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Greg Miller is an investigative foreign correspondent for The Washington Post based in London. He was among the Post reporters awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.
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Aug 19, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Russia's FSB spent decades and untold millions monitoring Ukraine and trying to keep it under thumb of Moscow.

How did it get so much so breathtakingly wrong in run-up to war?

A quick thread on today's story w/ @CatherineBelton washingtonpost.com/world/interact… @CatherineBelton Despite its intense focus on Ukraine, Western intelligence officials said, the FSB either failed to grasp how fiercely Ukraine would resist, or did understand but couldn’t convey such inconvenient information to Putin.
Mar 16, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Shorter DNI on election interference:

Russia ran it back in 2020, but had a lot more inside help from senators/officials/individuals in the United States. Contradicting claims by Trump DNI, China 'did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts' in US presidential race.

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Nov 3, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
A brief thread:
In Feb. 2017, I wrote a story about Trump’s disastrous first phone call with the Australian prime minister.
That story led to a sort of pen-pal exchange with an Australian citizen that has continued to this day.
washingtonpost.com/world/national… 2) In his first message to me, he wrote about how upsetting it was to see an American president be so abusive toward such a staunch ally.