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Dan Boylan

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Dan Boylan was a former general assignment reporter at The Washington Times.

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Russian election hacking inquiry sees Facebook handing over ads

Facebook on Thursday agreed to hand over to congressional investigators more than 3,000 Russia-linked social media ads that appeared on its platform, two weeks after it notified Capitol Hill that fake accounts had spent about $100,000 on the ads from June 2015 to May 2017.

September 21, 2017
Then-Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman nominee Jay Clayton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Mark Warner demands more information on SEC data breach by hackers

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were demanding answers Thursday as the Securities and Exchange Commission tried to assess the damage after admitting the hackers breached its database of public company filings last year and potentially used that knowledge for insider stock trades.

September 21, 2017
Bills are going before the Senate to effectively block President Trump from dismissing special counsel Robert Mueller from his investigations into election meddling. (Associated Press)

Robert Mueller investigation would be shielded by Senate bills

Just as President Trump has begun easing off his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Senate Judiciary Committee members next week will consider two partisan-backed bills aimed at shielding the probe from the White House.

September 20, 2017
President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, center, departs following a closed door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Michael Cohen testimony cancelled over leaked opening statement

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence canceled plans for President Trump's longtime personal attorney to testify behind closed doors Tuesday on Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, because the lawyer leaked his opening statement.

September 19, 2017
A man talks to a police office outside the UN building, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017 in New York. President Trump made his first appearance at the United Nation General Assembly this Monday. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Saudi Arabian government denounces ‘extremist ideology’

The Saudi Arabian government-supported Muslim World League, once seen as a promoter of the radical Wahhabism ideology, has issued a communique alongside the United Nations General Assembly denouncing "extremist ideology" and vowing to "protect societies from its effects, consequences, and repercussions."

September 18, 2017
In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Michael Flynn’s family plans legal defense fund

Michael Flynn, President Trump's onetime top national security aide who has emerged as a central figure in the Russian election meddling probe, is now facing such enormous legal bills that his family has established a defense fund for him as inquiries into his actions continue to mount.

September 18, 2017
Susan E. Rice faced charges that she and other Obama aides "unmasked" — or learned the redacted identities — of Trump associates swept up in U.S. surveillance operations against foreign targets. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump assails Susan Rice for unmasking staff meeting with UAE sheikh

President Trump on Thursday lashed out at President Obama's top national security aide amid reports she acknowledged to congressional investigators that she sought classified information on senior members of his staff during the presidential transition because of suspicions over a prominent Gulf sheikh's secret visit to Manhattan.

September 14, 2017
Former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice's checkered history continues to haunt her in the post-Obama era. (Associated Press)

Susan Rice reveals why she ‘unmasked’ Trump campaign staffers

President Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice has told a congressional inquiry into Russian election meddling that she spied on senior Trump officials last year because the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was secretly visiting New York.

September 14, 2017
Russia is a main focus of congressional committee investigations. Democrats have focused on suspected Kremlin links with the Trump campaign and well-documented hacking efforts, and investigators have taken interest in a dossier on President Trump. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Russia investigations return with Congress

The progress congressional investigators have made this summer comes into sharp focus this week as House and Senate committees return to work to ratchet up the legal and political clash into any possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin -- and whether Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's allies tried to falsely fan the story.

September 4, 2017
CIA Director Allen Dulles created MK-Ultra in 1953 as America's Cold War anti-communism sentiment reached its zenith. (Associated Press/File)

CIA’s MK-Ultra LSD mind control experiment has lingering legacy

Forty years later, the story still seems hard to credit: In the summer of 1977, Capitol Hill was gripped by revelations of the CIA's top-secret MK-Ultra mind control research program, targeting unsuspecting American citizens, in some cases by luring them to brothels to be fed LSD-laced cocktails.

August 30, 2017
Analysts say Iranian Atomic Chief Ali Akbar Salehi's threat to enrich uranium will force Europe to pressure the U.S. not to abandon the nuclear deal. (Associated Press)

Iran boast on enrichment serves as warning to Trump

Iran's boast this week that it needs only days to ramp up the uranium enrichment needed to produce a nuclear bomb added a new layer of complexity to an internal White House debate over whether President Trump should declare Tehran in violation of the 2015 nuclear accord.

August 24, 2017
Former NSA and CIA officials believe the so-called hack of the Democratic National Committee would not have been possible without someone working on the inside. (Associated Press)

DNC hack theories considered extreme and fringe now entering mainstream

The conventional wisdom that last year's Democratic National Committee computer hack, which triggered WikiLeaks to release thousands of emails revealing Democratic Party favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Bernard Sanders, was conducted by Russian operatives is facing increasing scrutiny.

August 21, 2017