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Trump and Noem Suppress Information on Iranian Threat to Homeland Somewhere inside the federal government right now, there may well be analysts writing the modern equivalent of the “Bin Laden Determined to Strike” memo Julie Roginsky Mar 8 ∙ On August 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified intelligence briefing titled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA warned that al-Qaeda wanted to conduct attacks on American soil and noted suspicious activity consistent with preparations for hijackings. Thirty-six days later, nearly 3,000 Americans were dead on September 11. There have been endless debates about whether that warning was specific enough, whether the intelligence community connected the dots, and whether the White House acted aggressively enough in response. Those debates will probably never end. But it is indisputable both that the briefing existed and that other warnings about flight schools and extremist pilots went unheeded. A chilling possibility han...

World War III is Already Here The Iran War is just the newest theater in a four-year global conflict Julie Roginsky Mar 7 ∙ The mistake the West keeps making is assuming that wars arrive with formal declarations. That relic of the 20th century is long gone and has been since 1941. These days, they arrive piecemeal — a drone swarm here, a cyberattack there, a proxy militia somewhere else — until one day the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. That moment may already be behind us. A disturbing picture has emerged over the last four years: the war that began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was not a regional conflict. It was the opening salvo of a much larger global confrontation. Now that confrontation is spreading and the front line has moved to a new front. First it was Kyiv. Now it is Tehran, the Persian Gulf, and the Middle East. The players, however, are exactly the same. On one side: Russia, Iran, and a quietly supportive China. On the other: the United States and its i...

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  The Real Reason Epstein Was Untouchable Julie Roginsky Feb 4 ∙ Preview Our government seems to believe the American people are stupid when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Not naïve or confused —   stupid ,  as if we can’t put together basic timelines, read plea agreements, or notice when a serial sex trafficker keeps skating through consequences that would flatten anyone else. Let’s drop the fairy tale. Epstein was not spared from accountability for decades by accident. He was spared by choice. Prosecutors chose not to throw the book at him, officials chose not to explain how he grew so very rich, and administration after administration chose to let him keep trafficking underage girls. In asking us to accept this as standard operating procedure, our government is asking the public to accept something no jury ever would. So here is a radical idea: stop insulting us and tell the truth. There are only two explanations for what happened with Epstein, and neither of them is com...