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Jeff Stein
National Security Correspondent
Jeff Stein covers the spy agencies and foreign policy for Newsweek in Washington. His SpyTalk column originated in 2005 at Congressional Quarterly, where he was homeland security editor, and moved to the The Washington Post in 2010. Previously, he was deputy foreign editor at UPI. He is an investigative reporter of long standing, specializing in...
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Articles by Jeff Stein
World
New Donald Trump Sanctions Target the Shadowy Chinese Weapons Dealer in China-Iran Ballistic Missile Deals
“This is an initial shot of a well-thought-out, methodical campaign that we will wage against China,” said a Trump administration official.
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U.S.
Pete Buttigieg Explains How Serving in Afghanistan Helped His Rise to Improbable 2020 Presidential Contender
“Even for an exceptional country like us, it is not true as a matter of course that anything that appears to make America better off is the right thing to do,” the presidential candidate told Newsweek.
11 min read
U.S.
Pete Buttigieg Blasts Trump Administration’s Iran Rhetoric and Suggests Troops Could Be Used as ‘Props’
“It makes you wonder whether it’s being driven by a domestic political strategy. If so, that’s extremely upsetting,” Buttigieg told Newsweek.
3 min read
World
China Court Sentences American Citizen To Death On Drug Charges
Mark Swidan of Texas was framed on ‘flimsy’ meth ring charges, lawyer says
4 min read
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U.S.
‘Fear Is a Very Powerful Force’: How the White House Whistleblower Exposed a National Security Scandal
How Tricia Newbold found her voice and exposed serious security vulnerabilites unearthed in the FBI’s background investigations of more than two dozen Trump appointees.
9 min read
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SpyTalk
Where Is Robert Levinson? Inside the Secret Campaign to Find Ex-FBI Agent Who Disappeared on Mission to Iran
Saturday marks the 12th anniversary of Levinson’s disappearance. Private rescue groups say the U.S. government is thwarting efforts to bring him home
13 min read
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SpyTalk
CIA, FBI Traitors Should Be Lured Back With Promise of No Jail Time, Expert Says
The radical approach to turncoats has split the intelligence community. “Don’t think I didn’t know that people would choke on this,” says David Charney, a CIA-connected psychiatrist.
8 min read
U.S.
Michael Flynn, Top White House Officials Ignored Ethics Warnings to Push Saudi Nuclear Power Deal: Report
The committee’s interest in Michael Flynn’s involvement was sparked by a “Newsweek” story on the national security adviser.
8 min read
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World
Will Iran Be Trump’s Iraq?
Veteran Middle East hands worry that the president’s blunders and Iranian overreactions could lead to a shooting conflict nobody wants.
20 min read
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SpyTalk
Justice for America After Death of Long-Sought Al-Qaeda Militant
The killing of Jamal al-Badawi is little cause for celebration, veteran counterterrorism officials say.
8 min read
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U.S.
Donald Trump’s Mafia Connections: Decades Later, Is He Still Linked to the Mob?
Trump has been wrapped in Mafia connections for decades. Here’s how he learned to talk like a don.
14 min read
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Donald Trump’s Border Wall Government Shutdown Will Mean Some Immigrants Get to Stay in America Longer
“It’s important to note the irony of having immigration judges and courts go on furlough when it’s caused by a border issue.”
5 min read
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SpyTalk
Will Trump Resign If He’s Impeached or Indicted? Amid Mueller Probe, Some See Echoes of Nixon
If Richard Nixon’s final days are any guide, the system is in for a whole lot of shaking before Trump exits.
9 min read
SpyTalk
FBI Signs Interrogation Unit Contract With Firm Accused of Mistreating Separated Migrant Children
The Donald Trump administration has contracted with MVM to conduct classified research for a super-secret unit that coordinates the questioning of key captured terrorist suspects.
6 min read
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SpyTalk
Obama Banned Torture Years Ago but Its Replacement Is Still Brutal
Obama outlawed “enhanced interrogations” almost a decade ago. But experts said the Army and FBI had fought reforms.
11 min read
U.S.
Migrant Caravan: Military Has Seen No Evidence to Support 270 Criminals Figure Touted by White House, DHS
Both a current and former DHS official cast doubt on how the department came up with the figure while the caravan is still hundreds of miles away from the U.S. border.
9 min read
SpyTalk
Riddle Resolved: Who Dimed Out American Traitor and Super-Spy, Robert Hanssen?
A new book names the KGB defector who gave the FBI the Kremlin’s dossier on Robert Hanssen, the most dangerous mole in U.S. history.
5 min read
World
Jamal Khashoggi’s Death Highlights Ties Between a Connecticut College and Saudi Security
University of New Haven helps Saudi police college train a ‘next generation of security professionals.’
4 min read
SpyTalk
Mystery Memo Roils China-Linked Broadcom’s Bid for Sensitive U.S. Contracts
Rand Paul calls on Trump administration to halt sale of U.S. technology firm to Broadcom, which recently moved from Singapore to California.
8 min read
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SpyTalk
Donald Trump’s Desire to ‘Get the Hell Out’ of Afghanistan Amid Taliban Gains Could Lead to Catastrophe
A “devastating” new intelligence estimate on Afghanistan will give Trump cover to order a complete retreat, analysts fear.
18 min read
SpyTalk
McCain’s Death Creates a Foreign Policy Void
No other Congressional Republican has the stature to take on Trump over NATO and Russia, observers say.
6 min read
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