Wittingly or unwittingly, Trump has made the Republican Party his own.
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Zuma welcomed the judgment while claiming he did nothing wrong wittingly.
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But both have also trafficked, wittingly or not, in anti-Semitic tropes.
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New Oriental and Dipont deny condoning or wittingly engaging in application fraud.
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It seems you agreed, wittingly or unwittingly, to participate in a drama.
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Wittingly or unwittingly, that may be the smartest aspect of the Trump announcement.
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Wittingly or not, Trump is delivering on the core promise of the presidency.
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It was not clear whether Mr. Trump wittingly disclosed such highly classified information.
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They contacted Trump campaign officials, who never wittingly aided them in that crime.
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To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.
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And under Trump, it's not difficult to imagine that they might do so wittingly.
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There is still no evidence of anyone "wittingly" or knowingly colluding with these Russians.
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Corbyn, wittingly or not, has fed this poison, as his party is now realizing.
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Some right-wing Americans appear, wittingly or not, to be receptive to that result.
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So-called "money mules" may also be involved in these scams, either wittingly or unwittingly.
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That has led to unfounded speculation that she is wittingly or unwittingly a Russian asset.
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Wittingly or not, Trump seems to be hastening the arrival of a post-American world.
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" In the interview, Barr claimed she "never would have wittingly called any black person, a monkey.
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MACCALLUM: And he said yes, but not wittingly or unwittingly, so absolutely not was his answer.
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Wittingly or not, parents are sometimes fearful in a way that puts their children on edge.
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I think wittingly, because right now they are putting up something that they know is false.
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Last night, by saying "learn to code," Nunes — again, wittingly or unwittingly — parroted one of those ideas.
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But it's possible that Thompson, wittingly or not, traded his on-court talents for something more powerful.
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She admits she was wrong but insists she would never "wittingly" say such things about African-Americans.
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The man whom Oprah Winfrey called "America's doctor" had become, wittingly or not, Mr. Trump's spin doctor.
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In addition, Congress should hold companies responsible when they contribute to this threat, whether wittingly or unwittingly.
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Washington (CNN)Wittingly or not, President Donald Trump spent the Presidents Day weekend doing the Kremlin's work.
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The remaining question could be whether Trump wittingly obstructed an investigation into unwitting contacts with the Russians.
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Or was he — wittingly or unwittingly — the man who led law enforcement authorities to Guzman once again?
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Even the foundation seemed to recognize that it had, wittingly or unwittingly, undermined the self-governance ArbCom represents.
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Trying to think about all the contracts I've half-wittingly signed away to tech companies is mind boggling.
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I never would have wittingly called any black person, [I would never had said] they are a monkey.
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"[Comey] became the leading Republican political operative in the country, wittingly or unwittingly," she said after the election.
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And if it involved working with Americans whether wittingly or unwittingly that needs to be a part of it.
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"It seems you agreed, wittingly or unwittingly, to participate in a drama," Republican Devin Nunes told the Intelligence Committee witnesses.
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The Kremlin, wittingly or not, serving as a kind of pro-Trump Super PAC, albeit one with access to hackers.
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Photo: GizmodoReader, let me ask you an honest question: When's the last time you ate a bug, wittingly or otherwise?
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Clinton over Mr. Trump and coordinating with Russian intelligence operatives, wittingly or not, to maximize the damage to her campaign.
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Wittingly or no, she takes her mother's distinctive bicycle out of the garage and rides it to a nearby cemetery.
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Mr Sessions said he had not misled them wittingly because his conversations with Mr Kislyak had not been about the campaign.
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Pelosi also slammed Trump for not distancing himself from the episode, saying he is "wittingly or unwittingly" complicit in the matter.
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The same year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that the NSA did not "wittingly" collect communications from Americans.
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Pence either wittingly lied to the public about Flynn's misconduct during the campaign and transition, or allowed himself to be used.
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But the vibe remains, wittingly or not, almost nostalgic for a time when the poetry of masculine bravado held special mystique.
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And if there is somebody on his team who wittingly or unwittingly is working with the Russians, that is super serious.
