by Jim Heath | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Excerpts, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, intelligence
Former director of national intelligence Dan Coats could not shake his “deep suspicions” that Russian President Vladimir Putin “had something” on President Trump, seeing “no other explanation” for the president’s behavior,...
by Jim Heath | Sep 3, 2020 | 2020, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
Russia has sought to “amplify” concerns over the integrity of U.S. elections by promoting allegations that mail-in voting will lead to widespread fraud, again echoing a frequent and unfounded complaint raised by President Trump. Analysts with the Department of...
by Jim Heath | Sep 1, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Social Media
Twitter and Facebook announced today they had suspended accounts linked to a Russian influence operation which posed as an independent news outlet to target left-wing voters in the United States and Britain. The accounts were linked to a website named Peace Data,...
by Jim Heath | Aug 26, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
Four U.S. troops were injured after a Russian military vehicle deliberately rammed the vehicle they were driving following a tense high-speed confrontation in the east of Syria. The U.S. service members have been diagnosed with mild concussion-like symptoms, Politico...
by Jim Heath | Aug 18, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
A sprawling report released today by a Republican-controlled Senate panel that spent three years investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference laid out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russian government officials and other...
