Rolling thread of espionage, spying, intelligence, & counter-intelligence (West, East, and Off The Map)

UAE also has a fairly extensive network of paid informants spying on their social and work groups. A large part of that is justified as countering the use of drugs rather than national security though.

has the US inter-agency "shadow war" begun?

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/819584819894030336

If DIA gets Trump's backing, the CIA and FBI will cultivate their allies in Congress as a countermeasure. To borrow an I Love Hoops meme, now THIS is gonna be fun!

to stop Haspel

“Gina Haspel dishonored our country and disgraced herself by participating in the CIA torture program and the destruction of criminal evidence,” said Wells Dixon of the Center on Constitutional Rights, who is playing a leading role in the emerging effort to block Haspel’s directorship. “We do not believe she should be director of the CIA. Rather, she should be in jail.”

Civil liberties groups tend not to win these sorts of congressional fights. But they see Haspel as so directly implicated in waterboarding, mock executions and the persistent physical and mental consequences of those acts that she might prove to be the exception.

“We absolutely think we can defeat her,” said Raha Wala of Human Rights First, another key figure in the coalition. “Never have we faced a nominee so directly and operationally linked to a widespread torture program by the CIA. This really is a historic nomination.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-should-be-in-jailrights-groups-rally-to-stop-torture-overseer-turned-trump-cia-pick-gina-haspel

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/europe/paul-whelan-russia-spy-guilty.html

Paul Whelan jailed for sixteen years.