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Will they yield to him, wittingly or unwittingly granting him outsize status as a Democratic superdelegate who can influence their nomination?
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Decisive presidents do not wittingly cede their constitutional responsibility to Congress, particularly when existential questions of national security are at stake.
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Kaspersky Antivirus, according to media reports, may have separately been wittingly or unwittingly involved in incidents of Russian spies stealing classified data.
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It took four months of meetings about the pros and cons, like worries that someone would unwittingly (or wittingly) introduce a vulnerability.
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Medical acts fall within the purview of physicians who now find themselves wittingly or unwittingly cast in the role of execution adviser.
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In one scheme, offenders may exceed contribution limits by spreading the money through multiple individuals, using their names, either wittingly or unwittingly.
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Yet, having put his thumb in the dyke of America's rule of law, wittingly or otherwise, Mr Sessions refuses to withdraw it.
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"I thought it was unwittingly, but clearly they wittingly were accomplices and enablers of false information to go across Facebook," she said.
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Wittingly or not, Trump's yoking of nationalistic rhetoric and less redistribution fits a larger political pattern, one with potentially powerful psychological underpinnings.
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And that data—information provided wittingly and unwittingly by all of us—was the substance on which Facebook grew fat and prospered.
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He said he saw intelligence suggesting that Russia wanted to use Trump campaign officials, wittingly or not, to help in that effort.
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Tech companies are simply never going to wittingly employ a system that leaves its customers—and thereby its own brand—open to attack.
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All of these appeals, wittingly or not, began to attract certain kinds of voters to the Republican Party -- those with an authoritarian worldview.
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Wittingly or otherwise, it appears that Washington — enervated and perhaps in want of an "out" — is closer to entertaining greater leniency toward Pyongyang.
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Using his power of attorney that Killen — wittingly or not — had ceded to him, Stern dissolved his chapter of the KKK in 2016.
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It appears that the investigators eventually concluded that Mr. Martin was not the source of the Shadow Brokers' material, at least not wittingly.
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This success is all the sweeter because Mr. Trump, wittingly or not, has aided and abetted Russia's efforts every step along the way.
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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper famously (or infamously) told Congress the National Security Agency did not "wittingly" collect data on Americans.
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These changes have been a boon to the United States, which the Trump administration has wittingly and perhaps unwittingly done much to shape.
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We need to know if the president, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is acting against American interests and in the national interests of Russia.
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But they continued to post after he was in jail, and investigators determined he wasn't behind Shadow Brokers, at least wittingly, per the Times.
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The information that feeds these real-time predictions comes from users who have (wittingly and unwittingly) granted Google consent to use their anonymized data.
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Most significantly, students are, wittingly or not, becoming vocal opponents of free speech by demanding protections and safe spaces from offensive words and behaviors.
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But many Turks accuse him of serving the Gulenist cause, wittingly or not, during his tenure as editor of Taraf, a (now-defunct) newspaper.
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But some people may have unwittingly, or perhaps, wittingly welcome to the Russian involvement in the campaign that Donald Trump didn&apost know about it.
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Jack, who denies wittingly taking a banned substance, said her second 'B' sample had confirmed the presence in her sample of Ligandrol, an anabolic agent.
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It is the ongoing concern over the alleged use of the FBI, wittingly or unwittingly, to further political opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign.
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Donald Trump, from his first day in the White House, has been ruling, wittingly or not, in a commandeering style unlike any in American history.
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The risk would grow exponentially if an insider, wittingly or not, shares passwords, inserts infected thumb drives or otherwise facilitates illicit access to critical computers.
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That's in addition to the revelation last week that Facebook was for years wittingly letting kids make charges to their parents' credit cards without their knowledge.
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The highest-profile student there who, wittingly or otherwise, allegedly benefited from the scheme was influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli, daughter to Full House actress Lori Loughlin.
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Jack, who denies wittingly taking a banned substance, on Sunday said her 'B' sample had confirmed the presence in her sample of Ligandrol, an anabolic agent.
