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Gina Haspel Relies on Spy Skills to Connect With Trump. He Doesn’t Always Listen.
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Gina Haspel was trying to brief President Trump early in her tenure as the C.I.A. director, but he appeared distracted. Houseflies buzzing around the Oval Office were drawing ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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North Korean Dictator Seeks Russian Strongman for Support, Friendship
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With little progress to show from two nuclear summits with the U.S., North Korea is turning to an old friend—Moscow—as leader Kim Jong Un tries to chart a course toward winnin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Neil Bhatiya
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Frustration in US over Germany's defense spending shortfall
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There arguably would never have been a good moment for Berlin to renege on its planned increase in defense spending. But to do it in the run-up to NATO celebrating its 70th an...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump and the Golan: what it could mean, from Crimea to Kashmir
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When President Donald Trump reversed 50 years of U.S. policy Monday to proclaim U.S. recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights – strategic territory seized fr...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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U.S. Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist
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The Trump administration’s aggressive campaignto prevent countries from using Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications equipment in their next-generation wireless networks ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia, Europe and the USA
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor and James Townsend from the Center for a New American Security discuss varying perceptions and policies across Europe with regard to threats posed by Rus...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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“It Is Hardly Coincidental”: Did Michael Cohen Scare Trump Into Ghosting Putin?
En route to Buenos Aires on Thursday, Donald Trump had a change of heart. Less than an hour earlier, as he walked across the White House lawn, the president had told reporters...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How the Trump Administration Stepped Up Pursuit of WikiLeaks’s Assange
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Soon after he took over as C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo privately told lawmakers about a new target for American spies: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Intent on fi...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Two Eurocrats and Their Trans-Atlantic Quest to Woo Idaho
Henne Schuwer’s job is to understand Washington, D.C. Which is how he found himself in Boise, Idaho, last month. Schuwer, a towering figure with a bushy beard and a wry sense...
By Rachel Rizzo & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections
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The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that Amer...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Linked to Disruptive Industrial Control Malware
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In December, researchers spotted a new family of industrial control malware that had been used in an attack on a Middle Eastern energy plant. Known as Triton, or Trisis, the s...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China Misdirection
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Near the end of September, before the United Nations, President Donald Trump leveled an extraordinary charge: China was attempting to “meddle” and “interfere” in the upcoming ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Putin and Xi Outrank Trump in Global Confidence Poll
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Global opinion of U.S. President Donald Trump has sunk so low that the world now appears to have more confidence in the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
