Eli Lake, Columnist

Trump Resets the Russia Reset. (Again.)

Clinton gave cooperation a shot. So did Bush. Obama, too. Hmm, there's a pattern.

November 16, 2016 at 12:00 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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Imagine how Vladimir Putin must be feeling. His government hacks the e-mails of leading Democrats, and his friends at WikiLeaks make sure to drip them out in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. In a shocker, the party the Russians didn't hack wins. Less than a week after the victory, the incoming president tells him he wants to explore greater cooperation against the Islamic State.

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