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De Ligt's superagent Mino Raiola, the Juventus sporting director Pavel Nedved, and the team's former center back Fabio Cannavaro all, wittingly or unwittingly, played a part.
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Indeed, however much these advisors may seek to wrap themselves in the presumed messages of Wealth, they wittingly ignore the depth and complexity of Smith's thought.
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Pelosi herself said the Silicon Valley giant's refusal to take down a false video shows that it "wittingly" allowed Russian misinformation to affect the 2016 election.
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Which was the point: WikiLeaks really, really hates Hillary Clinton, and — wittingly or not — played an important role in a Russian plan to attack her campaign.
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"Individuals are liberally giving up their privacy, you know, sometimes wittingly and sometimes unwittingly as they give information to companies or to sales reps," he said.
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CARL BERNSTEIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: We now have to figure out how to deal with the president of the United States who wittingly or unwittingly has been compromised.
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When activist investors like Nelson Peltz and Bill Ackman take on big-name companies like Procter & Gamble and Chipotle, they are, wittingly or not, following in his footsteps.
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This is just one example of the blatant questions and comments older men wittingly or unwittingly ask young females in business without understanding the gravity of the sexism involved.
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Wittingly or not, Mr. Trump's representatives have used a subtle psychological strategy to defend his falsehoods: They encourage people to reflect on how the falsehoods could have been true.
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But none of these interpretations render it anything close to unlistenable, carried as it is, like the whole wittingly makeshift collection, by her still-fragile melodies and still-pure voice.
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Whether any Americans, wittingly or unwittingly, engaged with Russians who were trying to interfere in the presidential election went to "the core" of the special counsel's inquiry, Mr. Weissmann said.
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The Russians "try to get individuals, including US persons, to act on their behalf, either wittingly or unwittingly," Brennan told Congress last May in testimony explaining how the counterintelligence investigation began.
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" But if Trump's consciously rational and calibrated attack upon North Korea were wittingly or unwittingly launched against an irrational enemy leadership, the response from Kim Jong Un could be "all out.
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Still, whether wittingly or not, Trump's attack on globalization has struck at profound failings of American economic policy, and liberals who might otherwise dismiss Trump would do well to acknowledge them.
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Nobody needs to love liberalism to grasp, a year later, that this cost-benefit analysis was demented, and that the country made an error in embracing the logic, wittingly or otherwise.
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And he's made it clear that his attorney general and deputy AG were used, wittingly or unwittingly, as patsies to invent a post facto reason to fire someone Trump wanted gone.
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Those incidents raise the possibility that Mr. Trump has wittingly sought to advance Russian interests, but the evidence is merely circumstantial and consequently suggests low to moderate confidence in that assessment.
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Once and for all, Putin must be unmasked and there must be visible deterrence to him, his operatives and any American from working wittingly or unwittingly to undermine or destabilize our democracy.
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What Gingrich did, wittingly or not, was to remove a basic structure from Washington community life that had served as a civilizing force in our government for over a century: crosscutting ties.
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But if Trump's consciously-rational and calibrated attack upon North Korea were wittingly or unwittingly launched against an irrational enemy leadership, the response from Pyongyang could then be an all out retaliation.
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Anachronism, done well and wittingly, brings with it a cautionary kick, alerting us to the fact that the drama we're watching, though steeped in the period, is not quite of the period.
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Remember this: When you hear excessively divisive talk in the face of real threats or societal challenges, an intelligence agenda of countries that don't like us is being fulfilled, wittingly or unwittingly.
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Consider them, instead, the grandchildren of Du Bois's "talented 10th," taking their cues, wittingly or unwittingly, from the challenge that he and the civil rights activists of the '60s issued to black leadership.
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On collusion with Russia: Brennan said when he left office January 20 this year he had "unresolved questions" in his mind about whether U.S. persons may have been unwittingly or wittingly helping Russia.
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) this weekend went public with its findings that the firm had, wittingly or unwittingly, helped clients evade or avoid tax, launder money or mask its origins.
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But in the process, he has wittingly or not claimed back power for the president from the Justice Department, which has sought to expand its influence over the pardon process in recent years.
