Diving Deep into the GRU Indictment

16 Mar 2019

  One of the most impressive indictments to come out of the Special Counsel's Office (SCO) in July 2018 recounts a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign launched by two teams of…

Unanswered Questions: Turkey and the Flynn Connection, Pt 1

18 Dec 201828 Jan 2019

Halfway into the Steele dossier, an ominous sounding memo appears. It's found on page 13, and dated 5 August 2016. The heading is "Russia/USA: Growing Backlash in Kremlin to DNC…

Unanswered Questions: Putin as Bogeyman

17 Dec 20182 Feb 2019

Russian president Vladimir Putin's name appears throughout the dossier composed by Christopher Steele, starting with the very first memo, dated 20 June 2016. By August, after the Russia-backed WikiLeaks release…

Meanwhile in Berlin

24 Aug 201814 Feb 2019

Last Saturday, the president of the Russian Federation traveled to Berlin at the invite of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. By all appearances, the two heads of state engaged in civil…

We Lost. Putin Won. For Now.

18 Aug 201829 Dec 2018

The day after the 2016 presidential election, I began writing about the cyber war that Putin won. There was no solid evidence of such a war. The president of the…

Russian Oil Comes To Florida – Part 1

2 Aug 201728 Jan 2019

In 1991, a married couple from Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia immigrated to the United States. They left their home on the banks of the Volga River to settle at…