Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Corruption by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his administration in Moscow has produced tens of billions of dollars worth of illicit funds for the Russian leader and his top aides, according to U.S. officials. Putin is estimated to have amassed a fortune worth at least an estimated $28 billion through […]
NewsmaxWorld.com The noose is tightening around Zhou Yongkang, a former head of China’s domestic security entangled in a vast corruption investigation, and the highest-ranking figure to become embroiled scandal in the history of the communist state. Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion Yuan ($14.5 billion) from Zhou’s relatives and associates, two […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The White House sharply curbed a major counterterrorism drill scheduled for Tuesday in Washington that was designed to test the federal government response to threats of car bombs attacks and a chemical weapons strike on the Metro subway system. The exercise, code named Eagle Horizon 2014, was cut back instead […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Damage to U.S. national security caused by NSA contractor Edward Snowden will take decades to repair, the White House official in charge of cyber security said Friday. “Make no mistake: We are going to be dealing with the fallout from that for all of your careers, and the impact that […]
Bill Gertz, The Ring, The Washington Times U.S. intelligence officials say Russia plans to force Ukraine to adopt a scheme to federalize and turn its southern neighbor into a quasi-province of the Russian Federation. Additionally, recent assessments of Moscow’s motives indicate that a large-scale military intervention to take over Ukraine is a possible plan of […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China is waging political warfare against the United States as part of a strategy to drive the U.S. military out of Asia and control seas near its coasts, according to a Pentagon-sponsored study. A defense contractor report produced for the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon’s think tank on future […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China’s main internal security and police university is training hackers for cyber attacks, according to new information obtained by the U.S. government. The People’s Public Security University in Beijing, a part of the Ministry of Public Security that trains all of China’s police and internal security troops, has several units […]
Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times Russia’s military forces are not the only problem for Ukraine: Reports from the region indicate that Russian saboteurs are working to foment instability and increase pro-Russian sentiment, especially in the eastern part of the former Soviet republic. Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko told reporters Monday in Kiev that […]
LIGNET.com Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday and again on Tuesday that his connections have led him to believe that Flight 370 landed in Pakistan with the help of the flight’s two pilots . . . McInerney said, “When the U.S. Navy quits their search, […]
LIGNET.com The Malaysian government reportedly is investigating the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 avoided radar detection and landed in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border inside Taliban-controlled territory, according to the UK Independent . . . Pakistan dismissed the idea that a Boeing 777 could land undetected inside the country but promised to work […]