US-Experten haben erst kürzlich darauf hingewiesen, dass manche Länder sich mit Verweis auf die militärische Nutzung des in Watts Bar hergestellten Tritiums tatsächlich weigern, TVA angereichertes Uran zu liefern.[10] URENCO teilt diese Einwände nicht. Im URENCO-Aufsichtsgremium, dem „Gemeinsamen Ausschuss“, ist die Bundesregierung vertreten. Über die Belieferung von Watts Bar mit von URENCO angereichertem Uran hat erst kürzlich das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium geäußert, es handle sich dabei um einen „Liefervorgang innerhalb der USA“, der „der Bundesregierung nicht bekannt“ sei

Die 2016 in Teilen veröffentlichten Dokumente über Briefkastenfirmen in Steueroasen zeigten ein weltweites Netzwerk an Geldwäschern und Steuerbetrügern.

Über die Kosten und näheren Umstände des Kaufs wollten Bundesinnenministerium sowie Bundeskriminalamt auf SPIEGEL-Anfrage keine Stellung nehmen.

It‘s been six years since Senator Ron Wyden first asked the Director of National Intelligence how many Americans‘ communications are being swept up „incidentally“ in the NSA‘s Section 702 surveillance net. Six years later, he still doesn‘t have an answer.

Section 702 is up for reauthorization at the end of the year and there‘s still no information coming from the ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence]. A group of Congressional reps is hoping to pry this info loose before the reauth, but the DNI‘s been able to hold Wyden off for six years, so…

Using identifying information that „HanA**holeSolo“ posted on Reddit, KFile was able to determine key biographical details, to find the man‘s name using a Facebook search and ultimately corroborate details he had made available on Reddit.

In a preliminary examination, ICC prosecutors identified what it called „potential cases“ among three groups of alleged perpetrators: the Taliban and its affiliates, the Afghan authorities and members of the U.S. armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency.

A formal investigation into whether crimes were committed by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan would hurt already tenuous relations between the ICC and the United States, which is not a member of the court and has in the past vehemently opposed it.

Macron on Wednesday appeared to try to refine his comments after speaking to Riad Hijab, head of the Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee, which represents a group of military and political opponents at U.N.-mediated talks between Syria‘s warring parties in Geneva.

(27.6.2017) Während eines Telefonats von Präsident Emmanuel Macron mit dessen US-Kollegen Donald Trump sei „die Notwendigkeit einer gemeinsamen Reaktion“ besprochen worden, erklärte Macrons Büro heute. Weitere Einzelheiten wurden nicht bekannt.

(24.6.2017) Der französische Präsident will eine andere Politik in Syrien. Dafür will er mehr mit Russland kooperieren

(25.6.2017) “It’s tough. You now have not only nation states trying to steal our stuff, but non-state, hostile intelligence services, well-funded — folks like WikiLeaks, out there trying to steal American secrets for the sole purpose of undermining the United States and democracy,” he said.

(21.3.2017) North Korea’s burgeoning nuclear weapons program poses more of a threat to world order than Iran, or any other terrorist group, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Tuesday.

“North Korea stands at the top of the priority list,” the defense minister said at a conference in Netanya held in memory of former Mossad chief Meir Dagan.

Even the most limited strike risks staggering casualties, because North Korea could retaliate with the thousands of artillery pieces it has positioned along its border with the South. Though the arsenal is of limited range and could be destroyed in days, the United States defense secretary, Jim Mattis, recently warned that if North Korea used it, it “would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people’s lifetimes.”
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Beyond that, there is no historical precedent for a military attack aimed at destroying a country’s nuclear arsenal.

(3.7.2017) The threat posed by North Korea was a key topic in phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of China and Japan, along with trade issues, the White House said on Sunday.

Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of expected meetings with the leaders of Asia‘s two biggest economies at a Group of 20 nations summit in Germany later this week.

US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows