Robert Mueller’s “no collusion” has confounded his critics among former heads of U.S. intelligence agencies. Former CIA director John Brennan admitted that his attacks on President Trump may have been unfounded. “Well, I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” Brennan said. “I...
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Mueller’s Report Blunts the Criticism of Former Spy Chiefs
The report of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, as summarized by Attorney General Bill Barr, significantly qualifies the U.S. intelligence community’s January 2017 finding about Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. The unclassified findings of the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency set the stage for the special prosecutor’s investigation by asserting that Russian President...
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Will Mueller’s Counterintelligence Report Be Made Public?
The drum roll for Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s final report is finally complete. For a long time, Attorney General Bill Barr has been saying he might not release the whole report to the public. So tthe House of Representatives passed a resolution, by a resounding vote of 420-0, calling for its release. President Trump indicated he...
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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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Grassley Blocks Controversial Counterintelligence Nominee
Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is blocking the nomination of former FBI agent Bill Evanina for the nation’s top counterintelligence position. The back story here is — what else? — the Trump-Russia investigation. Evanina was the government’s most senior counterintelligence official during Russia’s hack and release influence operation aimed at undermining...