Democracy's Friends in Pakistan

Pakistan's national security establishment may be the most dangerous force threatening world peace. Yet not all the news is bad. Eli Lake has produced an astonishing report detailing the construction of a pro-American counter-establishment within the Pakistani services which is struggling at …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday December 6, 2011

Russia's Ugly Spy Tactics

So much for the famed "reset." Eli Lake in The Washington Times reports Russia's campaign of intimidation against American officials,  including mysterious break-ins and concocted sex scandals: One example of such intimidation occurred in 2009 against a senior U.S. official in the …

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Written by Frum Forum Editors on Friday August 5, 2011

How's That Reset Working?

Eli Lake reports in the Washington Times that US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian military intelligence was responsible for a bomb blast at the US Embassy in Georgia last September. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a classified report late last year that  Russia ’s …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday July 27, 2011