The XX Committee

It’s International Talk Like a Chekist Day—here’s a quick primer on kombinatsiya, konspiratsiya and more As the Trump administration’s Russia problem shows no sign of going away, protesting presidential tweets notwithstanding, it’s time to think about it properly. Understanding what...

Kremlin’s brazen interference in our politics has been exposed—changing the spy-game to Russia’s disadvantage Monday’s marathon Congressional session about Moscow’s clandestine machinations during our 2016 election was one for the books. The directors of the FBI and NSA hardly ever...

For all their denunciations of ‘fake news,’ the current administration has become a leading purveyor of it The threat to the West posed by Kremlin lies—what is properly termed disinformation—is something that I and a few other specialists have raised the...

The President tried to blame the Brits for his own self-created debacle. That wasn’t smart. The bizarre saga of Donald Trump’s wiretapping hoax has taken a turn for the even stranger. Earlier this week I laid out how the president’s...

President Obama never wiretapped Donald Trump—that was fake news Less than two weeks ago, President Donald Trump set the political world afire with a series of pre-dawn tweets publicly accusing Barack Obama of “wiretapping” Trump Tower during last year’s presidential...

Carter Page part of a pro-Putin gang that pushed the President’s mounting Russia problems to crisis levels Last week I explained in this column how President Donald Trump, despite facing serious political challenges over his murky ties to the Kremlin,...