Yesterday brought stunning news of yet another security lapse by our Navy. As reported by The Washington Post, Chinese hackers in the first two months of this year penetrated the computers of an unnamed defense contractor, “stealing massive amounts of...
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Chinese Theft of US Navy’s Secrets Reveals DoD’s Lackadaisical Security
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Mueller Finally Starts to Target Trump’s Israel Ties
Our media has followed the Justice Department’s investigation of President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia closely for more than a year, with each revelation getting granular analysis amid endless television coverage. No news here is too small to avoid hours...
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The Russians Might Be Listening to Trump’s Bedtime Chats With Sean Hannity
One of the facts of life in today’s America, and in most other even somewhat developed countries, is that people of all ages are addicted to their smartphones. Nearly everyone except the very young and very old spend a high...
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Ukraine’s Ploy to Save a Russian Journalist by Faking His Death Is Already Backfiring
Two days ago, Kremlin-watchers worldwide were stunned and saddened to hear of the assassination of Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist and war correspondent who fled his homeland in early 2017, fearing for his life. As a prominent critic of President...
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Here’s How the FBI Investigation Into Russia and Trump Campaign Actually Started
No story is hotter across America this Memorial Day weekend than what the Federal Bureau of Investigation did—and did not do—in 2016 about Russian connections to Donald J. Trump. As the summer enjoys its unofficial kickoff, headlines and social media...
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What the Hunt for a Top Nazi War Criminal Tells Us About Trump’s Russia Problem
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda guru, is infamous for his assertion that the bigger the lie, the more effective it is—particularly if you stick to it. It’s not hard to demonstrate that mixing fact and fiction together to spin a...
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New Evidence Shows Russia Played a Role in Plane Crash That Killed Poland’s Top Brass
The crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 airliner near the Russian city of Smolensk on April 10, 2010 stands as the most momentous air disaster in modern times. Although other crashes have claimed more victims—the death toll at Smolensk...
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Why Did the US Ambassador to Germany Defend a Human Trafficker?
It’s no secret that the Trump administration, in office for almost 16 months now, has a devilish time filling top positions. An unprecedented number of plum jobs in our nation’s capital, including senior ones of the kind that Beltway wannabes...
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Forget Pee-Pee Tapes: the Kremlin Just Dropped a Bigger Bomb on the White House
As long as suspicion has surrounded President Donald Trump regarding his secret ties to Russia—that is, every day of his presidency—lurid rumors have swirled about what unpleasant things the Kremlin might know about the Oval Office’s current occupant. In particular,...
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Kremlingate Is Really Just Watergate for Morons—With Russians
The scandal surrounding President Donald Trump and his reputed secret ties to the Kremlin has swirled around him since before his inauguration 15 months ago. For his entire presidency, just what the commander-in-chief’s relationship with Moscow—no friends of ours, no...