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A gunman opened fire on a meeting between Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller—the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan—and Afghan provincial officials, at least three of whom were killed in the attack. At least thre...
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Darren E. Tromblay has served the U.S. Intelligence Community, as an Intelligence Analyst, for more than a decade. He is the author of Political Influence Operations (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and the ...
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A review of Greg Miller, “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy” (HarperCollins Publishers, 2018)
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Two narratives about Russian interference in the 2016...
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Last June in a 5-4 ruling in Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court extended Fourth Amendment protections to an individual’s cell phone location data for the first time.
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It has now been two weeks without confirmation of Bloomberg’s reporting concerning a supply chain attack targeting SuperMicro motherboards from any news outlet.
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The disappearance of a Washington Post journalist becomes a foreign policy crisis for the Trump administration. U.S. and European intelligence officials say Iran may be planning attacks in Europe. And th...
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Turkish intelligence officials have audio recordings chronicling the brutal murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, says the New York Times. As the Turkish media is closely controlled by ...
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Pence Calls Out Chinese Intellectual Property Theft
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the arrest of a senior employee at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
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This article proposes the creation of an international organization modeled after the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to provide assistance and relief to vulnerable citizens and enterpris...
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Much has been written, on Lawfare and elsewhere, about the dangers of presidential interference with the Justice Department and, in particular, the special counsel’s investigation.
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On October 3, Benjamin Wittes co-hosted an event with his Brookings colleague, Norm Eisen, on The State of Rule of Law in the U.S. Ben moderated a panel on national security and law enforcement with Lawf...
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Welcome to the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast! We’re back with our usual mix of discussion and debate about the most-interesting legal developments relating to national security ove...
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In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from New York Times reporter Charlie Savage, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has declassified its implementation report on Pres...
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The United Arab Emirates hired American mercenaries to carry out an assassination program in Yemen, reports Buzzfeed News. U.S. law does not specifically prohibit American citizens from becoming mercenar...
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Consequences of Khashoggi Disappearance Hit Saudi Arabia
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Donald Trump’s disregard for governing norms is by now well established. It is partly but not entirely explained by his impulsiveness and lack of experience with government. A norm is, after all, a const...
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Today we interview Doug, the chief legal officer of GCHQ, the British equivalent of NSA. It’s the first time we’ve interviewed someone whose full identify is classified. Out of millions of possible pseud...
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In June, a grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted former Senate intelligence committee security director James Wolfe on three counts of making false statements to federal investigators. On Monda...
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On Sept. 25, the Justice Department announced a new policy on “Disclosure of Foreign Influence Operations” as part of an update of the U.S.
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