Egypt’s Sisi hails President Trump: ‘Nothing better than to counter evil’

Egypt’s Sisi hails President Trump: ‘Nothing better than to counter evil’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump has a “true understanding” of Mideast terrorism and what it takes to defeat it, Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi said on April 5. “There is a true understanding of realities in the region,” Sisi told Fox News in an interview, following his meeting with Trump […]

N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 A North Korean hacking group, known as Lazarus, has launched a global digital robbery ring that is targeting banks, casinos and trading firms dealing in digital currency, a group of cyber forensics analysts said. A report released this week by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based cybersecurity and virus protection firm, […]

Israel questions Syria’s claim that chemical attack caused by strike on rebel depot

Israel questions Syria’s claim that chemical attack caused by strike on rebel depot

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 2017 Israel believes the chemical weapons attack on a Syrian rebel-held town was approved at the highest levels of the Assad regime and doubts the explanation from Moscow and Damascus. The official report said the town was exposed to deadly sarin gas after a conventional Syrian airstrike hit a rebel-held […]

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Fresh evidence of the Obama administration’s political influence operations emerged on April 3 with the news that then-national security adviser Susan Rice was behind the unmasking of Trump associates. “Rice certainly wasn’t politically naive about the political uses of intelligence information,” the New York Post noted in an editorial. […]

Report: Susan Rice ordered detailed intelligence spreadsheets on Trump associates

Report: Susan Rice ordered detailed intelligence spreadsheets on Trump associates

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Susan Rice, national security adviser under former President Barack Obama, requested intelligence agencies to provide her detailed lists of phone calls involving Donald Trump and his associates during the 2016 presidential campaign, a former U.S. attorney said. “What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. […]

Reporter: Susan Rice scoop not from intel sources but newsroom informants

Reporter: Susan Rice scoop not from intel sources but newsroom informants

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 The writer who broke the story on Susan Rice being behind the unmasking of Trump associates who were surveilled during the 2016 campaign said he got the information from his own newsroom spies. “I didn’t get it from the intelligence community,” Mike Cernovich said. “Everybody’s trying to figure out […]

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Russia has unleashed a torrent of hackers, Internet trolls and fake news reports aimed at undermining American democracy and the U.S. has done little to defend against it, cyber intel specialists said during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. Eugene Rumer, former U.S. national intelligence […]

Democrats from birth? Party seeks to erase registration barriers

Democrats from birth? Party seeks to erase registration barriers

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Democrats like to say that the more voters there are, the better their chances are. So, why not register Americans to vote at birth? It’s a novel idea from a local Democratic leader in Washington state, and a Democratic Party shell-shocked at losing elections is said by insiders to […]

North Korea crisis tops agenda at key Trump summit with China’s Xi

North Korea crisis tops agenda at key Trump summit with China’s Xi

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 As pro-China lobbyists geared up for this week’s critical summit in south Florida, the White House weighed in as well. President Donald Trump said in an interview that the U.S. will solve the North Korea problem on its own if China does not reign in the rogue Kim Jong-Un […]

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 The world now knows spies infested every part of the 2016 U.S. election and its aftermath. But which intel-scam has the most serious ramifications for U.S. national security? The spotlight is now shifting from the major stars of the drama such as FBI Director James Comey to his deputy […]