Pakistan’s Looming Crisis Could Come at a Cost
If Pakistan’s army and government continue to block regional and national elections, they will increase the scale of Imran Khan’s eventual victory. Fear of Imran […] More
Posts Tagged ‘elections’
What Taiwan’s Election Results Really Mean
OPINION — The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) decisive win of all but five of the twenty-two municipal, city and county elections in Taiwan on November […] More
Elections Protect a messy, but better Alternative
OPINION – On the eve of the US midterm elections, it is a good time to reflect on cyber threats to our political process, particularly […] More
What Iran’s Election Tells Us About Where It’s Headed
Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday in a move that is expected to bolster the conservative legacy of the country’s supreme […] More
Using Law to Confront Malign Foreign Influence
Peter Pascucci is a commander in the United States Navy and Kurt Sanger is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps. They have […] More
Preparing for Elections in the Midst of a Pandemic
OPINION – What’s happening today with COVID-19, from global healthcare systems under extreme stress to the far-reaching economic impact, will be felt for years to […] More
The Russian Obsession
OPINION — President Trump, this past week, has shown that he is just as serious today about undercutting the intelligence community’s January 6, 2017, conclusion […] More
How Will Investigations Into Russian Interference Move Forward?
OPINION — President Trump is actively trying to excise the criminal fallout from investigations into Moscow’s 2016 covert support for his presidential election and have […] More
The Man in the Kremlin is Still Smiling, So What Have We Really Learned?
Cipher Brief Expert and former CIA Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, Mark Kelton wrote for The Cipher Brief back in 2017 that, The Man in the […] More
Malicious Hacking Targets U.S. Political Organizations
Bottom Line Up Front: The success of Russia’s meddling in 2016 U.S. election ensures that Moscow will employ similar disinformation efforts as 2020 approaches. […] More
Zimbabwe: A Double-Standard Undermining U.S. Interests
OPINION — I want to talk about an African election. It was 2009 in Botswana and the ruling party, in power since independence, was not shy […] More
The Russia Threat is More Comprehensive than you Think
Russia. We hear and read about it every day in the mainstream media, but the news seems almost exclusively focused on the various investigations of […] More
Sadr Prepares for Role as Kingmaker
Cipher Brief Note: Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr assured Iraqis this past weekend that the next Iraqi government will be ‘inclusive’. Al-Sadr, who once fought U.S. […] More
Behind the Curtain of Vladimir Putin’s “Democracy”
In the latter part of the 18th century, not too long after an earlier annexation of Crimea by Russia, a Russian governor by the name […] More
Iraq Elections: With ISIS in Rearview, Iran Lies Ahead
Bottom Line: On paper, Iraq’s democratic electoral system promises rare, fair representation in a region where politics is dominated by monarchies and authoritarian regimes. But […] More
WikiLeaks and the Trump Campaign: Another Tree in the Forest
The revelation that Donald Trump Jr. was in contact with WikiLeaks throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is just the latest in a long catalog […] More
The U.S. Struggles against Russian Cyber Disinformation
As the Kremlin wages an unyielding disinformation campaign against the United States and its European allies, Washington is still reeling from Moscow’s interference in the […] More
‘The Disruption of Fact’: How the Kremlin Leverages Disorder
There is no “quick and easy fix” for the United States to deal with Russian disinformation and influence operations. Steve Hall, a former senior CIA […] More
Senate Will Look for ‘Any Hint of Collusion’ between Trump and Russia
The question of alleged Kremlin collusion with the Trump campaign is “still open,” the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday. The investigation is […] More
All Eyes on Baghdad’s Response to Kurdish Independence Vote
Today, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq is holding a historic referendum on Kurdish independence. Kurds are widely expected to overwhelmingly vote Yes, a […] More
Russia Pulling Strings on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Just a few days away from the German federal election, a widely held opinion is that Germany has been spared from interference by Moscow. German […] More
General Chaos is the Kremlin’s Favorite Candidate
There can be no doubt that over the past ten years, Russia has honed its active measures operations – or covert action in U.S. intelligence […] More
Moscow Takes U.S. Meddling Tactics to German Vote
In less than a week, on September 24th, the German public will vote in the country’s general elections – not only to determine who will […] More
Russia Blends Cyber Attacks with Information War
Russia has shown it is both willing and capable of using cyber capabilities to interfere in the West’s democratic elections. With the German elections coming […] More