NYT: Putin Ordered ‘Influence Campaign’ Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says

NYT: Putin Ordered ‘Influence Campaign’ Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says

By DAVID E. SANGER JAN. 6, 2017  WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, personally “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election,” and turned from seeking to “denigrate” Hillary Clinton to developing “a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The conclusions were part of […]

slate: Trump’s Server Revisited

slate: Trump’s Server Revisited

By Franklin Foer November 2nd, 2016 On Monday, I published a reported piece that raised questions about a server owned by the Trump Organization. The server appeared to be unusually configured, and to communicate almost exclusively with two servers registered to Alfa Bank in Moscow. The piece followed a group of computer scientists who had stumbled […]

NBC News: FBI Making Inquiry Into Ex-Trump Campaign Mgr.’s Foreign Ties

NBC News: FBI Making Inquiry Into Ex-Trump Campaign Mgr.’s Foreign Ties

BY KEN DILANIAN, ROBERT WINDREM, WILLIAM M. ARKIN and TOM WINTER Reported by CYNTHIA McFADDEN Nov. 1, 2016  The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday. Word of the inquiry, which has not blossomed into a […]