Philip Ewing
Philip Ewing is an election security editor with NPR's Washington Desk. He helps oversee coverage of election security, voting, disinformation, active measures and other issues. Ewing joined the Washington Desk from his previous role as NPR's national security editor, in which he helped direct coverage of the military, intelligence community, counterterrorism, veterans and more. He came to NPR in 2015 from Politico, where he was a Pentagon correspondent and defense editor. Previously, he served as managing editor of Military.com, and before that he covered the U.S. Navy for the Military Times newspapers.
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Washington and Americans are engaged with the problem of foreign interference as never before — but how much remains unknown about efforts targeting the election? -
The former deputy attorney general was in charge in the final days of the Obama era and into the early days of the Trump era. Senate Republicans want to ask her about the Russia investigation. -
A number of high-ranking Democrats have already said they would not consider an election delay, making the prospect extremely unlikely. -
Democrats questioned and criticized the attorney general in a marathon hearing on Tuesday that covered a wide range of controversies. Barr stood his ground and defended himself and President Trump. -
Democratic lawmakers want an FBI briefing on suspected attacks, and former Vice President Joe Biden says a Republican senator investigating him could be receiving disinformation from Russia. -
Twitter suffered a big cyberattack this week. This security breach has underscored the lingering threat of cyberattacks that U.S. elections are facing.
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Adversaries have exploited Twitter from the bottom up and the outside in. Now the case has been proven that it also can be seized from the inside out with implications for the fall election. -
The defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs respond to careful prompts from Republicans on Thursday aimed at defending the Trump administration on the Russian bounty allegations. -
Lawmakers in both parties demand to learn more from the Trump administration after press reports suggested that Russian operatives have paid Afghan insurgents to target U.S. forces. -
Attorneys tell House lawmakers on Wednesday they perceived political influence in what is supposed to be the independent Department of Justice.
