WASHINGTON — In the final year of the 2020 presidential campaign, as American intelligence agencies were warning urgently about Russian efforts to interfere in another election, a small group of analysts inside the Federal Bureau of Investigation began assembling a different kind of map. It included cabinet secretaries, senators, members of Congress, journalists, political operatives and media organizations. Some were classified as possible targets of Russian influence. Others were identified as potential “conduits” through which Russian disinformation might travel into American political life. Among those placed in the latter category, according to newly declassified records, were Attorney General William P. Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Republican lawmakers including Senators Charles E. Grassley, Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham, as well…
Wyoming Republican congressional candidate Steve Friess is asking voters to see him as a defender of traditional values, a husband and father, and, in the words of his own campaign, a “devoted family man.” His campaign website goes even further, describing Friess as “100% pro-gun, pro-life, and pro-family” and declaring that he has “lived conservative values, not just campaigned on them.” But records obtained by this publication show Friess was…