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Riley is presented as a decorated Iraq War veteran.
Sasha (also spelled Sascha) Riley is the name attached to a series of audio recordings that surfaced online in mid‑2025 in which a man claims to be a survivor of childhood trafficking tied to Jeffrey ...
To corroborate the viral Sasha (Sascha) Riley audio allegations would require concrete, publicly available records and verifiable witness testimony that go beyond the unverified phone interviews curre...
A U.S. military attack on Canada would expose NATO’s legal ambiguities and political fractures: the treaty’s collective-defence language obliges allies to assist an attacked member, but NATO has littl...
is the author behind the newsletter “Outlaws of Chivalry” who published six audio files she says are phone interviews with a man identified as ; those files were posted on her Substack and circulated ...
Sascha Riley is a U.S. military veteran whose recorded testimony alleging childhood abuse and trafficking has circulated widely online, naming high-profile figures and describing an organized traffick...
A single military discharge document — a DD Form 214 — has been circulated to at least one fact-checker and was provided by the person posting the audio tapes, which is the primary public item reporte...
i Kurds achieved self-rule through a long mix of armed uprisings led by local parties, episodic negotiations with , and crucial international intervention after the that produced a Western-enforced no...
is the name attached to a series of viral audio recordings in which a man describes being trafficked as a child and links that abuse to while naming high-profile figures; the tapes were published on a...
Reporting so far shows audio attributed to Sascha (or Sasha/Sascha) Riley circulating online and claiming a background as an Iraq War veteran and a survivor of childhood trafficking, but news outlets ...
published a long post in late 2025 that released six unredacted audio recordings of interviews she says she conducted with a man identified as William “Sascha” (or Sascha Barrows) Riley and framed him...
for a mix of strategic, political, institutional and psychological reasons: to secure public support for controversial policies, protect perceived national-security interests, and avoid political acco...
’s deployments to and combined frontline infantry leadership and civil-military engagement in Iraq with training and instruction in Afghanistan, roles described in military evaluations and multiple bi...
administrations have long relied on a mix of executive sanctions, legal tools tied to U.S. correspondent banking relationships, and multilateral cooperation to freeze — and occasionally transfer — for...
American presidents across eras have used deception as a policy tool — from George Washington’s private evasions through the Vietnam, Watergate and post‑9/11 eras to the Trump administration’s prolifi...
The Obama administration primarily invoked the post‑9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 and the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force concerning Iraq to justify strikes against...
President Obama relied principally on two congressional authorizations when explaining legal justifications for airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and for some strikes extending into Syria: the 2001 Auth...