People are asking me, “Who should I believe?” In the furious debate that has followed Attorney General Bill Barr’s four-page letter about Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s 300-page report, consumers of left-liberal (and NeverTrump right) opinion have to choose who is more credible: Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Tracey? Or David Corn, Marcy Wheeler, and...
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Russian Hacker Indicted by Mueller Denies All in Curious BBC Interview
Sergey Polozov, a 31-year-old Web designer, is one of 13 Russians indicted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller in Feb. 2018, for fraudulent activities related to U.S. accounts. In a new interview with BBC Russia, Polozov dismissed the charges, saying his work for the Internet Research Association “was never in English and never had any apparent...
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Threatening Cyberwar May Encourage, Not Deter, Cyberattacks, Official Say
The New York Times cyberwar report over the weekend that the U.S is escalating attacks on Russia’s power grid worries former White House cybersecurity officials. “The idea that we can use cyber offense capabilities to impose sabotage-like effects, and to do so in increasingly large scale and costly ways until they get it through their...
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Authorities Implicate CIA in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid
The story from El Pais, the leading newspaper of Spain, suggests U.S. intelligence might have had a hand in the Feb. 22 invasion of North Korea’s embassy in Madrid. At least two of the 10 assailants who broke into the embassy and interrogated diplomatic staff have been identified and have connections to the US intelligence...
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My Apologies to Maria Butina, a Trump-Russia Scapegoat
Last month in the New Republic magazine, veteran intelligence author James Bamford came to the defense of Maria Butina, the American University graduate student who has been often depicted as a Russian spy. I have done so on this blog. Bamford argued that Butina is not a spy but scapegoat for prosecutors with a weak...