White House National Security Reporter for @Reuters. Spent two years on the campaign trail and seven in South America ๐ง๐ท ๐จ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐ท Signal: gslattery.05
SCOOP: Kurt Olsen, who has led the adminโs election security effort and probed voting machines from Puerto Rico, is now working for DOJ as a prosecutor in Miami. W/@AGoudsward
SCOOP: The CIA has stopped contributing to some ODNI intelligence assessments, including those related to the Iran war, as a result of a year-long feud between the agencies over turf and mission.
Bloomberg News exclusive:
Vladimir Putin has been told by senior Russian officials that the war in Ukraine is becoming unaffordable, the most serious sign of internal division in Moscow since the full-scale invasion began
https://t.co/gpk6OChdlC
SCOOP! The commander of U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Donovan, met senior Cuban military leaders at the perimeter of Guatanamo Bay today. Story coming...
New:
Russia is covertly planning to transport Russian-Armenians into Armenia en masse to swing that nationโs June election, per intel sources
Part of a broader plan to scuttle Trumpโs Caucasus peace efforts
w @BalmforthTom@LucyPapa96@humeyra_pamuk
https://t.co/1T2RW0sRiG
Interesting Brazil news ๐ง๐ท
US designates two Brazilian criminal organizations as FTOs right after Flavio Bolsonaro meets Trump
Lula had lobbied against this move, fearing it would have the practical effect of inhibiting US-Brazil commerce
Couldn't agree more.
Today we had a U.S. official tell media outlets tentative deal agreed to, but Trump needed days to think it over.
Then Bessent wouldn't confirm, only said "โWe perhaps have the makings of a deal."
And then Iranian officials said text not finalized.
SCOOP: Trumpโs election-security czar Kurt Olsen sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks
The US fired more than 200 THAAD interceptors in defense of Israel โ roughly half of the Pentagonโs total inventory โ along with more than 100 SM-3 and SM-6 interceptors. By contrast, Israel fired fewer than 100 of its Arrow and around 90 David Sling interceptors
From Reuters team @Journotopia@humeyra_pamuk@johnshiffman@G_Slattery@IrishJReuters@kellyJapan@andrea_shalal:
"At a moment when a uniquely unpredictable U.S. president is rattling markets and capitals with dramatic pronouncements, governments around the world are scrambling for clarity, only to discover that their usual points of contact โ at U.S. embassies or inside Washington โ are missing, mute or out of the loop."
https://t.co/pL60JunERT
Scoop:
The Trump admin is planning to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities the US would have available to assist European nations in a major crisis, like an invasion of a NATO member, sources said
w @JonathanLanday@andrew_r_gray
Scoop, via @humeyra_pamuk@JonathanLanday:
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau instructed senior State Department officials to facilitate and approve a visa for a fugitive former Polish cabinet minister, allowing him to flee to the US from Hungary, sources said
Scoop, via @alexjcornwell:
The U.S. is considering asking Israel to give some tax money it is withholding from the Palestinian Authority to Donald Trump's Board of Peace to fund the U.S. president's post-war plan for Gaza, sources familiar with the matter said
He just published an impactful national security scoop, and is finally enjoying the evening. Have an extremely angry comms person who had previously declined to comment call up and dispute the entire premise of the article