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The acting attorney general’s past statements about the Russia probe raise genuine concerns about his service overseeing it.
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President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions today and replaced him on an interim basis with the attorney general’s own chief of staff, a man named Matt Whitaker. Whitaker has made repeated publi...
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President Trump asks for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ resignation. And Democrats retake the House, while Republicans expand their majority in the Senate.
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The Department of Justice has released a 2014 Office of Legal Counsel opinion approving airstrikes against the Islamic State under the president's Article II authority as commander-in-chief. The memo is ...
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On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions submitted his resignation, effective immediately, at the request of President Trump. Media reports say Matthew Whitaker, Session’s chief of staff, will take o...
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A Facebook executive admitted on Monday that the company failed to prevent the platform from being used to “foment division and incite offline violence” in Myanmar, says the New York Times. The company p...
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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...