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So again, the new thing here is not that Democrats paid Fusion GPS, and so helped -- wittingly or unwittingly -- to bankroll Steele's work, but that it was, specifically, Clinton's campaign and the DNC.
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In 2016, American intelligence officials began to realize the scope of Russia's efforts when they gathered intelligence suggesting that Moscow wanted to use Trump campaign officials, wittingly or not, to help sow chaos.
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" But if Mr. Trump's consciously rational and calibrated attack upon North Korea were wittingly or unwittingly launched against an irrational enemy leadership, the response from Kim Jong Un could then be "all out.
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Mr. Horowitz found that the F.B.I. had adequate reason in 2016 to lawfully open a full investigation into whether Trump campaign associates were wittingly or unwittingly helping Russia to interfere in the election.
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Mr. Horowitz had found that the F.B.I. acted appropriately in opening the inquiry in 2016 into whether the Trump campaign wittingly or unwittingly helped Russia influence the election in Donald J. Trump's favor.
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Schiff said he's particularly interested in what Americans the FBI investigated as potentially wittingly or unwittingly acting as agents of a foreign power, what the bureau's conclusions were, and whether any investigations remain open.
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These clashing perceptions have roiled the community over the past year, with the administration falling squarely into the camp that final clubs and all they represent, wittingly or not, do not belong at Harvard.
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Did some of the characters in Mr. Trump's circle seek to ratchet up their status or fatten their wallets by sucking up to Russians and wittingly or unwittingly expose themselves to foreign intelligence operatives?
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But Mr. Weissmann told the judge that the question of whether any American, wittingly or unwittingly, engaged with Russians who were interfering in the election relates to "the core" of the special counsel's inquiry.
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Whether they wittingly allowed the data to find its way into the hands of "bounty hunters" or not, they surmised, perhaps correctly, that the liability on their end, were that to happen, would be negligible.
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Wittingly or unwittingly, the president and his allies are helping to propagate another disinformation campaign — one that will most likely aid Russia, yet again, in its efforts to intervene corruptly in the American electoral process.
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For Clinton and her allies, Comey's mistake is further evidence of his botched handling of the investigation into her private email server and the role he played -- wittingly or unwittingly -- in shaping the 2016 election.
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Critics have already expressed fears that the Obama administration will be taken in by the Nusra Front's deception and naively (or wittingly) use the political ruse as an excuse to stop bombing the Nusra Front.
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As vision is the most used sense among human beings, being able to track and measure it digitally will have a great impact on how we make our intentions known to computers, wittingly or unwittingly.
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Mr. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, said Tuesday that he became concerned last year that the Russian government was trying to influence members of the Trump campaign to act — wittingly or unwittingly — on Moscow's behalf.
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It was initially dubbed the "Million Woman March," but the moniker was quickly dumped when critics accused them of having (wittingly or unwittingly) poached the name from the African-American marches of the same name.
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Four golden eagles are getting military training for combat against battery-charged drones that just about anybody can buy in a local store, and fly into security-sensitive zones such as presidential palaces, wittingly or not.
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It can occur when everything laid out for you, and all of the things that you have half-wittingly accepted, meet a desire to be something more than the skeletal image of your own dead dreams.
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Participating locations this year will include the Brick, JACK, the Doxsee Theater and Vital Joint, as well as a superstore that will play host, wittingly or otherwise, to an immersive, choose-your-own-adventure show. theexponentialfestival.
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This, plus a record of similar moves that even led the Justice Department to open a counterintelligence investigation into the President, will add fuel to concerns that the President may be wittingly or unwittingly helping Russia.
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Now each of us constructs a custom informational universe, wittingly (we choose to go to the sources that uphold our existing beliefs and thus flatter us) or unwittingly (our app algorithms do the driving for us).
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The United States faces counterintelligence challenges from both foreign spy services and insider threats — government employees and contractors who use their access to intelligence networks to "wittingly or unwittingly" hurt American security — according to the document.
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"By continuing to hold rituals and events in Lee Chapel, the university, wittingly or not, sustains the Shrine of the South and the memory of Lee as a commander of the Confederate Army," the report said.
