Shortly after Sen. Paul tweeted out an article that speculated in considerable detail about the identity of the whistleblower—with a photograph, a name, and details about the purported political history of a CIA professional—Russian state media followed suit. As if on cue, the Kremlin-controlled heavy hitters—TASS, RT, Rossiya-1—disseminated the same information. But unlike Rand Paul,...
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Firm Hired by Ukraine’s Burisma Tried to Use Hunter Biden as Leverage
Joe Biden’s vulnerability to President Trump’s attacks on his son’s business dealings in Ukraine are illustrated by this Wall Street Journal report. There’s still a lot we don’t know about Biden’s sinecure with the Burisama, an energy company assembled by a corrupt oligarch. The documents—email exchanges between State Department staff members made public this week—show...
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BBC: Britain Ramps Up Hybrid Warfare Plans
British intelligence services are reorganizing their special operations to take on the hybrid warfare waged by Russia in Ukraine. The goal, according to a BBC report quoted in the National Interest, is to take action short of war to thwart Russia. It is another sign that Western intelligence agencies are downgrading their primary mission since...