Felix Sater Will Testify in Private About Trump Tower Moscow. He Says He Was Willing to Do it Publicly.
Donald Trump, Tevfik Arif, and Felix Sater attend the Trump Soho Launch Party on September 19, 2007 in New York.Mark Von Holden/WireImage Felix Sater, a real estate developer who helped Donald Trump secretly pursue a Trump-branded tower project in Moscow, will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday after months of delay, but the…
A Researcher Found a Bunch of Voting Machine Passwords Online
Kelly Owen/Zuma Press A little more than a week ago the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it was going to forensically analyze computer equipment associated with part of the 2016 elections in North Carolina in association with questions about Russian hacking. The news prompted an information security researcher to announce last week that he’d…
Trump Tries to Walk Back His Admission That He’d Accept Foreign Election Help
President Donald Trump on Friday attempted to clarify his astonishing admission that he’d be willing to accept damaging information on his political rivals from a foreign government—remarks Democrats, including 2020 candidates, say are clear evidence that the president has yet to learn from the Russia investigation. But in trying to settle the controversy, Trump on…
Mueller: Manafort Discussed Enlisting Trump to Aid Russia in Ukraine
Paul Manafort on June 15, 2018Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort held secret meetings with a business associate suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence that involved discussing handing Russia effective control of eastern Ukraine, special counsel Robert Mueller reported on Thursday. Those talks included the possibility of Trump…
Pelosi and Schumer Urge Mueller to Testify Publicly
ZUMA In a joint statement Thursday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called on Robert Mueller to publicly testify before Congress, citing what they called Attorney General William Barr’s “regrettably partisan handling” of the special counsel’s report into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. The statement came on the heels…
Everyone in the World Wants to Fix Facebook. Here’s Why No One Can.
Abaca Press / AP While the US holds congressional hearings to listen to tech giants explain they want to do better, other countries are passing and promising new laws that aim to take action against the virulent spread of disinformation, violence, and hate speech. Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May unrolled a proposal that outlines…