Empire Politician: A Half-Century of Joe Biden's Stances on War, Militarism, and the CIA

Never in U.S. history has the country had a president with the voluminous paper trail that followed Joe Biden into the White House. Since the Vietnam War, Biden has been in public office for all but four of the past 49 years. He has cast thousands of votes, sponsored or co-sponsored hundreds of bills, and taken public positions on virtually every possible foreign and domestic policy issue. He has served long enough to make it possible to chart, in great detail, the evolution of his positions on a range of issues, to analyze his contradictions, and to draw conclusions about how he sees the role of Congress and the executive branch on the most sensitive and consequential decisions made by the government: decisions about war and organized state violence.
The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill analyzes Biden's political career, with a focus on his positions on U.S. wars and military campaigns, CIA covert actions, and abuses of power; his views on whistleblowers and leakers; and his shifting stance on the often contentious relationship between the executive and legislative branches over war powers.
Read the full timeline of Biden's half-century of stances on war, militarism and the CIA: empirepolitician.theintercept....

[@bjnowak]

I don’t care what the political party they are I want the truth. Jeremy you are the last truth seeker left at the intercept. Thank you

[@TokenBlackman7]

On behalf of all Delawareans, I'd like to apologize to the world for Joe "MBNA" Biden... 'Cause, Lord knows, he's not going to apologize for himself.

[@Mooxieart]

I first saw the preview image as John McCain and now I cannot unsee.

[@notadane]

Same here.

[@e.l.952]

Shame everyone slept on Intercepted. This is giving me classic Intercepted feels

[@adampeach3843]

Too bad they suppressed it for months, specifically for the purpose of "not aiding Donald trump" and waited until now to release it. And then went on to try to shame Glenn Greenwald over it when he announced publicly why he left and called them out for being shills for the dems

[@Revel136]

@@adampeach3843 That's how the Cabal manipulates both sides. Put an asshole bs artist like Trump.and the left will vote for anyone to get him out. Even a Biden who was a known plagiarizing con man from day 1. He is trying to right the ship, but its too late America is over, about 5 years and we will be a different country. The end comes when the 911 putsch is revealed through leaks against the empire.

[@Fernando-nz3gm]

The Intercept has published videos on and before the election. Just look them up

[@furtwangler8137]

​@@Revel136 You lost me at Biden is trying to right the ship. Don't worry, America First (and the truth) is coming assuming you're not in the ignorance vortex. It's almost a blessing the Cabal (and shady election officials) pulled a fast one. They jumped the shark. It woke a lot of people up to see these institutions for what they are... The 911 ship has come and gone. In another 30 years, they'll just accept the official story as lies without every having done anything about it.

[@Revel136]

@@furtwangler8137 your on drugs or a traitor. Like Trump

[@jaredspaulding9977]

I hope this is the type of journalism we can expect from Jeremy moving forward. Miss you brother ...

[@jackcslewis2009]

I would have thought this sort of journalism might be more useful PRIOR to the election. I'm actually embarrassed for him. What is he still doing at the intercept?

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

very much missed💕

[@aiden359]

@@jackcslewis2009 true. The intercept probably would have blocked the release of this video during the general election like they did to Greenwald.

[@jaredspaulding9977]

@@jackcslewis2009 I share your frustration that it took this long for this type of reporting to come out from Jeremy. Im sure it would be hard to walk away from the business he built ... He and Glenn built that brand from nothing. Let’s just hope the old Jeremy we saw in this report is the new Intercept.

[@kiwikemist]

​@@aiden359Greenwald is a liar and a charlatan

[@Pharoacious]

Thanks for more great reporting.

[@johnsonben8503]

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[@gavinlarnard948]

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[@gerrysanchez1223]

I wanted to trade Crypto but confused by the fluctuations in price

[@digitaiassetinestr3266]

I heard that his strategies are really good

[@justinscott7873]

"you cant compromise with dead squads"... "hold my beer" -Biden

[@Rubylove48]

Was starting to lose hope re the intercept. Good piece here. please redeem yourselves and recommit to truth telling.

[@geraldking4080]

"The only thing that has changed, in my opinion, is that now we can hide another Great Depression. We may already be hiding a third world war." -Kurt Vonnegut

[@Abby-hi4sf]

Thank you Jermy

[@jamesmurphy2828]

The Perfect Machiavellian Politician

[@PeterPetrakis]

...and you voted for him anyway.

[@Eyesonscreenstudio]

The only legitimate justification to have is that it was a brain fart.

[@fellowcitizen]

Why not broadcast this during the election?

[@felixmonroe2295]

More Scahill please! I love all the young and new writers but I hardly ever see Scahill anymore, I'd love to see him take a more active role in content

[@tommystrange]

a year too late. And we know why. Gawd.

[@bachateroforju]

Now it’s safe to come out with this, eh? 😂. Jeremy just leave the Intercept, you’re better than that.

[@tsundoku5733]

Do you mean you didn't know any of this before the 2020 election? kzbin.info?search_query=biden+war+record

[@DKP3000]

Thanks for all the work on this. Could you guys have done this before the election? It might have not changed anything, but still slim chance it could have. (Edit: I meant early in primaries)

[@willemvanrees4015]

So we could've had Sanders or Warren? Slim chance that the establishment with pockets in this channel would want that.

[@bjnowak]

More DURING THE PRIMARIES. The intercept wanted Trump out just like every left news source.

[@veitdalee4810]

@@bjnowak good.

[@caam0000]

​@@willemvanrees4015a genuine question: why do you see the channel as founded by the establishment?

