Just a couple of years ago, Latin America’s fight against political corruption began to break new ground. And perhaps nowhere has the renovation been more dramatic -- and successful -- than in Guatemala, where popular outrage, fearless auditors and most notably a team of crack foreign anti-graft investigators with a sweeping brief have pursued criminals in the highest offices. And yet as Guatemalans have learned, in a region where governing institutions have been clay in the hands of powerful el

The last line of defense in checking President Donald Trump’s foreign policy power is the old guard of the Republican Party, and those watchmen are about to go quietly into the night.A 2018 Republican sweep would cripple two key Senate committees. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee are supposed to oversee the foreign policy and the national security apparatus. Trump has brought them to heel.He has belittled the outspoken Foreign Relations Committee Cha

The prosecutorial investigation into “evils” is apparently set to target former President Lee Myung-bak.His former Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin was arrested Saturday on charges of involvement in the Cyber Command’s illegal political activities, in which personnel left comments critical of the opposition.His former director of the National Intelligence Service, Won Sei-hoon, is serving a four-year prison term for running an unlawful cyber team of civilians and NIS retirees to meddle in elections

As a Californian, I’m proud that our state boasts so many leading technology companies. As a member of the House Intelligence Committee leading an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, I need the assistance of those same companies in our investigation so that together we can protect future elections from foreign influence.In January, the Intelligence Community assessed that the Russians’ sophisticated campaign was designed to help Donald Trump, damage Hillary Clinton and

News reports indicate that Sayfullo Saipov, who allegedly killed eight and wounded 11 in the recent truck attack in New York, entered the country from Uzbekistan through the diversity visa lottery. He is not the first presumed terrorist to enter using the program. Lottery terrorists include Hesham Mohamed Ali Hedayet, who shot up an El-Al ticket counter in 2002, killing two, and Imran Mandhai, who planned to bomb power stations in Florida the same year.The diversity visa lottery seems ideally su

Over the past week in East Asia, North Korea’s nuclear and missile menace was one of the focal points of a flurry of top-level discussions involving leaders who have stakes in the issue. There were many meetings, statements and agreements made by the leaders who held a series of bilateral and multilateral talks at annual regional summits including the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Despite the hectic diplomatic activities, the leaders failed to find a breakthrough in the crisis caused