This morning Kurt Eichenwald reported out a story in Newsweek on Russian interference in the US election. Specifically how Russia has been feeding information into the US through selective leaks of both real and doctored information (kompromat) to influence the election, as well as damage the US, its standing in the world, NATO, and the …
The Maskirovka Slips Part III: Kompromat
(Figure 1: Maskirovka Principles) Back on October 20th, Thomas Rid reported out an excellent piece of long form journalism on Russian meddling in the US election at Esquire. Rid’s piece specifically focused on kompromat or compromising materials and hacking. Specifically releasing blended real and fabricated materials to achieve one’s strategic goals. Rid’s piece zeros in …
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The Syrian Civil War and No Fly Zones
Secretary Clinton has stated several times that she would consider, if elected President, a no fly zone (NFZ) over Syria and has implied this would be part of a humanitarian assistance strategy to bring relief to the citizens of Aleppo. At the last two debates she specifically referenced Omar Daqneesh, the shell shocked 5 year …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Relieved to Be A Democrat
This must be said, and @ezraklein said it: "Hillary Clinton has humbled Donald Trump, and she did it her way." https://t.co/cBmbahIIm2 — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 20, 2016 She looks like a President, and he looks like the kind of guy the Secret Service keeps away from Presidents.#debatenight — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 20, 2016 …
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The Maskirovka Slips Part 2: Gentlemen I Thought I Told You to Synchronize Your Watches
More circumstantial evidence linking the hacks of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails, as well as the DNC and DCCC hacks, back to Russia has emerged. RT (Russia Today) went public, both by tweet and with reporting, on the most recent dump of Podesta’s emails before Wikileaks actually posted them. Earlier today, @RT_com tweeted & pubbed …
The Maskirovka Slips
(Maskirovka Principles) Newsweek‘s Kurt Eichenwald has just broken a story pertaining to Russian Intelligence’s hacking, forging, and/or altering documents to influence the US election in collusion with Wikileaks. I have written some really disturbing stories about Donald Trump. The one that is minutes away is even leaving my mouth agape. — Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October …
Hashtag Radicalization and Terrorism*
I think it is important to focus a bit not so much on the specifics of today, but rather on the larger phenomenon within which it fits. I’ve mentioned in comments to other posts that I’m working my way through a research project on the process of radicalization, specifically for those that self radicalize into …