Section: The Washington Free Beacon (USA)
Argentina Freezes Hezbollah Assets
Recent Stories in National Security Bi-Partisan Commission Detects Russian Misinformation Effort in Ukraine Argentina Freezes Hezbollah Assets Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Seize Foreign Tanker BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentinian authorities designated Hezbollah, which it blames for two attacks on its soil, a terrorist organization on...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Seize Foreign Tanker
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Thursday it had seized a foreign tanker smuggling fuel in the Gulf, and the U.S. military commander in the region said the United States would work “aggressively” to ensure free passage of vessels through the vital waterway. The United States blames Iran for a series of attacks on shipping in the...
Graham Challenger Takes In Over $15,000 From Lobbyists
Democrat Jaime Harrison, a well-connected former corporate lobbyist running to unseat Republican senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, received over $15,000 from at least two dozen lobbyists during the second quarter of 2019. Harrison, who has been quiet about his former career as a corporate lobbyist during recent television interviews and...
In Major Foreign Policy Speech, Biden Identifies Trump as the Enemy
It was May, just two weeks after Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential bid, and Robert Gates sat down for an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation. The host, Margaret Brennan, asked the former secretary of defense whether Biden would be an “effective” commander in chief after reading a memorable line from Gates’s memoir:...
U.S. Kicks Off 19-Nation War Games Drills in Ukraine
The United States military and partners from 19 countries are getting set to kick off a massive series of war drills in Ukraine amid rising threats from Iran and Russia, according to the Defense Department. From July 1 to 12, American military assets will join with “19 nations, 33 ships, 26 aircraft, and over 3,000 troops to participate in...
FBI, DHS Contacted Over Stealth Dem Effort to Gain Voter Data
A massive effort to obtain Michigan voter data spearheaded by powerhouse Democratic group Priorities USA was so “unusual” that top officials in the state contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security over the matter, internal emails provided to the Washington Free Beacon show. Michigan clerks began...
Trump: ‘I Meet and Talk to Foreign Governments Every Day’
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday to defend his stance that he would check out information from foreign governments about political opponents before going to the FBI. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Trump in an interview Wednesday what he would do if someone from a foreign government came to him with information on an...
Anti-Lobbying Progressive Group Endorses Former Corporate Lobbyist Senate Candidate
Democracy for America (DFA), a progressive activist group that has repeatedly criticized lobbyists and corporate interests, endorsed former corporate lobbyist Jaime Harrison on Tuesday in his challenge against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.). DFA, which was formed out of Howard Dean’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2004 and was a...
Trump’s Great D-Day Speech
President Trump gave one of the best speeches of his presidency while many Americans were brushing their teeth. His remarks at the seventy-fifth commemoration of D-Day at the Normandy American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, were gracious, moving, poetic, and delivered in a time zone six hours ahead of the East Coast. Which is too bad....
Last Living Survivor of Uprising at German Death Camp Dies, Aged 96
Semyon Rosenfeld, the last living survivor of an uprising at the infamous Nazi extermination camp Sobibor, has died aged 96 at a hospital in Israel. Rosenfeld was born in Ukraine in 1922, and joined the Red Army to fight Nazi Germany during World War II. Rosenfeld was captured by Nazi soldiers in 1941, and spent time in a labor camp in Minsk...
