In 2017, Drug Enforcement Administration agents following the money from cocaine deals in Memphis, Tennessee, identified a mysterious figure in Mexico entrusted by drug lords with their millions: a Chinese American gangster named Xizhi Li. As the agents tracked Li's activity across the Americas and Asia, they realized he wasn't just another money launderer.

For decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family's deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company. Now, former President Donald Trump is calling attention to the top Republican's problematic China ties, while most of Washington remains silent.

Our country cannot function without a diligent free press that provides the American people with the access to information and education they need to hold their elected officials accountable. Indeed, to limit that ability is a far greater threat to national security than anything leaked by Chelsea Manning or published by Julian Assange.

This is an absolutely must-read article to understand the meaning of the phrase, "Deep State". America is being driven by unelected and unaccountable Technocrats clustered in private think-tanks that could not possibly exist in the public sector. All of it is unwittingly funded by taxpayers.

China is using a whole-of-society approach to steal its way to becoming a military power, and the U.S. government needs to better defend against such an espionage campaign, according to a retired CIA officer. "U.S. security officials estimate that the Chinese steal between $300 billion and $600 billion a year in U.S.

In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said.

A newly declassified ruling from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in June demonstrates that the government lied about its legal basis for spying on former Trump campaign official Carter Page. The ruling states that the information produced by the FBI's unlawful investigation into Page was illegally obtained and that it "found violations of the government's duty of candor in all four applications."