Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
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Monday, October 30, 2017

Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt On Fake News, Russia, And “Information Warfare”

October 30, 2017 Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt On Fake News , And “Information Warfare” 0 Comments


By Fast Company, Oct. 29, 2017

Ever since the 2016 presidential election, Alphabet, the tech giant that owns Google, has been under intense scrutiny to acknowledge its role in trafficking the Russia-backed disinformation campaign that potentially helped shape the outcome. In some of the most unequivocal comments yet, the company’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, recently acknowledged to Fast Company that the search giant didn’t do enough to safeguard its services against Russian manipulation.

“We did not understand the extent to which governments–essentially what the Russians did–would use hacking to control the information space. It was not something we anticipated strongly enough,” Schmidt said. “I worry that the Russians in 2020 will have a lot more powerful tools.”

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Monday, June 12, 2017

Attorney general to face questions on Comey firing, Russia

June 12, 2017 Attorney general to face questions on Comey firing , Russia 0 Comments


By Reuters, June 12, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will face questions about the firing of FBI Director James Comey and undeclared meetings with Russian officials at a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, though it was unclear whether he would testify in public or in private.

Sessions, an early and ardent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, would be the highest government official to testify before the Senate intelligence committee in its probe of allegations that Russia may have sought to interfere in the election.

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

General Says Army At High Risk In War Against China, Russia

March 17, 2016 General Says Army At High Risk In War Against China , Russia 0 Comments


By Richard Lardner, March 16, 2016 AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army's top general says military forces on the ground face a high level of risk if the United States gets into a large-scale conflict against a power such as Russia or China.

Testifying Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, constrained budgets and troop cuts have had a cumulative effect on the service.

Milley says the Army is ready to fight the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations.

But what Milley describes as a "great power war" against one or two of four countries - China, Russia, Iran and North Korea - would pose greater challenges. 

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Surprise: Judy Woodruff Pushes Hillary On E-Mails, Russia, Allies Attacking Biden, Sanders

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By Curtis Houck, Oct 08, 2015 NewsBusters

Embattled 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sat down for her latest interview on Wednesday and surprisingly, the liberal media’s questioner in Judy Woodruff of the PBS NewsHour (and Clinton Foundation donor) came prepared and hit Clinton on issues ranging from her e-mail scandal to the administration’s misjudgment of Russia’s global threat to allied super PACs attacking socialist Bernie Sanders and possible candidate Joe Biden.

While some of the questioning could have obviously gone farther or been more substantiative, it was a start and clean break from the gooey Clinton infomercial that viewers on NBC had to endure on Monday’s Today with Clinton and co-host Savannah Guthrie.
 
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The New Cold War

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Russia Warns Of 'New Military Confrontation' In Europe

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By Holly Ellyatt, Jun. 16, 2015, CNBC

Russia-West relations took a downturn this week when Moscow warned that any stationing of military equipment along its border with Europe could have "dangerous consequences" and President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would add more than 40 ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.

At a military and arms fair on Tuesday, Putin announced the addition of the intercontinental ballistic missiles which, he said, were able to overcome "even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems."

After the announcement, Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said that Putin's statement was one reason why the international military alliance was upping its deterrence measures.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued its warning on Monday against military presence on its western border after the New York Times and other media organizations reported that the U.S. had offered to store military equipment for up to 5,000 troops—including battle tanks and heavy weapons—in allied eastern European countries.

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