This week, Lobo Institute experts weighed in on two major storylines. Co-Founder Mick Mulroy returned to ABC News to help break down the widening war in Ukraine, while Distinguished National Security Fellow Christopher Costa was quoted in The Guardian on a striking Justice Department indictment suggesting Russia may be abandoning its long-standing taboo against ordering assassinations on U.S. soil.
ABC News | September 21, 2026
Mulroy joined ABC News’ Ian Pannell to discuss the latest headlines in the war in Ukraine as Ukrainian drones and missiles targeted Moscow.
The Guardian | September 20, 2026
“…directing surveillance and murder on US soil crosses a very different line from traditional espionage.”
Costa, executive director of the International Spy Museum, weighed in on an unsealed indictment alleging a Russian intelligence plot to assassinate a dissident in Washington, D.C. — a sign the Kremlin may be breaking a decades-old, unwritten rule against attacks on U.S. soil.
