Foreign Influence
Iran’s Election Provocation
The Iranians miscalculated. And they know it. During the 2024 election, the Islamic Republic not only engaged in political information warfare designed to defeat Donald Trump, but Tehran also contemplated...
TikTok Mastered Mindless Entertainment—and Is Being Punished for It
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted—swiftly and overwhelmingly—to ban the popular social media app TikTok unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests ownership within six months. In supporting the...
Pay to Play? FBI Investigates Retired Marine General for Qatar Lobbying
Court documents revealed on Tuesday that the FBI had seized the electronic data of retired Marine Gen. John R. Allen, a four-star general and former commander of U.S. and NATO forces...
Depoliticizing Intelligence: The Assessment of Foreign Influence on U.S. Elections
The recently released unclassified version of an intelligence assessment on foreign attempts to influence the 2020 U.S. election deserves more attention than it has gotten, as a corrective to still...
America’s Election Security Is Lagging Behind—It’s Dangerous
Hacking into voting machines remains far too easy. It is too soon to say for sure what role cybersecurity played in the 2020 Iowa caucuses, but the problems, which are still...
Alleged Pedophile Investigated by Mueller Indicted for Funneling Millions to Clinton from U.A.E.
George Nader, a key witness in the special counsel’s investigation who has been indicted on child sex crime charges, helped funnel millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to Hillary...
Chinese Recruitment Operation Targets U.S. Universities: Senate Report
A Chinese strategy called the “Thousand Talents Plan” (TPP) has recruited 7,000 researchers, including Nobel laureates, a bipartisan Senate report found. “Thousand Talents Plan” (TPP) has recruited thousands of academics...
Clinton Foundation Continues Downward Spiral
The Clinton Foundation’s revenue dropped to a 16-year low in 2018 and reported a third-straight year of losses, a trend that began in 2016 when Hillary Clinton was defeated by...
Why Did an Alaska Congressman Headbutt a Camera?
An Alaskan congressman head-butted a left-wing activist group’s camera after being asked about foreign interference in government elections, video shows. Republican Alaska Rep. Don Young, 86, slowly head-butted a camera...
‘Propagandistic’ Qatari-Funded Group Gave $30 Million to American Public Schools
A Qatar-funded organization has disbursed more than $30 million to U.S. public schools to fund Arabic language programs, reports show. Schools that accept grants from the Qatar Foundation International (QFI)...