Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Security, Europe
Are enough Republicans in Congress interested in constraining Trump’s freedom of action on Russia, and would an outgoing Obama administration be willing to use its last “lame duck” days in office to sign such legislation?
Having assessed the evidence presented to it by the intelligence community, the outgoing Obama administration, having concluded they possessed sufficient evidence against Russian cyber units to definitively assign responsibility for hacks undertaken against U.S. political entities during the recent presidential campaign, decided not to pass the buck to the incoming Trump administration to decide what steps ought to be taken but instead …read more
Source: The National Interest
