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Aug 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
A former Saudi official close to the CIA alleges in a new lawsuit that Mohammed bin Salman tried to have him killed in Canada, in a plot that bears striking similarities to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is… by @hsu_spencer and me
Aljabri asserts the MBS pressured him to return to Saudi Arabia, sent agents to the US to locate Aljabri, had malware implanted on his phone, and when Aljabri was ultimately located in Canada, sent a “hit squad” to kill him, the lawsuit asserts.
The alleged Saudi hit team was stopped by Canadian customs officials, who, in a grisly echo of the Khashoggi case, were found carrying forensic tools that could have been used to dismember a corpse, Aljabri alleges.
You can read Saad Aljabri's lawsuit here. washingtonpost.com/context/lawsui…
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Dec 8
I've waited nearly ten years to tell this story: In 2016, I developed a source in Iranian intelligence named Mohammad Hossein Tajik. He told me he came from a politically connected family. That he had led Iran's cyber army. And that he had secretly worked for the CIA. 🧵
Mohammad wanted to get back at his enemies in the regime, by leaking their secrets to me. And he wanted to rekindle his relationship with the CIA, which had not ended on good terms. He was angry. He was determined. And he was desperate.

theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
He told me about covert cyber operations and the inner workings of Iranian espionage. Some of his claims were astounding. But he also told me about his favorite movies, his personal life, his hopes and his fears. He kept secrets too, and it took me years to unravel them.
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Jun 6, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline, months before the bombing. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… By me and @smekhennet
Some of the key findings of our reporting:

In June 2022, a European intelligence service passed the CIA detailed reporting about a plan by Ukraine's special operations forces to sabotage Nord Stream. The source was an individual in Ukraine.
The information was specific: 6 special ops personnel would rent a boat, and, suing a submersible vehicle and deep-water diving equipment, damage or destroy the pipeline and leave undetected.
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May 13, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Alleged leaker Jack Teixeira fixated on guns and envisioned ‘race war’ washingtonpost.com/national-secur… Videos and chat logs reveal preparations for a violent social conflict, his racist thinking and a deep suspicion of the gov't he served. By me, @samueloakford, and @chrisd9r
In a lengthy interview, a close personal friend of Teixeira said he wanted to "shoot up" his high school and praised mass killings such as the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, which left 51 people dead. (Video by @JonGerberg and @ntabrizy.)
Teixeira shared hundreds of classified documents with his young admirers to reveal secret knowledge he believed the government had hidden from ordinary people. “He had quite a few conspiratorial beliefs,” a close friend said, including "how the government kills their own people."
Read 9 tweets
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Dec 1, 2022
NEW: The Iranian government has stepped up its efforts to kidnap and kill government officials, activists, and journalists in the U.S. and around the world. Officials now fear a direct confrontation with Tehran. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/… By me, @smekhennet, and @yjtorbati.
We spoke to targets of Iran's plots, who've been warned to limit their travel and have suffered relentless harassment from Tehran. Our story is the result of months of reporting, interviews with more than a dozen government officials, and access to previously unreported documents
The Iranian plotting has reached a fever pitch in the U.K., which recently submitted a "blue notice" to Interpol alleging a suspected member of the Quds Force had helped to arrange attempted “lethal operations against Iranian dissidents in the U.K. in 2020.”
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Aug 16, 2022
Months of reporting. More than three dozen interviews with senior U.S., Ukrainian, European and NATO officials. Here's our account of the road to war in Ukraine. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… W/ @karendeyoung1, @ikhurshudyan, @AshleyRParker, and @LizSly
Some of the key takeaways of our reporting:

1.) Last year, the United States intelligence community penetrated multiple points of Russia’s political leadership, spying apparatus and military, and found Vladimir Putin preparing for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
2.) Every decision on arming Ukraine was predicated on not giving Russia a reason to attack the United States and NATO.
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Aug 12, 2022
Well before the FBI searched Trump's home for classified information concerning nuclear weapons, officials worried that as an ex-president Trump could pose a unique national security risk. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Experts then said Trump checks the boxes of a classic counterintelligence risk: He is deeply in debt and angry at the U.S. government, particularly the “deep state” conspiracy he claimed tried to stop him from winning the White House in 2016 and robbed him of reelection.
Experts raised those fears before we understood the lengths Trump and his allies would go to attempt to overturn the 2020 election. “Anyone who is disgruntled, dissatisfied or aggrieved is a risk of disclosing classified information," @DavidPriess noted.
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