Tag: Russia

Beltway Confidential

How and why Turkey is fueling the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

Tom Rogan · September 30, 2020 3:30 pm

FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

James Comey had ‘trouble understanding’ letter on unverified report about Clinton conjuring up Trump-Russia scandal

Jerry Dunleavy, Daniel Chaitin · September 30, 2020 3:02 pm

Russia jails gulag historian for 13 years over allegedly fabricated sexual abuse charges

Mica Soellner · September 29, 2020 11:20 pm

President Obama will campaign with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, July 5, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama was briefed on unverified Russian report claiming Clinton approved plan to tie Trump to Putin and DNC hack

Jerry Dunleavy · September 29, 2020 10:06 pm

Beltway Confidential

Russia invents CIA plot to kill Catholics and destabilize Belarus

Tom Rogan · September 29, 2020 7:44 pm

Former special counsel Robert Mueller, is sworn in before he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019.

Without ‘favor or fear’: Mueller defends Russia investigation against criticism by Andrew Weissmann

Jerry Dunleavy · September 29, 2020 7:23 pm

Then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill last year. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Peter Strzok kept up secretive searches of Michael Flynn after George Papadopoulos told FBI he received Russian ‘dirt’ tip

Jerry Dunleavy · September 29, 2020 3:44 pm

Reporter Glenn Greenwald first reported former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA's government surveillance programs. (AP/Vincent Yu)

Glenn Greenwald says MSNBC refuses to book him over criticism of ‘Russiagate’ coverage

Spencer Neale · September 29, 2020 3:25 pm

Beltway Confidential

War between Armenia and Azerbaijan helps no one, except Russia

Margarita Assenova, Janusz Bugajski · September 29, 2020 12:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

National Security

‘What is the leverage they have?’: Pelosi says Trump taxes a ‘national security’ matter

Zach Halaschak · September 28, 2020 11:52 pm

‘A great deal of confusion and uncertainty’: Trump coronavirus adviser infighting breaks into open

Cassidy Morrison · September 28, 2020 10:48 pm

In this handout photo taken from a footage released by Azerbaijanâs Defense Ministry on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, Azerbaijanâs soldiers fire from a mortar at the contact line of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continued on Monday morning after erupting the day before, with both sides blaming each other for resuming the attacks.

Fears grow of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan as fighting continues for second day

Zach Halaschak · September 28, 2020 10:37 pm