FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials. Comey’s support for the CIA’s conclusion reflects the fact that the leaders of the […]
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WikiLeaks Claim Disgruntled Democrat Was Source Of Hacked Emails
A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by ‘disgusted’ whisteblowers – and not hacked by Russia. Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off […]
CIA Says Russia Helped Trump Win Election
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with […]
Obama Seeks Intelligence Report Into Russian Hacking
Washington – President Obama has ordered American intelligence agencies to produce a full report on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, his homeland security adviser said on Friday. He also directed them to develop a list of “lessons learned” from the broad campaign the United States has accused Russia of carrying out to […]
Russian Propaganda Strategy Aided Trump’s Campaign
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation. Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including […]
Trump to Meet With Putin?
Donald J. Trump suggested on Monday that Hillary Clinton was too “tough” in her language about Russia, and said that if he won the election, he might meet with President Vladimir V. Putin before being sworn in. Mr. Trump made the remarks in an interview with the conservative radio host Michael Savage, who repeatedly affirmed […]
Putin says: ‘vote Trump or face nuclear war America’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of President Vladimir Putin who likes to compare himself to the U.S. Republican candidate. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery rhetoric, told Reuters in […]
Children professionally fighting MMA in Russia
It all started when Russian Mixed Martial Arts legend Fedor Emelianenko, who is currently the head of the MMA Union, the governing body of Russian MMA, released a statement on his social media account in which he criticized the organizers of an MMA event called “Grand Prix Akhmat 2016” that featuring MMA fights between children […]