by Eli Lake | Jun 30, 2017 | Opinion
“I feel like we sort of choked.” That is the killer quote in an extraordinary Washington Post investigation into how Barack Obama responded to intelligence last year that Russia was running a sophisticated influence operation against the 2016 elections....
by Eli Lake | Jun 25, 2017 | Opinion
In 2014, Mohamed Fahmy, the former Cairo bureau chief for the Qatar-funded television network began a 438-day sentence in an Egyptian prison on terrorism charges and practicing unlicensed journalism. Today Fahmy is preparing a lawsuit against his former employers. And...
by Eli Lake | Jun 3, 2017 | Opinion
Will this duplicitous nation cut off terrorist financing, or coordinate with the Pentagon, or both? For a brief moment it looked like President Donald Trump had done it. He got the leaders of six Gulf nations to sign a communique pledging to eradicate the financing of...
by Eli Lake | May 23, 2017 | Opinion
Rouhani was the lesser of two evils, but Westerners vastly overestimate what an Iranian president can do. In the days before President Hassan Rouhani’s re-election victory in Iran this weekend, a video of one of his old speeches circulated on social media....
by Eli Lake | Apr 26, 2017 | Opinion
Before Donald Trump won the election in November we were warned: He is a Russian stooge. He is a fascist. He will upend the protocols and traditions that make governing possible. This is not normal. Now that we are approaching the 100-day mark, it’s worth noting...