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" Brennan was speaking to the House intelligence committee on the extent of Russia's meddling in the 2016 elections and possible ties to the Trump campaign, where he was asked about how Moscow recruits sources "wittingly and unwittingly.
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Those interactions left him "concerned" about the possibility of collusion, Brennan said, arguing that the information "raised questions in my mind about whether Russia was able to gain the cooperation of those individuals" — whether wittingly or unwittingly.
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The comments came after Clapper told CNN's John Berman that he was not lying when he denied to Wyden and the Senate panel in 85033 that the National Security Agency "wittingly" collected data on millions of Americans.
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"I told Bob Mueller Tuesday that I would never do anything wittingly or unwittingly that veered over into his lane," Gowdy said in an interview with a handful of reporters in the Oversight panel's cavernous hearing room.
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Electoral politics in Western democracies present an especially inviting target, as a variety of politicians, political parties, media outlets, think tanks and influencers are readily manipulated, wittingly and unwittingly, or even bought outright by Russian intelligence operatives.
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The clearest path forward Baker sees is prosecuting screwdriving as a cyber crime, under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which encompasses all wittingly unauthorized access of a computer as well as the filching of its contents.
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Brennan on Tuesday told lawmakers that he had passed along intelligence showing contacts between Trump officials and the Russians that "raised questions about whether Russia was able to gain the cooperation of those individuals" — whether wittingly or unwittingly.
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"This network was in the early stages of building an audience and was operated by local nationals — some wittingly and some unwittingly — in Ghana and Nigeria on behalf of individuals in Russia," Facebook explained in its blog post.
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A series of nuclear standoffs with the likes of North Korea and Iran, whose cost-benefit analyses in no way resemble Moscow's back in those good-old Cold War days, is hardly a scenario we should wittingly embrace.
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Wittingly or not, they and their departments have been co-opted into a campaign to extradite an innocent man to almost certain death, in order to make a racist talking point appear to be slightly less of a fiction.
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Not only would that debate break the autopilot that so often guides the nation's foreign policy — it would also afford Congress an avenue to take back some of the war powers it has wittingly handed over to the executive branch.
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Could Forever 21 have even wittingly sold the rape-related men's shirt to stir up controversy (since the same phrase wouldn't have been blasted for peddling the same message if it were on a women's shirt), as The Cut posited?
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Even New Yorkers who don't care much about city politics — and only about 435,000 Democrats voted in this year's primary — tend to accede to the notion that every New York mayor puts his stamp on an era, wittingly or not.
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A Medicare official who would speak only on background said that the limit for monthly high doses was intended not only to catch doctors who overprescribe, but also to monitor patients who, wittingly or not, accumulate opioid prescriptions from several doctors.
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But a counterintelligence investigation can yield something even more important: an intelligence assessment of how likely it is that someone — in this case, the president — is acting, wittingly or unwittingly, under the influence of or in collaboration with a foreign power.
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But reaching very high confidence that Mr. Trump is wittingly doing Moscow's bidding would require something we don't have and would not expect to have, like an email from Vladimir Putin ordering Mr. Trump to fire the F.B.I. director James Comey.
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We were able to easily identify Americans who work for the Secret Service and the local high school, their lives and movements an open book simply because they downloaded an app on their smartphone and enabled — wittingly or unwittingly — location services.
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And even though Lefty Out There, another local artist, made a chair for charity inscribed with "If you taka my space, I breaka you face", you cannot slash the tyres or threaten someone who, wittingly or not, slides into your space anyway.
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Most remarkable was an exchange between Ron Wyden and Coats, one that hearkens back to a similar famous exchange in 2013 between Wyden and Coats's predecessor, James Clapper, in which Clapper claimed NSA could not "wittingly" collect the communications of millions of Americans.
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Doss: In order to think clearly about the Russia investigation, it's really important to keep in mind the full context, and to differentiate between what the Russian government did, and whether there were any Americans who -- wittingly or unwittingly -- assisted in that effort.
