Daniel N. Hoffman

Beware of hostile regimes weaponizing Trump’s COVID-19 battle

The Trump administration should be as transparent as possible about the president's illness and recuperation to avoid creating vulnerable attack space for foreign adversaries to sow confusion.

October 15, 2020

Don’t believe Putin’s lies in Navalny poisoning

Last month, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from the Berlin hospital where he was treated for 32 days after being poisoned with the Soviet military-grade nerve agent Novichok while on a trip to Russia's Far East.

October 8, 2020

Hyper-partisan politics leaves America vulnerable to Russia and adversaries

Our hyperpartisan politics creates openings for attack and division, which our adversaries -- Russia in particular -- ruthlessly exploit.

September 24, 2020

Saudi’s detention of innocent son and daughter of Saad al Jabri is a gross human rights violation

U.S. lawmakers express grave concern that Omar and Sarah al Jabri were being held against their will to compel their father's return from Canada to Riyadh to face charges of corruption.

September 10, 2020

Trump’s diplomatic triumph with Israel-UAE agreement applies ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran

Earlier this month Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they will normalize diplomatic ties and build a new bilateral relationship, a breakthrough which has the potential to recast the balance of power in the Middle East.

August 27, 2020

China’s Trojan horse real estate acquisition threatens America’s power grid

China has made the control over foreign real estate a central tool in its increasingly aggressive and diverse arsenal.

August 13, 2020

Christopher Steele’s failings go far beyond dodgy Trump ‘dossier’

Christopher Steele would best serve his own interests -- and the national security of both the U.K. and U.S. -- with a mea culpa admitting his errors of judgment and laying out the multitude of lessons we should learn from his shoddy work product.

July 30, 2020

Is Russia paying the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. troops?

A Taliban bounty plot would be completely consistent with Mr. Putin's cloak-and-dagger approach to tactics and strategy.

July 16, 2020

Gina Haspel and CIA stream recruitment efforts

Last month, for the first time ever, the CIA began airing recruitment videos on entertainment, news and lifestyle streaming services. And the clandestine life appears to have its attractions.

July 2, 2020

Fighting the dark art of Russian disinformation this presidential election

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien warned last month that America's foreign adversaries will seek to exploit our domestic crises to "sew discord and to try and damage our democracy."

June 18, 2020

Iraq’s promising new leader Mustafa al-Kadhimi deserves our support

The Iraqi parliament's approval last month of a new government under Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was a welcome development for a country devastated by terrorism, decades of violence and corruption.

June 4, 2020

How the United States can effectively contain China

The United States needs to take the lead in holding China accountable and countering Mr. Xi's strategy.

May 21, 2020

Lessons learned from the Steele dossier fiasco

It has taken too many years, but the infamous Steele dossier has been finally and thoroughly discredited, but not before inflicting great harm on our political process.

May 7, 2020

Don’t let Iran off the economic hook during COVID-19 crisis

The international community should offer Iran assistance -- not in cash but in kind. Send ventilators, CT scanners and protective gear, all under close international scrutiny.

April 23, 2020

Why Russia’s interference in domestic politics must be detected and deterred

While we focus ruthlessly on beating the coronavirus, let's remember our enemies have their sights set on our presidential election, only a few months away.

April 9, 2020

Taiwan rises to coronavirus challenge despite Beijing’s hostility

Taiwan implemented a comprehensive plan created in the aftermath of the SARS epidemic in 2003, fortifying the roof, as the British are fond of saying, when it was sunny. At the first notification that a new virus strain had appeared in China, Taiwan reacted with efficiency and alacrity.

March 26, 2020

Xi Jinping’s coronavirus Chernobyl exposes China’s fatal vulnerabilities

Three-plus decades later, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed Communist China's fault lines, lines eerily similar to the Soviet Union's. There are the same obsequious political apparatchiks, the same brittle and opaque bureaucracy, and the same state-controlled media deployed not to inform the public but to preserve the regime's control and protect the regime's image abroad.

March 12, 2020

Obama’s Russia failures can’t be repeated in 2020 vote

The 2020 presidential election is in the Kremlin's crosshairs. Following DNI official Shelby Pierson's recent classified briefing to lawmakers, rumors are swirling about Russia aid to President Trump and Democratic front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders. It appears Mr. Putin again is purposely advertising Kremlin interference to tarnish the candidates' reputations and sow chaos here.

February 27, 2020

Intelligence community can help on climate change

The intelligence community might not be on the hook to provide a definitive scientific analysis of climate change and global warming, but intelligence analysts can play a key role in assessing how climate change is already affecting our national security and what the trend lines suggest.

February 13, 2020

Gina Haspel keeps CIA intelligence honest, apolitical

The recent successful U.S. strikes against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and top Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani have highlighted the crucial, multifaceted role of the intelligence community in U.S. national security.

January 30, 2020