Tag: Russia

Beltway Confidential

Cables, Kadryov, and Amman station: Why Bill Burns is a good pick for CIA director

Tom Rogan · January 11, 2021 6:01 pm

Mikhail Gorbachev says he knows who organized attack on Capitol

Carly Roman · January 11, 2021 3:18 pm

A U.S. Air Force plane takes off from the Incirlik airbase, in southern Turkey.Â "In my opinion this is not the same fight as it was when it started," Marine Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea told reporters at the Pentagon.

US military presence in Georgia would help deter Russia and contain Iran

Miro Popkhadze · January 9, 2021 6:22 pm

Beltway Confidential

Nancy Pelosi’s dangerous and silly nuclear mistake

Tom Rogan · January 8, 2021 7:46 pm

A statue of "Justice" is seen at federal court as closing arguments are expected in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018.

Federal court system’s sealed records likely breached by SolarWinds hack

Jerry Dunleavy · January 8, 2021 5:44 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Trump exits, but will his tariffs remain?

Scott Lincicome · January 8, 2021 4:00 am

US officials see fewer than 10 agencies compromised in recent attack

Grant Gross · January 8, 2021 4:00 am

‘Deja vu’: China invokes Capitol crisis to justify Hong Kong crackdown

Joel Gehrke · January 7, 2021 9:07 pm

In this May 21, 2014, photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, smile during signing ceremony in Shanghai, China. China signed a long-awaited, 30-year deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural gas worth some $400 billion in a financial and diplomatic boost to diplomatically isolated President Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration is playing down an increasingly warm relationship between its main global rivals, China and Russia, that it may have inadvertently encouraged.

Intelligence analysts downplayed Chinese election influence to avoid supporting Trump policies, inspector finds

Jerry Dunleavy · January 7, 2021 7:21 pm

The commander of U.S. Strategic Command, Navy Adm. Charles A. "Chas" Richard, provides an update on the command's mission and readiness during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Pentagon Press Briefing Room, Washington, D.C., Sept. 14, 2020.

STRATCOM: US nuclear strategy endangered if Left cuts modernization funding

Abraham Mahshie · January 7, 2021 11:30 am

An American flag flies outside the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department officials got a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate by misleading a surveillance court judge, House Republicans contend in a newly released memo that Democrats have dismissed as a contrived account intended to protect the president.

DOJ says likely Russian SolarWinds hack affected its email systems

Jerry Dunleavy · January 6, 2021 8:46 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on economic issue in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.

SolarWinds hack likely an active Russian intelligence-gathering effort, US spy agencies say

Jerry Dunleavy · January 5, 2021 9:11 pm