National Security

President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

“It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency.”

U.S. forces attacked Caracas and multiple states in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter.

The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.

“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. We hit them very hard.”

Goldman was among a clutch of Democrats who voted for an NSA spy program, despite warnings about Trump’s return to power.

For years, I’ve shared names of former soldiers implicated in atrocities with the Pentagon. It’s shown no interest in punishment until Mark Kelly dissed Trump.

Trump cast the Nigeria strikes as an assault on those “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”

Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, The Intercept has learned.