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At a Republican debate in South Carolina on February 13th Donald Trump accused George W. of wittingly invading Iraq on a false prospectus and failing to "keep America safe"—the phrase apologists for the former president are most likely to use when defending his record.
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Federal investigators have been taking a closer look at the Trump campaign's data analytics operation, which was supervised by Kushner, officials say, and are examining whether Russian operatives used people associated with the campaign -- wittingly or unwittingly -- to try to help Russia's own data targeting.
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In the 2014 Gaza Strip war between Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations and Israel, UNRWA facilities—including schools and clinics—served wittingly or unwittingly as weapons depots and launch pads or as "shields" against retaliation for attacks staged from adjacent properties.
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Wittingly or otherwise, the former Pope, Benedict XVI, gave campaigners like Ms Newkirk a fresh argument (one she frequently uses) when he observed in a book about Jesus that there are no explicit references to animals in the New Testament accounts of the birth of Jesus.
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But by urging only probation and a brief period of house arrest, Mr. Thompson, wittingly or not, has created a situation in which a sentence that includes any time behind bars could seem a tough penalty and perhaps mollify some of those who opposed his recommendation.
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For example, when Mr. Trump boasted to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval Office that he had fired the F.B.I. director, it raised only the possibility — a "circumstantial inference," as it's called in counterintelligence — that the president was wittingly working on behalf of the Russians.
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But if he does know something of interest to Mr. Mueller and chooses to enter a plea agreement, his cooperation could help prosecutors put together a clearer picture of how Russian actors intervened in the presidential election and how the Trump campaign, wittingly or unwittingly, interacted with them.
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" - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi in a statement "While it does not include an allegation that any U.S. persons conspired wittingly with the Russian actors, the indictment leaves open the vital question of whether Americans, including any associated with the Trump campaign, knowingly played a role in Russia's active measures campaign.
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Probably because he knows he didn't wittingly invite Russian intelligence operatives into his campaign headquarters to conduct a strategy session, President Donald Trump has tried to establish a ridiculous bar for wrongdoing: As long as he, personally, didn't conspire with Russians to sabotage Democratic campaigns, then there is no scandal.
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" - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi in a statement "While it does not include an allegation that any U.S. persons conspired wittingly with the Russian actors, the indictment leaves open the vital question of whether Americans, including any associated with the Trump campaign, knowingly played a role in Russia's active measures campaign.
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What these two individuals, along with the acting director of the F.B.I., Andrew McCabe, and the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, are wittingly or unwittingly misconstruing is that their duty is to serve the American people, and their job is to advise the president while remaining independent of unlawful influence.
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However, what Mueller has revealed in court has already told the story of Russia's ambitious and brazen attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, the operatives who aided -- wittingly or otherwise -- in that effort, and the extent to which people around Donald Trump lied when faced with tough questions.
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By dint of her profession, however, she is someone to whom people turn in confidence, revealing not merely their physical symptoms but also, wittingly or otherwise, the roots of their anxieties; individual bodies and faces become a kind of confession, in Jenny's eyes, as if she were a secular disciple of Father Brown.
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" With that caveat in mind, he said "the full-on viral 'fake news' of yonder is playing a somewhat secondary role compared to (A) misinformation pushed by and for openly political purposes and (B) bizarro conspiracy theories emerging from messaging boards and getting amplified wittingly or unwittingly by folks on Facebook/Twitter.
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Recall this is the same bureau that, wittingly or not, probably did more than any other arm of government to create the Trump presidency in the first place, in part because disgruntled F.B.I. field agents were intent on forcing James Comey to reopen the Clinton email investigation 11 days before the election.
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Now, after just as abruptly canceling the summit meeting, Mr. Trump has — wittingly or not — set in motion a more normal set of discussions to lay the groundwork for an agreement about North Korea's nuclear weapons program ahead of a decision on whether to hold a meeting between the two leaders after all.
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Against that backdrop, even if you assume that none of the concerns the FBI had about Mr. Page bear out, and he was neither wittingly nor unwittingly furthering the aims of the Russian government, we're still left with an overwhelming mountain of other evidence about Russia's efforts to influence and undermine our elections in 2016.
