In Defense of Tucker Carlson
In March 2017, I received a tip from a friend in the intelligence community that the British Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ the United Kingdom’s domestic and foreign spies had been asked by the CIA to spy on candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 U.S presidential election campaign. He elaborated that Trump’s claim that “someone tapped my wires” was essentially true. The tip was potentially explosive, so I ran it past two other friends in the intelligence community, and they confirmed it.
When I went public with this, all hell broke loose in my professional life. The British spies denied spying on Trump, who by now was the president of the United States. Former Obama administration folks denied asking the Brits to do this and denied that it was done.
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FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 file photo, Jeremy Fleming, head of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)
LONDON (AP) Western countries risk losing control of technologies that are key to internet security and economic prosperity to nations like China and Russia if they don’t act to deal with the threat, one of the U.K.’s top spy chiefs warned Friday.
“Significant technology leadership is moving east” and causing a conflict of interests and values, Jeremy Fleming, director of government electronic surveillance agency GCHQ, said in a speech.
Singling out China as a particular threat, he said the country’s “size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system.”
How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware hackers
In the US last year, ransomware struck more than 100 federal, state and municipal agencies, and more than 500 hospitals and other care centers
By Frank Bajak / AP, BOSTON
A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it.
One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded and sometimes employed by Russian intelligence agencies, according to security researchers, US law enforcement and now the administration of US President Joe Biden.
Biden transition tests the ‘special relationship’ between the US and UK
As Washington shifts its focus to Asia, London might finally have to come to terms with its status as a partner among many others
By Max Hastings / Bloomberg Opinion
US presidential transitions, even when they are less fraught than this one, prompt more apprehension among US allies than among its enemies. This is especially true of the UK.
The British government is exerting itself to show US president-elect Joe Biden and his incoming administration that the UK remains a useful ally.
Last month, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed to a remarkably generous supplementary funding deal for the British Armed Forces, of US$22 billion over four years.