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Former CIA Director John Brennan is shown wearing a suit and red tie departing from a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, May 2018.

Trump revokes ex-CIA chief’s security clearance, slamming critic

Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke his security clearance was part of an effort to silence critics.

When President Trump spoke at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia in January, he reportedly brought along his own staff to clap and cheer.

Trump tried to ice out the intelligence community from his effort to create a back channel to Russia

Global Politics
"Secrets, Politics and Torture" screen grab.

How the CIA helped make ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ — and shape the torture debate

Conflict
A polio worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child in Islamabad. Pakistan is also the only polio-endemic country in the world where polio cases rose from 2012 to 2013.

What’s stopping some Pakistani parents from letting their children be vaccinated?

Health & Medicine
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