America’s most important spy agency pulls out all the stops in its investigation of Russian interference in 2016 In my last column, I broke the news that Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, last week explained...
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NSA in Unprecedented Hunt for KremlinGate Evidence
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EXCLUSIVE: NSA Chief Admits Trump Colluded with Russia
When will Admiral Mike Rogers say publicly what he told his agency’s workforce? President Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey, the FBI director, three weeks ago continues to reverberate in the KremlinGate scandal which threatens to consume the Trump administration....
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The West is Pushing Back on Kremlin Lies — Without America
Putin’s Fake News offensive against the West has generated resistance – but not in Washington Last week I was in Prague, participating in the STRATCOM 2017 summit – and it was a week very well spent. Sponsored by the European...
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Putin’s Central European Spy Base
Why does the Kremlin have so many spies and secret operatives in the Czech Republic? PRAGUE—The capital of the Czech Republic is indisputably one of the loveliest cities in Europe. Having avoided major bombing or combat in the Second World...
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The East-West SpyWar as Viewed from Putin’s Doorstep
There is cause for optimism in the West about resisting Russia – but not too much, yet TALLINN—This is the NATO capital closest to Mother Russia. Estonia is not, as Team Trump stalwart Newt Gingrich bizarrely put it last year,...
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This Can’t End Well for Trump
Dismissing FBI Director Comey didn’t make the Russia problem go away—it made things worse President Donald Trump’s surprise firing of FBI Director James Comey late on Tuesday took Washington and the whole country by storm. The White House cashiering the...
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Putin Declares War on the West
Kremlin efforts to sway France’s election failed—but Russian spy-games are far from over A presidential candidate loathed by Moscow suffers a massive cyber-attack by Russian spies. Purloined emails that are embarrassing for the front-runner are dumped online by Kremlin fronts....
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Putin-Proofing the Balkans: A How-To Guide
The West needs to accept its mistakes in Southeastern Europe and correct them—before the Kremlin does In my last column, I explained how rising tumult in the Balkans threatens to bring chaos and war to that troubled region again, in a...