Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to discuss the new indictments by the Mueller Probe. Will and Kyle debunk the lies that surround the claim "Russia hacked the election." We break down the responses to the new incidents by Leon Panetta, Rachel Maddow, Brian...
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America’s Victimless Crimes
I arrived at work one morning in 2010 to the news that one of my employees would be standing trial the next day. He was an all-around good guy that I joked with often, so I pulled him aside to talk. He had been caught with a “medium amount” of marijuana resulting in...
Will Congress and Trump Declare War on WikiLeaks?
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently passed its Intelligence Authorization Act for 2018 that contains a chilling attack on the First Amendment. Section 623 of the act expresses the “sense of Congress” that WikiLeaks resembles a “non-state hostile intelligence...
New Assertions, But No New Evidence, on Russian Hacking in NSA Leak
This week, there was a new, aggressively reported story on alleged Russian hacking, based on anonymous leaks from the US intelligence community. The latest story is different in some respects, but it still follows the normal script of this genre. New assertions are...
4/7/17 Jeffrey Carr on the pushback against CrowdStrike’s claims of Russian election hacking
Jeffrey Carr, an international cybersecurity consultant, discusses the low evidentiary standard the US government and media has used to make very serious accusations about Russian hacking of Ukrainian military software and, by extension, the DNC emails. Carr says that...
Rule by Thieves
The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against...
News Roundup 3/16/17
A federal judge in Hawaii blocks Trump's second travel ban. [Link] The Federal Reserve announced a .25% hike in interest rates. This is the third rate hike since 2006 and rates are now .75-1%. [Link] Four men were indicted for hacking Yahoo. Most of the charges the...
Assange: WikiLeaks will help tech firms defend against CIA hacking
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pledged Thursday to provide technology companies with the technical details needed to fix product flaws that were exposed when his organization published documents that apparently show how the Central Intelligence Agency hacks into...
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