In March, after a more than yearlong investigation into Russian active measures used during the 2016 presidential campaign, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released its final report. The report asserted that the primary goal of Russia’s covert influence campaign through social

Editor’s Note: This is the seventh installment of “The Brush Pass,” a column by Joshua Rovner (@joshrovner1) on intelligence, strategy, and statecraft. In early August 2016, the CIA delivered an astonishing report to President Barack Obama. Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth installment of “The Brush Pass,” a column by Joshua Rovner (@joshrovner1) on intelligence, strategy, and statecraft. Russia tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election. Its method was simple: steal emails from prominent Democrats and leak them to

For the last few months President Obama made his priority campaigning to get Hillary Clinton elected. Perhaps his efforts should have been focused on securing jobs for the American people since in essence his job, if he performed it according to his Constitutional duty, would be to serve the

With the massive violent demonstrations targeting President Elect, Donald Trump we do now definitely know one illuminating fact. Where as the US mainstream media has labeled these imbecilic protests as the product of disenchanted “Snowflake” Millennials, sore losers, and spontaneously assembled