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10 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Yes, If You Ignore Funding, RSN Will Tank - You can be 100% certain that 30,000 people reading and 30 donating (every day) is a formula that will absolutely fail. Again, what we strive for is “reasonable” community participation. In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: What Sy Hersh Knows  Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine Excerpt: "Cheney would go off on the 1917 Balfour declaration. He knows a lot and he’s a reader, and he ain’t dumb and he’s got a great memory. They caused irreparable damage." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

05 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News FOCUS | Seymour Hersh: The CIA Is Filled With Criminals    Elon Green, Columbia Journalism Review   Green writes: "When a reporter has covered 50 years of American foreign policy disasters, the last  great untold story may be his own."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

10 February 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News SO FAR TODAY, "5" DONATIONS, TOTAL - 22 Readers stepped up yesterday. Almost all made very small donations. Today is starting out much worse. It's early but so far we have 2 donations totaling $30. We'll get 30,000 readers today. Will we get 50 donors? Throw something in the hat. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: James Risen | US Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents and Trump-Related Material    James Risen, The Intercept   Risen writes: "The US intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents from Russian operatives, according to sources familiar with the matter. The operation has also inadvertently yielded a cache of documents purporting to relate to Donald Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election."   READ...

03 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News FOCUS: James Risen | My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror    James Risen, The Intercept   Risen writes: "My case was part of a broader crackdown on reporters and whistleblowers that had begun during the presidency of George W. Bush and continued far more aggressively under the Obama administration, which had already prosecuted more leak cases than all previous administrations combined."   READ MORE My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror  was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven years. The Obama administration was demanding that I reveal the confidential sources I had relied on for a chapter about a botched CIA operation in my 2006 book, “State of War.”...