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    John Kelly Finally Lets Loose on Trump
    Feb13

    John Kelly Finally Lets Loose on Trump

    MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Lieut. Col Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide and impeachment witness President Donald Trump fired Friday, was just doing his job, former White House chief of staff John Kelly told students and guests at a Drew University event here Wednesday night.Over a 75-minute speech and question-and-answer...

    Yovanovitch: Political leaders need to do more to support the foreign service
    Feb13

    Yovanovitch: Political leaders need to do more to support the foreign service

    Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in a public address Wednesday called on political leaders to do more to support the U.S. foreign service, while warning about a demoralized atmosphere at the State Department under President Trump… …read more Source:: The...

    Tensions Soar as Leaders Prepare for Key Global Security Summit
    Feb13

    Tensions Soar as Leaders Prepare for Key Global Security Summit

    Political and military leaders from across the world head to Germany for the three-day Munich Security Conference that opens Friday. As Henry Ridgwell reports from Munich, from Iran to Hong Kong, Ukraine to Libya, there is no shortage of security flashpoints — and the conflicts are taking place against the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak and...

    Nunes And Other House Intel GOPers Boycott Meeting To Force Schiff To Investigate FISA
    Feb13

    Nunes And Other House Intel GOPers Boycott Meeting To Force Schiff To Investigate FISA

    House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) and his eight Republican colleagues on the committee skipped a meeting on Wednesday in protest of committee chair Adam Schiff (D-CA). The GOP lawmakers sent Schiff a letter informing him that they would not attend a Strategic Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) subcommittee...

    Where’s Hunter? Until Recently, On the Board of the Left’s Premier National Security Network 
    Feb13

    Where’s Hunter? Until Recently, On the Board of the Left’s Premier National Security Network 

    If Joe Biden’s presidential campaign collapses in the coming weeks, as looks increasingly likely, it will be in part because of stories like this. In 2011, two years into his father’s term as vice president, Hunter Biden was appointed by the Truman National Security Project, a left-leaning foreign policy network, to its board of...

    Sifting Through The Wreckage
    Feb12

    Sifting Through The Wreckage

    It is no big revelation to recognize that the churning dysfunctions of American politics are bound to affect American foreign and national security policies, and with them the rest of the world in one way or another. This is because the United States is no ordinary country. It is very big, very wealthy, very powerful, and very attention-arresting...

    Ukrainian Police Major, Ex-Convict Wanted in Arson of RFE/RL’s Reporter’s Car
    Feb12

    Ukrainian Police Major, Ex-Convict Wanted in Arson of RFE/RL’s Reporter’s Car

    Ukraine’s Prosecutor-General’s Office in Lviv suspects an underworld criminal and a police major of collusion in the arson of a vehicle belonging to RFE/RL correspondent Halyna Tereshchuk.Iryna Didenko, the lead prosecutor of the Lviv region, signed the charge sheets for the two suspects on Feb. 11.Accused of ordering the torching of...

    Facebook Removes Accounts in Russia, Iran With Alleged Intelligence Links
    Feb12

    Facebook Removes Accounts in Russia, Iran With Alleged Intelligence Links

    Social media giant Facebook on Wednesday removed two unconnected networks of accounts, pages, and groups “engaging in foreign or government interference,” one originating in Russia and the other one in Iran, both of which have alleged ties to intelligence services.Calling the behavior “coordinated” and “inauthentic,” Facebook’s head of...

    Ukraine’s President Appoints Chief Of Staff Linked To Trump’s Lawyer
    Feb12

    Ukraine’s President Appoints Chief Of Staff Linked To Trump’s Lawyer

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has a new chief of staff. Andriy Yermak was previously his foreign affairs adviser, negotiating a key prisoner exchange with Moscow and meeting with senior U.S. officials — as well as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Guiliani. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Facebook Says It Dismantles Russian Intelligence Operation Targeting Ukraine
    Feb12

    Facebook Says It Dismantles Russian Intelligence Operation Targeting Ukraine

    Facebook on Wednesday said it had suspended a network of accounts used by Russian military intelligence to seed false narratives online targeting Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe.”Although the people behind this network attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to Russian military...