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This week we’ve got the concluding episode in our trilogy of deep dives exploring the history and evolution of our foreign-intelligence collection legal architecture (see here and here for the two earlie...
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Most Americans were likely distracted with the looming midterm election on the evening of Nov. 5 when Facebook published a lengthy report assessing the effect of the company’s presence in Myanmar.
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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The power balance in Washington has shifted at least a little now that the Democrats have won the House. In addition to being able to pass legislation and shape the budget, Democrats now have the power t...
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The final tally of U.S. troops deployed to the southern border in anticipation of the migrant caravan moving northward through Mexico has increased to 8,000 total troops, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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This episode puts our experts on the spot with an election-eve question: Will foreign governments attack US electoral rolls or vote-counting machinery in 2018? Remarkably, no one on our panel (Matthew He...
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A review of P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2018).
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U.S. Hits Iran with Second Wave of Sanctions
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On Nov. 6, 2018—Election Day—the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a joint statement, along with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the FBI, affirmi...
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National Security Agency General Counsel Glenn S. Gerstell made the following keynote address on Nov. 1 at the American Bar Association's Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference. (...
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On Monday, the Congressional Research Service published the following report on the 25th Amendment and the many controversies around its treatment of presidential disability.
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This morning, the second round of punitive U.S. sanctions on Iran went into effect. Multiple European countries, including the UK, France and Germany, are planning to work around these sanctions by way o...
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Before Donald Trump secured the Republican Party nomination in the summer of 2016, Lawfare and others hosted articles expressing concern about the potential impact of a Trump presidency on national-secur...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 12 p.m.: The Atlantic Council will host a discussion on the second round of U.S. sanctions on Iran. The Atlantic Council...
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Whichever party triumphs in the Nov. 6 midterm elections, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will have some new members when the 116th Congress convenes in January 2019. And according t...
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Editor’s Note: We know artificial intelligence will change the very nature of war—but we don't know how. The United States, China, and other powers recognize this transformative potential and, even as th...
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Today is the anniversary of, by some measures, the U.S. military’s worst battlefield defeat ever. On Nov. 4, 1791, U.S. military forces, under the command of Northwest Territory Governor and U.S. General...
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In the wake of the shooting in Pittsburgh at the Treet of Life synagogue, Quinta Jurecic explored the role of social media in providing a platform in far-right extremism.
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The rate and intensity of cyber attacks on financial institutions has increased in recent years, but the risk that these attacks pose to our financial stability remains understudied in the financial indu...
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The Commerce Department has put Chinese semiconductor company Fujian Jinghua on a list of companies that are no longer allowed to purchase some U.S. exports of components, software and technology goods, ...
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