The ugliness of President Trump’s attacks on the whistleblower who first exposed his scheme to extract political favors from the Ukraine government has reached its logical culmination. Mark Zaid, the whistleblower’s attorney, received a death threat last year that has resulted in the arrest of a supporter of the president. The email came from Brittan...
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Maxim Yakubets, Russia’s Top Hacker, Has Ties to Russia’s FSB
This story comes, not from Western intelligence agencies (which have a vested interest in elevating the threat of Russia) but from the independent Russian media, which has a vested interest in exposing how the country’s opaque authoritarian regime functions. Here investigative journalist Liliya Yapparova from Meduza explores the hacking collective known as Evil Corp and...
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Was the Leader of U.S. Embassy Attack in Iraq a Guest in the Obama White House?
You can read this story two ways. You could say Obama harbored an enemy of America. Or you could say that President Trump has so alienated our allies in Iraq that Iraqi political leaders once willing to work with the United States are now so alienated from U.S. government that they are besieging our embassy....
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Why Trump’s Investigation of the Investigators Is Failing
For months, the names of Michael Horowitz and John Durham have figured in the pounding rhythms of right-wing media in which a heroically afflicted president faces down his perfidious enemies. A steady drumbeat of reports from Fox News, echoed by President Trump, Republican loyalists in Congress and media mouthpieces, proclaimed these two obscure Justice Department...
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What Mueller Didn’t Say About ‘Putin’s Prince’ and His Troll Factory
(This article was first published on Just Security) The narrow testimony and contentious questioning of Robert Mueller has raised questions on the political left as well as the right about one of his most significant findings related to Russia’s secret efforts to influence the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump: the social media...