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Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images As punishment, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a series of measures designed to, as the White House put it, “defend our national interests and impose costs for Russian Government actions that seek to harm us.” Those measures include sanctioning six Russian technology firms that support the Russian intelligence service’s cyber program; 32 entities and individuals involved in election interference and disinformation campaigns; limits on US financial in...

Two separate criminal investigations in New York with numerous potential charges The DC Attorney general is reviewing criminal charges against Trump for January 6 Fulton County, Georgia is reviewing criminal charges for election tampering Possible criminal charges in the coverup of the Khashoggi murder and then the civil cases…. Just Security: On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, with more cases likely to ...

Origin The idea that former U.S. President Donald Trump was somehow compromised by the Russian government is not a new one. His single term was clouded by the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to help Trump win. These accusations got new legs with the Jan. 26, 2021, publication of the book “American Kompromat” by journalist Craig Unger. In the book, Unger cites ex-KGB officer Yuri Shvets in ma...

Ex-CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos believes he was targeted while on a visit to Moscow.

New accounts have emerged from CIA officers of suspected sonic attacks by Russia which have been blamed for mysterious symptoms suffered by US operatives around the world.  After dozens of Americans became inexplicably ill in Havana beginning in 2016, similar incidents have been reported in Russia, China, Australia and elsewhere - with suspicion falling on Moscow among US intelligence agents.  One officer, Marc Polymeropoulos, told BBC News that CIA agents were suffering in silence after sev...

On Wednesday, Mother Jones and NBC News reported that a top Biden national security aide who is an expert on Russian cyber had given over half a million dollars to AIPAC in recent years through a family foundation. And the aide’s husband is on the AIPAC executive council in Baltimore. AIPAC is of course the leading Israel lobby group, which supports everything the rightwing Israeli government does, from persecuting Palestinians to threatening Iran. Mother Jones and NBC questioned Anne Neub...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Several Senate Republicans voted against Avril Haines for director of national intelligence, but voted to confirm John Ratcliffe to the same gig. That's bonkers

WASHINGTON - The woman tapped to lead the United States intelligence agencies following four years under President Donald Tr

Bumble temporarily suspended after people criticised it for identifying US capitol rioters By Sunday Jan 17, 2021 Supporters of President Donald Trump participate in a "Stop the Steal" protest outside the US capitol. Photo: Reuters/File Bumble temporarily suspended its political filter amid accusations that the users on the app tried to get a hold of conservatives who took part in last weeks Capitol insurrection Since the attack on the Capitol, the FBI has been asking the public for "tips an...