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National security reporter for The Washington Post. ellen.nakashima @washpost .com

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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
BREAKING: Russian hacking group APT29 behind broad espionage campaign that breached Treasury, Commerce, FireEye.
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
This is just not true. State and local election officials have said it is virtually impossible for foreign govts to pull this off. Experts say fraud via mail-in ballot is rare.
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RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee is told to expect notification by 5pm that the Mueller report has been delivered to Barr
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
Fiona Hill said it "seemed to be the indication" that Kash Patel, who is a CT aide on the NSC and former Nunes staffer, was providing info on Ukraine directly to POTUS without her knowledge.
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Ellen Nakashima
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Former DNI Dan Coats breaks his silence to urge that ODNI brief both House and Senate in-person on foreign threats to the election. Briefing just one committee is "the wrong thing to do," he tells The Post.
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
NEW: More than 80 national security professionals break with tradition and endorse a presidential candidate — Biden
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
SCOOP by @Washingtonpost 's @Milbank : 15 Trump administration officials were embedded with the WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31.
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
NEW: More than a dozen U.S. personnel at the WHO, many from the CDC, transmitted real-time information about Covid-19's discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration. Report by @KarenDeyoung1 @bylenasun @emilyrauhala , building on @Milbank scoop
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
Interesting move: Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tex) asks @POTUS to delay signing the newly-reauthorized surveillance law known as Section 702 in light of HPSCI memo on "Fisa abuses," and urges public release of the memo. Poe wanted stronger privacy measures in Section 702.
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
DEVELOPING: Senate Judiciary panel postpones AG nominee Bill Barr's confirmation vote amid Democrats' concerns he will limit the Mueller probe.
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
BREAKING: Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
We confirm WSJ report that Trump pressed Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden’s son, and reveal WH Counsel Pat Cipollone's role in preventing whistleblower complaint from being sent to Congress. @gregpmiller @mattzap @carolleonnig and me
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
NEW: Acting defense secretary orders NSA director to immediately install former GOP operative as the agency’s top lawyer. Chris Miller gave Gen. Nakasone the order on Saturday.
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
"We have failed to impose sufficient costs" on Russia -- H.R. McMaster in his last public remarks as National Security Advisor, in a speech at the Atlantic Council.
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
WaPo analysis finds that domestic terrorism incidents have soared to new highs in the United States, driven chiefly by white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists on the far right.
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
Breaking: Judge Amy Berman Jackson revoked Manafort’s bond. Rules he is detained pending trial. He’s going to jail.
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
This just in: Former Clinton & Romney campaign chiefs join forces to prevent repeat of 2016 election hacking
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Ellen Nakashima
2 years
BREAKING: President Biden announces imposition of full blocking sanctions on 2 large banks: VEB and a military bank. Also new sanctions on sovereign debt, cutting off Russia from foreign financing.
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
‘Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction. EXCLUSIVE by @AmyEGardner
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
HERE'S A REVEAL: White House officials had drafted a statement to be released Friday accusing Russia of carrying out the cyber hacks, but they were blocked from doing so, a sr administration official tells @jdawsey1 . Here's our story.
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3 years
ALERT: The State Department and NIH join list of federal agencies — now five — hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign. And their number is expected to grow. w/ @craigtimberg
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
Trump has been distracted from managing the pandemic by fixating on Flynn and related matters, ranting in private about the Russia investigation, complaining about Comey and others in the FBI, according to one presidential advisor.
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
The pressure on Republicans to call for witnesses has just gone up substantially.
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
BREAKING: Kislyak told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret comms channel w the Kremlin w @adamentous @gregpmiller
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
UPDATE: Sources tell me that the victims--Treasury, Commerce, FireEye--were breached through an IT Management System called Solar Winds
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
NEW: U.S. CyberCom contemplates information warfare to counter Russian interference in the 2020 election
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Ellen Nakashima
2 years
NEW: Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations. A top Pentagon official directed military commands to account within 30 days for their psyops following complaints by Facebook/Twitter that the fake personas violated user rules.
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
Sally Yates testifies that incoming Trump natl security advisor Michael Flynn was not acting on his own speaking to Russian ambassador Kislyak. "It was a very deliberate planned set of conversations" coordinated with the incoming deputy national security advisor.
