at Arms Control Today and Washington editor of Salon. He is the editor and co-founder of JFK Facts, a blog about the assassination of JFK. His latest book is The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster, James Jesus Angleton.
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A Lawless President Confronts an Untrustworthy Intelligence Community

Released for Syndication: 05/01/2020

“There is no ‘deep state’—not in the conspiratorial way that Donald Trump uses the term,” writes David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, in...

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Three Questions for Investigators of Trump’s Response to COVID-19

Released for Syndication: 04/03/2020

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, President George Bush stoutly resisted the creation of a commission to investigate how the hijackers were able...

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Could the Death of the National Security State Be a Silver Lining of COVID-19?

Released for Syndication: 03/26/2020

Could something good come from the catastrophe of COVID-19? Might the epic insecurity of a plague teach us something about national security? Political scientist...

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Exposing a Biden Staffer’s Connections to Troubled Israeli Spyware Firm

Released for Syndication: 03/17/2020

After Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Anita Dunn, senior adviser to Joe Biden’s campaign, defended the vice president’s performance in a briefing with reporters....

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How the U.S. Intelligence Community Is Intervening in the 2020 Election

Released for Syndication: 02/25/2020

President Trump’s ongoing purge of the intelligence community, along with Bernie Sanders’ surge in the Democratic presidential race, has triggered an unprecedented intervention of...

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How the Question of Who Killed JFK Resurfaced in an Unexpected Way on the Campaign Trail

Released for Syndication: 02/19/2020

On Monday night in Fairfax, Virginia, Donald Jeffries, author and talk radio host, asked Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard about a book she was...

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How the Democrats Undermined Their Case for Impeachment by Dragging National Security into Their Case

Released for Syndication: 01/29/2020

In the summer of 2016, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t agree about much, except for one obscure issue of...

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In Death and in Life, Soleimani Succeeded in Weakening America’s Presence the Middle East

Released for Syndication: 01/07/2020

If you study the military record of the late General Qassem Soleimani, you’ll see why U.S. military and political leaders feared his prowess, yet...

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After Israel Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger

Released for Syndication: 01/06/2020

Last October Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad, spoke openly about assassinating Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force in...

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There’s One Area Where Trump and the Deep State Are in Lockstep: Torture

Released for Syndication: 12/13/2019

It’s a paradox of impeachment politics. As President Trump faces charges of high crimes and misdemeanors in Congress, he denounces the alleged “deep state”...

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