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The Saudi-led coalition launched an assault on the Yemen port city of Hodeidah, reports CNN. Despite the U.N.’s attempts to broker a peace agreement between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels who hold the cit...
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is wrapping up an important phase in his investigation. Even as he brings new charges in the case against President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Mueller i...
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On Tuesday, in Singapore, after doubts about whether the Summit would happen, President Trump met for several hours with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, culminating in a joint declaration between the tw...
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President Trump and Kim Jong Un promised much in Singapore but provided few specifics, according to the New York Times.
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Emirati-backed Offensive against Strategic Yemeni City Appears Imminent
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On May 21, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Jam v.
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The U.K. government has released the following five codes of practice establishing procedures and safeguards for the use of the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016.
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On Tuesday, the White House issued the following joint statement after President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
President Donald J. Trump of the United States of Amer...
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Editor's Note: This post contains the text of a speech that Sen. Mark Warner (D.-Va.) delivered on Friday, June 8 at the National Security Agency’s 29th annual Law Day.
Good afternoon. Thank you, Glenn...
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In July, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of May.
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There is no serious argument that Robert Mueller’s appointment violates the Constitution.
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The 11th Circuit’s LabMD decision is a dish served cold for Michael Daugherty, the CEO of the defunct company. The decision overturns decades of FTC jurisdiction, acquired over the years by a kind of bur...
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The repeal of net-neutrality rules went into effect Monday morning, reports the New York Times. The Federal Communications Commission voted in December to repeal the Obama-era rules, which prohibited int...
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The Harvard National Security Journal’s spring issue, published last week, has five articles that may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
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“[The Islamic State]’s ideology is so dangerous that we cannot afford to show any leniency” —an Iraqi judge interviewed in Mosul (Dec. 13, 2017)
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Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar were my clients. Belhaj led a Libyan Islamist group that sought to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi; Boudchar, a Moroccan citizen, is his wife. The CIA abducted them in 20...
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President Trump has been merciful lately. In April, he pardoned Scooter Libby, the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false stateme...
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On June 6th, Sen. Bob Corker introduced legislation intended to restrict the president's authority to issue national security tariffs. The bill would require the president to receive congressional approv...
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In a June 6th ruling, the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed and remanded the case of a woman appealing an immigration judge's decision to deny her asylum application because of her provision of mate...