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
As a result of our story, SecDef Mattis has asked the DOD IG to review contractor cybersecurity issues. China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
NEW: Russian bounties to Taliban-linked militants resulted in deaths of U.S. troops, according to intelligence assessments. My latest with @karendeyoung1 @Missy_Ryan @John_Hudson
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
For the record it's Ellen Nakashima :)
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Dustin Volz
7 years
Rep. Conaway just referred to @nakashimae as "Elaine something"
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
NEW: Trump’s acting intelligence chief declines to meet with Congress for election threats briefing, apparently reluctant to face questioning on politically volatile subjects. @seungminkim and me
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
NEW: Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say. By @karoun @jdawsey1 @carolleonnig and me
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
The U.S. government spent billions on a system for detecting hacks. The Russians outsmarted it. The latest by ⁦ @craigtimberg ⁩ and me
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
Adm. Mike Rogers, NSA director and head of Cyber Command, has now told the workforce he is retiring this spring, and he expects POTUS to nominate and Senate to confirm a successor this month.
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
Read this thread for a great example of a sharp-eyed journalist noticing something amiss, asking the right questions, and not stopping till he's found the answer.
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Joe Heim
4 years
A number of people have emailed asking how we learned the National Archives had altered the photo from the 2017 Women’s March. The short answer is: chance. The little bit longer answer I’ll explain in this thread. 1/?
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Ellen Nakashima
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Two amazing things about this @RonanFarrow story: 1) an apparent law enforcement official came forward as the source of the leak of Cohen's financial records 2) source apparently was motivated by files missing from the Treasury database.
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Ellen Nakashima
2 years
Historic sanctions on Russia had roots in Zelensky’s emotional appeal. “It was extremely, extremely emotional,” said a European official briefed on the call. “He was essentially saying: ‘Look, we are here dying for European ideals.”
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
Hill said she was initially irritated by Sondland's failure to coordinate policy with her and other officials, but after yesterday's hearing, she realizes he wasn't wrong -- he was just given a "different remit than we had been"
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
ALERT: Former GOP operative Michael Ellis placed on administrative leave from NSA top lawyer job, pending DOD IG inquiry. first reported by CBS News.
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
BREAKING NEWS: Special Counsel's Office has indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for hacking the DNC, releasing it with intention of influencing 2016 campaign
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
NEW: Elite CIA unit that developed hacking tools failed to secure its own systems, allowing massive "Vault 7" leak, an internal report found. My latest with @shaneharris
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
"Fight like hell," Trump urged the crowd, which went on to storm the Capitol. A day later he says he's "outraged by the violence, lawlessness & mayhem."
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Ellen Nakashima
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"The White House’s move to restrict press access was an extraordinary act of retaliation by the U.S. government, which historically has upheld the rights of journalists while a president travels overseas." via @philiprucker @jdawsey1
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Ellen Nakashima
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NEW: U.S. military poised to secure new access to key Philippine bases on heels of a significant revamp of U.S. force posture in Japan. Allies are concerned about rising threats in the region. By @rebtanhs and me.
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
Jen Psaki just said that Josh Geltzer, a former NSC CT aide, will help lead the effort to "scope" the response to domestic terrorism, along with Liz Sherwood Randall and Russ Travers @jgeltzer
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
Legal expert Peter Zeidenberg tells me Papadopoulos plea is "a bombshell." It "goes much closer to the issue of collusion."
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
The Post's executive editor @PostBaron issued these guidelines this week to help the newsroom be prepared for a hack-and-leak scenario this election.
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
NSA and Cyber Command to coordinate actions to counter Russian election interference in 2018 amid absence of White House guidance
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
Dealing with Trump, Comey writes, gave him “flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob...The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
FBI Director Chris Wray in his first public comments says "I have not detected any whiff of interference" in the Russia investigation.
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Ellen Nakashima
2 years
SIGNIFICANCE: This is the first time the United States is applying full blocking sanctions against a Russian state-owned bank, freezing the bank's assets and cutting off all transactions.
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Ellen Nakashima
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Trump’s acting intelligence chief told to turn over whistleblower complaint or face public questioning by Congress w/ @carolleonnig @shaneharris
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
WH, invoking "presidential communication privilege,'' directed senior Pentagon officials not to answer IG questions about whether Trump sought to sway the $10 billion JEDI contract award, new report finds. @Post_AG @jdawsey1
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
U.S. cyber force credited with helping stop Russia from undermining midterms. Sen. Rounds: “The fact that the 2018 election process moved forward without successful Russian intervention was not a coincidence.”
