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On Monday, Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse and Mazie K. Hirono filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking a federal judge to decide the legality of Matthe...
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We appear to be entering into a new geoeconomic world order, characterized by great power rivalry between the United States and China and the clear use of economic tools to achieve strategic goals. This ...
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Details of the interactions show why contacts between the president and the top officials investigating his White House were risky for all involved.
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American companies are getting hacked, and the Securities and Exchange Commission wants corporate executives to do something about it. According to a White House Council of Economic Advisers report relea...
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For more than a decade, the national security agencies of the federal government have repeatedly recognized climate change as a national security threat. Since 2010, the Department of Defense has publish...
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Editor’s Note: Although the Trump administration has made much of China's rise when it comes to trade, the president should be focused more on the security implications. Robert Ross of Boston College poi...
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Following the #NatSecGirlSquad’s first conference this week in Washington, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Jung Pak before a live audience at the Bier Baron. Jung is a senior fellow in the Brookings Instit...
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Largely irrelevant to President Trump were the potentially vast problems Whitaker’s appointment poses to the Justice Department’s regular law enforcement and national security activities.
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The front page of the Washington Post has a revelation: the CIA thinks that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had a direct role in the killing of Post correspondent Jamal Kashoggi. This is big news ...
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The Justice Department may have inadvertently revealed sealed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Matthew Kahn and Benjamin Wittes provided a guide for ques...
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Editor’s Note: The article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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A recent post on the New York Times’s At War blog begins with this hypothetical scenario:
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The Justice Department may have inadvertently revealed sealed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Seamus Hughes of GW’s Project on Extremism discovered on Thursday night a motion filed in ...
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There’s much that’s not clear about reports that the U.S. government may have filed charges against the Wikileaks founder. Here are some questions we’ll be asking when there’s more information.
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After brazenly interfering in the 2016 US election, Russia now “perceive[s] . . . its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian midterm operat...
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Writing in Lawfare in April 2018, I considered the role of foreign sovereign immunity in the Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit against the Russian Federation and Russian individuals and entities. T...
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Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor announced on Thursday that he is seeking the death penalty for five people accused in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reports the New York Times. He says the 15...
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A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018).
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On Nov. 15, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion by Concord Management and Concord Consulting LLC to dismiss charges filed in February by the spe...
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French President Emmanuel Macron got into a fight the other day with President Trump. That public contretempts obscured an equally significant international event—Macron gave the opening remarks at the I...
