by Jim Heath | Dec 20, 2020 | Fox News, Headlines
In an unusual move, Fox News is airing segments to counter previous remarks made by its conservative hosts and pro-Trump guests that voting software firm Smartmatic was involved in election fraud. The taped segment where a voting technology expert shoots down the many...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that Donald Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election. These officials told Axios that Trump is spending too much time with people...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | Headlines, Trump
Attorney General Bill Barr confirmed the Central Intelligence Agency didn’t stray beyond its international spy brief in 2016. Barr, who is leaving the Justice Department before Christmas, told the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel this week that early on,...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Outgoing President Trump yesterday discussed making Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed a series of conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, a special counsel investigating voter fraud....
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump has hit out at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for blaming Russia for the huge cyber attack. In a swipe at Pompeo, the one-term defeated president who has had a love-type relationship with Russia and its authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin, tweeted today...
by Jim Heath | Dec 18, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
A massive suspected Russian hacking campaign that compromised broad swathes of the federal government and private sector is being called a ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ by members of both political parties. The sprawling attack, which went undetected for nearly...