Iran summoned the Swiss envoy on Thursday to protest against what it called "baseless" U.S. claims that Tehran has tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election in November.
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe argued on Monday that the Biden administration s approach to the Chinese government is flawed because it is "inconsistent" with what intelligence demands.
So is Trump still president?
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(Updated January 29, 2021, 6:22 am)
A few days ago, one of my brothers, a retired lawyer, sent me a message that asked, So is Trump still president?
Since the phrasing of the question implied the answer was neither simple nor straightforward, I gave the answer serious thought, from every angle I could think of, and came up with the following.
Because of unprecedented anomalies that havent been sufficiently resolved regarding the Nov. 3 election, there is still some question as to the elections outcome. Among the factors still at play are these:
The fact that on Nov. 3, several swing states conducted elections that were statutorily unlawful, according to the evidence (for example, large numbers of absentee and mail-in ballots were counted without being properly scrutinized as required by law, and there were enough of these unlawfully-counted ballots to turn a decisive victory for Trump in those states into a narrow alleged win for Bid
Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
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Biden, when interviewing Haines about the job, “made it clear we will provide truth to power…he’s been adamant about this,” she said at one point.
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Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Monday took issue with a remark by the White House press secretary, who said that the Biden administration’s approach to China would start out as one of “strategic patience” as it runs a series of interagency consultations and talks with allies before determining America’s posture going forward, with the former spy chief urging determined action on Beijing’s abuses, not foot-dragging.