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"At a time when people are losing their heads in partisan battles, trading insults, spreading - wittingly and unwittingly - false and incomplete narratives about persons and groups, I would like Be(com)ing Nigerian to be a gentle prod, a reminder that often we are complicit in the abuses we accuse others of," he says.
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" It's bad enough that Congress has ceded its lawmaking authority to unelected bureaucrats throughout the administrative state, but it is absolutely shocking when a law professor pushes the judicial branch to wittingly cede its constitutional duty to decide "all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States.
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Just as Four and Nine withhold their own names, they also withhold naming how the new government gained control of the country, what crimes the two of them might be wittingly, or unwittingly, helping to perpetuate with the road they've come to pave, and along which the new government will soon consolidate its power.
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He said he believes she is "either wittingly or unwittingly" carrying water for Russians with her non-adversarial stance toward Syrian strongman Bashar Assad and hesitancy to support impeaching President Donald Trump.. "From the very beginning, Tulsi has positioned herself to try to be a spoiler in every election that she's participated in this cycle," he said.
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James ClapperJames Robert ClapperEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Former DHS, intelligence leaders launch group to protect presidential campaigns from foreign interference Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief MORE, the director of national intelligence, has repeatedly battled allegations over his 2013 claim that the U.S. does "not wittingly" collect data on millions of Americans.
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It's hard to look toward the 2020 election with anything but concern — we have not come far enough to protect the democratic process from the threat of foreign election interference, and one reason may well be that the man in the Oval Office has been compromised and continues to be influenced, wittingly or otherwise, by a Kremlin eager to see the United States remain vulnerable.
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" Further, he believes the U.S. intelligence community is, in fact, in a bitter war with Trump, one that could end with his removal from office: "Behind closed doors, plenty of American intelligence experts believe that President Trump is the pawn of the Kremlin, wittingly or not, and assess that it's only a matter of time before unseemly Moscow ties are exposed and the White House enters unsurvivable political crisis.
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For all the copious spin in this volume, Mr. Rumsfeld wittingly or unwittingly ratifies several aspects of the Bush administration described in earlier books and news reports: namely that toxic in-fighting between the Pentagon and State Department undermined the handling of the war in Iraq; and that the decision-making process within the Bush White House and the National Security Council was often fuzzy, if not downright dysfunctional.
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One is the savaging of her reputation by an updated version of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" she accused, with some justification, of smearing her and her husband in the 1990s—including radical conservative donors, fake-news peddlers and Russian hackers and their internet bots, all egged on, wittingly or not, by a Republican candidate who "trafficked in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet".
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"I'm not sure if having five more Facebooks — if you broke up Facebook into five component parts, or any of these other large social media or technology companies — makes as much sense as regulating them, given the power they have [and] the way in which they can be used, wittingly or not, to undermine our democracy and affect the outcomes of our elections," O'Rourke said at a meet and greet in New Hampshire, according to the CNN reporter who asked the question of the candidate.
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John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) questioned Barr about possible leaks to The New York Times following its recent bombshell report that said the FBI began investigating whether Trump — wittingly or unwittingly — was working for Russia, a probe they reportedly started after he fired former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 6900 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE in 2017.
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The redacted Mueller report is rich in information, but legislators would very likely benefit enormously by knowing more about a number of things from the pages that have been kept from Congress: how Moscow devised its attempts to penetrate the Trump campaign and the tactical benefits it expected to gain from different parts of the operation, what actions Americans took wittingly and unwittingly to support Kremlin front organizations and WikiLeaks, and why members of the Russian delegation at Trump Tower were not charged with violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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In quick succession, audiences will gorge on such memorable looks as the metallic handlebar headdress and sci-fi bikini from the cover of Cher's 1979 "Take Me Home" album; the seatbelt, mesh and garters in which she straddled an aircraft-carrier cannon in the video for her 1989 hit, "If I Could Turn Back Time"; and the wittingly tacky tiger-striped unitard (with one black bra strap showing) that she wore as her most famous comic character, the launderette-lingering cutup Laverne Lashinsky, on her various TV variety shows in the 1970s.
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