Michael Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent Yahoo News January 4, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a Russian dissident now living in exile in the United States, warned today that the world could be what he called “entering a very dark ages” unless President-elect Donald Trump reverses course and stands up […]
BY BEN KAMISAR – 12/30/16 02:52 PM EST President-elect Donald Trump on Friday lauded Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very smart” for not retaliating against the U.S. for new sanctions unveiled this week. “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) — I always knew he was very smart!” Trump tweeted Friday. Minutes after Trump’s tweet, the Russian Embassy […]
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By ANDREW E. KRAMER DEC. 29, 2016 MOSCOW — Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks — until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite. CLICK IMAGE FOR LINK TO STORY. Mr. Vyarya, 33, a bearded, bespectacled computer programmer who thwarted hackers, said he was suddenly […]
James S. Henry December 19th, 2016 Did the American people really know they were putting such a “well-connected” guy in the White House? Even before the November 8 election, many leading Democrats were vociferously demanding that the FBI disclose the fruits of its investigations into Putin-backed Russian hackers. Instead FBI Director Comey decided to temporarily […]
By John Shattuck December 16th, 2016 A specter of treason hovers over Donald Trump. He has brought it on himself by dismissing a bipartisan call for an investigation of Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee as a “ridiculous” political attack on the legitimacy of his election as president. Seventeen US national intelligence agencies have […]
By Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane December 13th, 2016 WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk. CLICK IMAGE for direct […]
Dec 16, 2016 9:53am PST by MeemaSue WHY RUSSIA HELPED TRUMP? On 4/4/2016, Lilia Shevtsova wrote in The American Interest about the powerful effect of US-European sanctions against Russia and Syria. Frozen assets in the U.S. of the oligarch Yuri Kovalchuk, a close ally of Putin, have totaled $572 million. In Italy, the Rottenberg brothers have also […]
Putin turns political power into extreme wealth Rachel Maddow explains how Russia, under Boris Yeltsin, privatized its national assets to a few powerful bank oligarchs, and how Vladimir Putin learned to take advantage of that system to make himself, according to US intelligence, the richest man in the world. Duration: 21:33
By WILLIAM M. ARKIN, KEN DILANIAN and CYNTHIA MCFADDEN 12.15.16 U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Two senior officials with direct access to […]
