by WILLIAM M. ARKIN, KEN DILANIAN, ROBERT WINDREM and CYNTHIA MCFADDEN EXCLUSIVE DEC 15 2016, 6:55 PM ET The Obama administration didn’t respond more forcefully to Russian hacking before the presidential election because they didn’t want to appear to be interfering in the election and they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win and a potential cyber war with Russia […]
by Steven Musil December 15, 2016 5:07 PM PST A security firm discovers more than 100 login credentials for computers at the US Election Assistance Commission on the internet black market. The US agency responsible for certifying the security of voting machines reportedly fell victim to a hacker believed to be Russian. Security firm Recorded Future said Thursday […]
By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO DEC. 15, 2016 WASHINGTON — When a suspected Russian cybercriminal named Dmitry Ukrainsky was arrested in a Thai resort town last summer, the American authorities hoped they could whisk him back to New York for trial and put at least a temporary dent in Russia’s arsenal of computer hackers. But the Russian authorities […]
Deborah Barfield Berry Dec. 15, 2016 SILVER SPRING, Md. — A government agency that assists states in improving voting systems may have been the target of a hacker, although the breach was blocked very quickly, and no ballots were at risk. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) said Thursday […]
By Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller December 14, 2016 A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan, newly released documents show. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to WP video. CLICK […]
By Kurt Eichenwald December 13th, 2016. Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he is already making decisions and issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from American foreign policy, all to the benefit of his family’s corporate empire. Because of this, the next president of the United States is already vulnerable to […]
Paige Lavender Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post President-elect Donald Trump will announce on Tuesday morning he’s chosen Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state. Trump tweeted Monday that he would make an official announcement about his choice for secretary of state Tuesday morning. The Associated Press and The New York Times report Tillerson is Trump’s pick. Trump met with Tillerson in […]
By ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE DEC. 13, 2016 WASHINGTON — South Florida has long been a laboratory for some of the nation’s roughest politics, with techniques like phantom candidates created by political rivals to siphon off votes from their opponents, or so-called boleteras hired to illegally fill out stacks of absentee ballots on behalf of elderly or disabled voters. But there was […]
TheHill.com BY ALEXANDER BOLTON – 12/12/16 10:18 AM EST Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the Senate Intelligence Committee should investigate recent CIA findings that the Russian government tried to influence the U.S. presidential election. Calling the allegations of Russian meddling “disturbing,” McConnell said Monday the intelligence panel should take the lead, dismissing calls by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and […]
DECEMBER 11, 2016, 10:32 AM| Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, says Russia has interfered in other elections. JOHN DICKERSON, CBS HOST: Today on FACE THE NATION: New reports about Russia influencing the presidential election create a political firestorm and sour relations between the president-elect and the intelligence community. President-elect Donald Trump took a break Saturday afternoon to […]
