by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Military, Trump
President Trump said today the Islamic State in Syria has been defeated, and some of the 2,000 U.S. troops battling the terrorist group will begin coming home. It was a surprise move that drew a swift rebuke from key Republican hawks and some foreign policy experts....
by Jim Heath | Dec 16, 2018 | Congress, Cyber Security, Headlines, Trump
A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to...
by Jim Heath | Dec 10, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Guns, Headlines
Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist, is poised to plead guilty in a case involving accusations that she was working as an agent for the Kremlin in the United States. The 30-year-old Butina spent years building ties to the National Rifle Association,...
by Jim Heath | Dec 8, 2018 | Analysis, Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
In 1998, Republicans were quick to impeach then President Bill Clinton after he lied under oath about an affair with an intern. Twenty years later, Republicans are facing the very real possibility that their party leader committed Obstruction of Justice and collided...
by Jim Heath | Dec 7, 2018 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
There are two huge revelations from a memo and a separate sentencing filing released today by special counsel Robert Mueller and his team that will send tremors through the White House. First, Mueller’s team disclosed that a Russian national reached out to...
