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Dan Boylan

dboylan@washingtontimes.com

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

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Manezh in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 1, 2018. Putin on Thursday boasted of new nuclear weapons and set a series of ambitious goals for Russia, vowing to boost living standards, improve health care and education and build modern infrastructure in a state-of-the-nation address. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian social media also targeted U.S. energy industry, congressional report says

More than 4 percent of all tweets from the internet Research Agency (IRA) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's online propaganda outfit charged last month by U.S. investigators with engaging in "information warfare" against the American political system -- targeted energy issues and the energy sector, according to a new congressional report.

March 1, 2018
A man lays flowers where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was murdered in 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Daughter of murdered Putin critic presses U.S. to investigate

Three years after Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge in the shadow of the Kremlin, and one day after the plaza in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington was renamed in his honor, his daughter asked the U.S. Congress to help investigate the still-murky details of his murder.

February 28, 2018
Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California, the intelligence committee's top Democrat and author of the memo, said surveillance of Mr. Page produced "valuable intelligence" — though the evidence for that, too, is redacted. (Associated Press/File)

Carter Page ‘of interest’ to FBI for years, Democrat memo says

A Democrat-funded opposition research dossier was only a narrow part of the FBI's justification for obtaining a warrant to spy on a former Trump campaign official, congressional Democrats said in their long-awaited memo on the process that led to the snooping.

February 25, 2018
In this file photo taken March 20, 2017, House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., questions then-FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the committee's hearing regarding allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Democrats defend memo, FBI, Justice Department

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee continue arguing that a disputed surveillance warrant for a former Trump campaign associate in 2016 was not based only on the so-called anti-Trump Steele dossier.

February 25, 2018
This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

‘Twitter purge’ of conservative accounts prompts backlash, lawsuits

Prominent conservative Twitter users pushed back hard on Wednesday after an overnight purge of their accounts that culled thousands of their followers, as the embattled social media platform faced mounting charges of left-wing bias and suppression of right-wing viewpoints.

February 22, 2018
Special counsel Robert Mueller gave no indication about his next move with the indictments of 13 Russian operatives. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Russian operatives not free, clear beyond U.S. law

The 13 Russian social media "troll factory" operatives charged last week with meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election should fear for their freedom should they ever set foot beyond the borders of Russia, security analysts said this week.

February 21, 2018