Category: National Security

IN-DEPTH: Majority of US Power Grid Faces ‘Elevated Risk’ of Summer Outages, Warns Reliability Watchdog

More than two-thirds of North America could see electrical outages when temperatures spike this coming summer because utilities in many areas do not have sufficient reserve generation capacity to meet surges in demand. According to an annual summer reliability assessment published on May 17 by the watchdog North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the power grid…


IN-DEPTH: Power Grid Facing ‘Elevated Risk’ of Summer Outages, Warns Reliability Watchdog

More than two-thirds of North America could see electrical outages when temperatures spike this coming summer because utilities in many areas do not have sufficient reserve generation capacity to meet surges in demand. According to an annual summer reliability assessment published on May 17 by the watchdog North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the power grid…


Bill Barr Says Durham Report Has ‘Vindicated’ Trump, Calls FBI Probe an ‘Abomination’

Former Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday that John Durham’s long-awaited report was “a success,” further indicating it has cleared former President Donald Trump of all wrongdoing “as far as Russiagate is concerned.” The key takeaway of Durham’s 300-plus page report (pdf) published on Monday was that FBI agents pursued a full investigation—dubbed “Crossfire…


Rep. Jim Jordan Says Congress Must Target FBI’s Budget in Wake of Durham Report

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has called for Congress to target the budget of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after the release of special counsel John Durham’s bombshell report, which revealed the bureau launched its “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign without evidence and due process. Speaking on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on…


National Archives Admits Every Administration Since Reagan Has Mishandled Classified Documents

Mishandling of classified documents by recent presidents has been the norm, not the exception, according to newly declassified testimony from a House Intelligence Committee hearing with National Archives’ staff. William Bosanko, the agency’s chief operating officer, told Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) during the March 1 hearing that every “administration from Reagan forward[,] we have found…


NIH Cuts Off Funding to Wuhan Lab at Center of COVID Leak Controversy

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has quietly removed the Wuhan lab suspected as a source of COVID-19 from its list of foreign facilities eligible to conduct animal experiments on taxpayer dollars. The name Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which was still on the list as recently as April 23, was absent from the page…


NIH Cuts Off Funding to Wuhan Lab at Center of COVID Lab Leak Controversy

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has quietly removed the Wuhan lab suspected as a source of COVID-19 from its list of foreign facilities eligible to conduct animal experiments on taxpayer dollars. The name Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was still on the list as recently as April 23, was absent from the page last…


US Won’t Find Same Unity in Imposing Sanctions Against China as It Did With Russia: Panel

Russian President Vladimir Putin spent nearly a decade developing a “Fortress Russia” strategy to mitigate the impact on his nation and its financial institutions from Western sanctions before launching his February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. That strategy, which included an accelerated “de-dollarization” effort since 2014, has failed in the face of stiff sanctions imposed by…


LIVE NOW: Keeping the Lights on in America: Looking Ahead at Power Grid Reliability–A Heritate Foundation Event

James Danly, commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, discusses power grid reliability and the impact of electricity policies in a conversation held by Heritage Foundation at 11:00 a.m. ET on May 17. Travis Fisher, senior research fellow,  Energy and Environment of The Heritage Foundation, hosts the event. …


Keeping the Lights on in America: Looking Ahead at Power Grid Reliability–A Heritate Foundation Event

James Danly, commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, discusses power grid reliability and the impact of electricity policies in a conversation held by Heritage Foundation at 11:00 a.m. ET on May 17. Travis Fisher, senior research fellow,  Energy and Environment of The Heritage Foundation, hosts the event. …