Section: The Washington Free Beacon (USA)
GRU Spearphishing Emails Fooled Democrats, Clinton Campaign in 2016
Russia’s GRU military intelligence service used fraudulent emails to gain access to large amounts of sensitive emails and documents that were then disseminated via covert GRU websites during the 2016 presidential election campaign influence operation, according to the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Two GRU intelligence units...
Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig Indicted for Alleged False Statements
Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig was indicted Thursday on two counts of making false statements about work for clients in Ukraine in a case stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Craig served under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2010 and is a prominent Democratic attorney. He faces up to five...
Russian Group Offered Paramilitary Training to U.S. Neo-Nazis
The FBI has obtained intelligence information indicating a Russian ultra-nationalist group linked to bombings in Sweden and subversion in Ukraine offered paramilitary training to U.S. alt-right, neo-Nazi activists. The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a St. Petersburg-based group, contacted organizers of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in...
Future Ukrainian NATO Membership In Question With Possibility of New President
KIEV, Ukraine—The Ukrainian presidential election will head to a runoff April 21 after Volodymyr Zelensky received 30.3 percent of the Ukrainian vote and current President Petro Poroshenko received 16 percent in the first round of voting, according to exit polling. Observers say Ukraine’s hopes for NATO membership may be in jeopardy with...
Official: Obama White House Pushed Delay of Anti-Israel U.N. Resolution to Provide Cover for Clinton
A former Obama administration official said the administration orchestrated the delaying of a controversial anti-Israel United Nations resolution until after the 2016 presidential election, knowing it would pass when the United States abstained. The official’s claim contradicts on-the-record denials by Obama administration officials, who...
Pompeo Says He Hopes to Set New Measures Soon Against Russia Over Actions In Ukraine
Read the entire article at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. _ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he hopes to be able in the coming days to announce additional measures along with Western allies to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine. “Next week I am hopeful, when our NATO colleagues are in town, we will be able to announce another...
The Last Warrior Passes
“I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord.” – Book of Tehillim (Psalms), 122:1 KIEV, Ukraine—On March 26, America lost Andrew W. Marshall, one of its great foreign policy and military strategists, who succumbed to various complications associated with congestive heart failure. He was a man who was more...
Inspector Warner, Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Doesn’t Know
Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) still has a lot to uncover in regards to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. “That is news to me. And that is big news,” exclaimed Warner, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about the revelation that then-candidate Donald Trump might have in...
Liz Cheney Slams Trump Admin. Proposal to Lift Certain Russian Sanctions
Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) on Friday said she disapproved of the Trump administration’s proposal to terminate sanctions on companies connected with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Cheney, the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, outlined her support for H.J. Res. 30, which is a “joint resolution [that] expresses disapproval...
A Hazardous Form of Peace
Austin Bay opens his new book on the world’s flashpoints with a scene from the end of the Cold War. Or, at least, a scene from an American high-school during those strange days, as the Soviet bloc crumbled in the early 1990s. A retired Army colonel turned military historian and novelist, Bay was invited to join a panel of successful people...
