By John R. Schindler • 02/12/17 10:00 am In a recent column, I explained how the still-forming Trump administration is already doing serious harm to America’s longstanding global intelligence partnerships. In particular, fears that the White House is too friendly to Moscow are causing close allies to curtail some of their espionage relationships with Washington—a development with grave implications […]
BY BEN KAMISAR AND REBECCA KHEEL – 02/11/17 12:00 PM EST Donald Trump and John McCain wrote a new chapter in their long feud this week, when the president ripped the Arizona GOP senator for emboldening the enemy by calling last month’s U.S. raid in Yemen a failure. CLICK IMAGE for link to story, The nasty jousting between a […]
By Jim Sciutto and Evan Perez, CNN Updated 5:25 PM ET, Fri February 10, 2017 Washington (CNN) For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN. As CNN first reported, then-President-elect Donald […]
By Greg Miller, Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima February 9 at 11:25 PM National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials, current and former U.S. officials said. CLICK TOP IMAGE for video. CLICK HEADLINE […]
DAVID CORN FEB. 9, 2017 6:00 AM The biggest election-related scandal since Watergate occurred last year, and it has largely disappeared from the political-media landscape of Washington. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. According to the consensus assessment of US intelligence agencies, Russian intelligence, under the orders of Vladimir Putin, mounted an extensive operation to […]
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and IVAN NECHEPURENKO FEB. 8, 2017 MOSCOW — A Russian court on Wednesday effectively derailed a presidential run by Aleksei A. Navalny — the only opposition candidate with a broad, enthusiastic popular following — by reviving a four-year-old criminal conviction. The decision by the district court was widely viewed as a move by President Vladimir V. Putin to […]
February 7 2017 In a tweet on Tuesday morning, President Trump repeated his claim that he doesn’t “know [Vladimir] Putin,” an argument he’s made ever since closeness to Russia and its president became a political liability. Back when knowing world leaders was an asset, though, Trump bragged about a relationship with Putin. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 2/6/17 Russia propaganda turns up in US foreign policy query Rachel Maddoow reports on Russia propaganda about Poland invading Belarus, which would be an obscure story except that senior White House officials have reportedly made inquiries about it, leading to questions about where the White House is getting its information. Duration: 16:06 CLICK IMAGE […]
Deborah Barfield Berry USA TODAY Feb. 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — While President Trump is promising to launch an investigation into his belief that millions of illegal ballots were cast in 2016, the Republican-led House Administration Committee voted Tuesday to shut down the federal agency set up to help states improve their election systems. Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Miss., chairman of the House […]
Feb 3rd 2017 CLICK MAP for direct link to story. THE timing was ominous. A day after the first, seemingly cordial telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the residents of Avdiivka, a small town on the Ukrainian side of the conflict line with Russian-backed separatists, heard the echoes of heavy artillery fire. The […]