[@oldfan1963]

"You don't compromise with death squads."

[@78deathface]

Once a ghoul, always a ghoul

[@halakurshov1380]

Chilling.

[@stevena.7022]

This Jeremy Scahill guy needs to leave the intercept for his own good.

[@ahmetbakisenayl3950]

I wish I had watched this as it was uploaded. Great reporting !!

[@Pleasure_Baron]

I thought The Intercept didn't say bad things about Biden? Happy to see the objective reporting again.

[@GiantSandles]

They said plenty during the election lol just because they didn’t publish unsubstantiated allegations that even the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal wouldn’t publish as a straight news column because there was no basis for it doesn’t mean they were in Biden’s pocket

[@bjnowak]

Jeremy is the only one left. And he hates war.

[@ar2042]

What? Some BS about Hunter Biden's emails? When did running conspiracy theories become the requirement for "objective" reporting?

[@sunshinehoward9649]

they are spying with hacked data on citizens they deem extremists. pretty sure that isn't objective.

[@TesterBoy]

@@GiantSandles total bullshit. They were part of the campaign to censor Glen Greenwald for wanting to cover the Biden Hunter emails.

[@mtvernonpeacekeepers]

Where was this video BEFORE the presidential election? Intercept, you're shaky in the integrity dept.

[@jillzy1182]

It’s far easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.

[@debraperez7171]

Haven't seen Jeremy in quite some time. Am I missing his content?

[@stanleykania7184]

Noam chomsky tells you how the world works.

[@bigdaz7272]

Actual Great reporting coming out the Intercept? Since Glenn left its been like MSNBC lol

[@PawelKOtrebski]

Yeah now we can show the true face of Biden... Jeremy leave the intercept because we miss your journalism. The Intercept should be called the The Deceptive

[@hallabolt4156]

We need to see a year by year comparison about Joe Biden stands on Israel

[@historychannelr5703]

WHO LET COVID 19 OUT? Ever think about doing a piece or 2 on the MFs who let COVID out of the Labs? So far as I know there has been no criminal investigation on owners / employees of the Labs. Something similar to The Nuremberg trials.. where the leadership of those laboratories , who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in experimental viruses are held accountable.

[@paramsharma6918]

👍👍

[@ruslankbr5243]

I was always impressed by false smiles of US presidents is it acquired skill?

[@shobhitsniper4979]

😂

[@45206639]

sound exciting

[@ariellecurtin]

Good look back. Jeremy brings the Biden receipts.

[@sladetuner8661]

Not a dimes worth of differnce-George Wallace August 25 1919-September 13 1998 Governer of and first gentleman of Alabama

[@heatherdeladurantaye3121]

BRAVO 👏 #StopGivingPredatorsPower

[@sladetuner8661]

2 words-Flip-Flooper

[@PaulWMahon]

#draintheswamp #stopstupidity #maga

[@rayhensel3697]

Best news source

[@marlbankian]

Excellent description of Biden.

[@muskduh]

Joke! Bye!! Done!!!

[@hsingkao2024]

It seems Taiwan is not safe.

[@Claudia-7777]

The snakes making this report now are just as bad as the snakes in the house..

[@pacajalbert9018]

Oby dva strany nevyhovujú môj otec musel byť Genius keď povedal nevolil proti sebe nikoho alebo proti druhým nikoho po vojne 1945

[@cindygr8ce]

I guess the only thing I can say to this is I hope we don't get into another war and shit at least he isn't Trump

[@Willie5000]

Biden is so slow to rejoin the JCPOA that he could indeed be trying to bring us into a war with Iran.

[@sunshinehoward9649]

1. Trump kept us from war Peace through Strength 2. Biden loves war and according to China "The US is not in a position of strength to do anything" translation the US is weak now. so hope in one hand and take your unicorn glasses off. it will happen and it will happen under biden. save this comment and reference it when it happens.

[@cindygr8ce]

@@sunshinehoward9649 🤣🤣🤣keep drinking that kool aid

[@sunshinehoward9649]

@@cindygr8ce 😘😘 and you are welcome to the truth sweetie it hurts but you won't die because of it. 😁😘

[@arobertpetersen]

For what you did to your founder, unsub!

[@TC-lj5qu]

What’s the purpose of this video?

[@UCauRTgzykUGhYLWZxgQ]

Moral posturing

[@TC-lj5qu]

@Anonymous Anonymous Glen Greenwald quit the intercept because they won’t let him publish the Hunter Biden Ukraine scandal just before the election but why this video released now that the election is over.

[@adampeach3843]

The fact you released something like this now after all the Greenwald drama is hilarious. Not even gonna watch anything from this trash publication anymore

[@kiwikemist]

Greenwald is a liar in bed with the establishment

[@hisbigal]

I keep asking why Scahill is still at The Intercept, after it ousted Greenwald. It’s gone from good to schizophrenic, when people like Risen and Klein are still there pushing mainstream narratives. Scahill needs to goes elsewhere where he can be appreciated.

[@paulohara4153]

Glenn has turned into a far right lunatic bud. Not sure what's wrong with him but he's full blown Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson are the real left/socialists.

[@sunshinehoward9649]

@@paulohara4153 Because reporting on Biden is crime. We get it. too bad though you would have to kill off everybody in the world not see what you folks did during the election. hiding info? censoring info? sure people are far right because they ask questions. now go graze with the mob way over there. The media will soon call you home.

[@IHLWonk]

None of the content in this video, nor articles, stands up to any basic factual or legal scrutiny. Do better.

[@peterstafford4426]

Pure garbage from The Intercept.