The New York Times ran a front page scoop in its Sunday paper that was clearly with the approval of the U.S. intelligence community which wanted to send a public message to Russia. U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid: The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in … Read more
The House Intelligence Committee is expected to hold a hearing on deep fake videos on June 13. A doctored video that appeared last month of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, was an example of a “cheap fake” and easily shown to be falsified. But Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said when … Read more
Earlier this year I warned you about Donald Trump’s ‘dezinformatsiya’ campaign in 2020, employing the propaganda techniques and tactics that his campaign learned from Russian intelligence operatives in 2016. One of the techniques which has been perfected since 2016, and which will become more prevalent in the 2020 campaign, is “deepfake” photos and videos. Last … Read more
While the media has been obsessed with trivialities such as Game of Thrones and royal babies this past week, you may have missed that House Democrats are aggressively passing the legislative agenda that Americans elected them to do. Republicans, however, are engaged in a policy of “total obstruction” to do nothing and thwart the will of … Read more
This past week, it was reported that Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling: Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials. And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately … Read more