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
The President of the United States says: A free press isn’t an adversary. A free press is essential to the health of a democracy.
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
Inside Vindman’s ouster amid fears of further retaliation by Trump, by @DavidNakamura @gregpmiller
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
NEW: Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world’s largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election - The Washington Post
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
Police departments across the U.S. open probes into whether their own members took part in the Capitol riot ⁦ @bellwak
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Ellen Nakashima
4 years
@rgoodlaw @AshaRangappa_ @emptywheel @benjaminwittes As we first reported here , it was the FBI-- not the NSA--that collected on Kislyak's call with Flynn. And the FBI's summary of that call included Flynn's name in the open. So there was NO NEED to request an unmasking.
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
BREAKING: A federal judge holds Roger Stone aide, Andrew Miller, in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the Special Counsel's Russia investigation. @hsu_spencer @DevlinBarrett
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Ellen Nakashima
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SDNY in 2011 had started to develop a hacking conspiracy case against Assange but they were told to stand down to permit EDVA to pursue an espionage act case against the WikiLeaks founder, former law enforcement officials say.
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Ellen Nakashima
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Federal court approved FBI’s continued use of warrantless surveillance power despite repeated violations of privacy rules
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
SCOOP: Hundreds of #IRS employees processing tax refunds without pay are not showing up for work in shutdown job action that could jeopardize filing season via @dPAQreport @Reinlwapo @JStein_WaPo @Kimberlykindy
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
UPDATE: Michael Ellis, a former GOP operative, will take up his new job as NSA's top lawyer on Tuesday, one day before the Biden administration takes over, sources tell me.
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
ALERT: Ransomware attack leads to shut down of major U.S. pipeline system, U.S. official says. Still unknown if carried out by criminals or foreign govt. These incidents are more common than realized, but mostly go unreported to the public, experts say.
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
Great to see @GenMhayden accept a lifetime achievement award today at the #BillingtonSummit -his first time on the public stage since his stroke last year.
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
Manafort and his attorney just walked in the front door of the FBI Washington field office.
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Ellen Nakashima
6 years
An indignant Kavanaugh interrupts Leahy: "I’m going to talk about my high school record if you’re going to sit here and mock me..." Proceeds to talk about how he finished #1 in the class.... Kavanaugh is having difficulty controlling his temper.
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Ellen Nakashima
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SCOOP: China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, alarming top U.S. national security officials. Tokyo has made strides since the 2020 breach was discovered by the NSA. But the problem is still not fully fixed.
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Ellen Nakashima
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UPDATED: Russian government hackers are behind an online espionage campaign that has breached the Treasury and Commerce Departments, other U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm. The scale of this is "very, very bad," said one source. w/ @CraigTimberg
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Ellen Nakashima
2 years
NEW: U.S. intelligence report documented Prigozhin, a leader of Wagner mercenary group, vented to Putin over Russian military's bungling of war. He is the insider The Post previously reported confronted Putin to spotlight mismanagement of the war effort.
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
Senior U.S. officials tell The Post that there was no wiretap of Trump or Trump Tower
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Ellen Nakashima
3 years
NEW: Trump tweets for the first time on the cyber hacks of the USG, appearing to contradict SecState Pompeo, who said Russia was “clearly” responsible. Trump suggests it “may” be China, and downplays the gravity of the breaches.
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
SCOOP: Trump's call with a foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress, former officials say --w/ @gregpmiller & @shaneharris
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Ellen Nakashima
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Sources tell the WaPo that the Russian SVR intelligence service --APT 29 -- appears to be behind the hack of FireEye. That's the same group that hacked Democratic servers in 2015. But the investigation continues. @Joseph_Marks_
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Ellen Nakashima
7 years
So Russian hackers swiped all 3 billion Yahoo user accounts in 2013. Imagine the database they've amassed. @b_fung
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Ellen Nakashima
5 years
Former WikiLeaks associate David House testified last year before EDVA grand jury, which was interested in whether Julian Assange had solicited Chelsea Manning to hack on WikiLeaks' behalf, he said.
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