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Current News Ops Watch

Reality Winner, Imprisoned for Leaking Russian Hacking Report, Seeks Clemency

The Air Force veteran is serving more than five years in prison for sending a classified report to a news website while she was working as a National Security Agency contractor. Reality Winner, the former Air Force linguist and intelligence contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking a government report on Russian hacking, filed a clemency […]

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Candidates Corruption Ground Game Ohio Ops Watch

How the GOP is Planting Disinformation in Ohio to Undermine Democrats

Ohio Republicans just showed that the Trump activity in Ukraine—demanding an investigation into an opponent—is a key part of their disinformation playbook. All of us need to learn from this, including the media, who are too easily duped into the tactic. Let’s start with the Democratic candidate for Congress in Ohio’s 14th. Hillary O’Connor Mueri […]