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News that the FBI’s embattled deputy director, Andrew McCabe, is stepping down broke suddenly today. McCabe has long planned to retire in March, and until recently, FBI Director Chris Wray has protected ...
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Axios has the scoop that the Trump national security team is considering a proposal to nationalize the 5G network buildout.
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The defense of democratic institutions, norms, values and culture does not always involve standing up for people who have acted heroically. Stories feel better, of course, when it does—when honor goes to...
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The fitness app Strava inadvertently exposed the locations of American military bases and personnel through a global “heat map” of user activity, the New York Times reports. Among the exposed locations a...
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Anonymity does not equate to privacy or security! “An interactive map posted on the Internet that shows the whereabouts of people who use fitness devices such as Fitbit also reveals highly sensitive info...
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Monday, Jan. 29 at 1:00 pm: The Center for Strategic and International Studies will host an event on Russia’s Electronic Warfare Capabilities to...
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A review of Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison,” (Random House, 2017).
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Israel has confronted terrorist attacks for many decades, but in all of those years, the Knesset and the public have not seriously considered whether the justice system should sentence convicted terroris...
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Editor’s Note: Despite the size of its population and growing importance, Bangladesh gets little attention in policy circles. This is true even though radical terrorist groups like the Islamic State are ...
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“[T]he WH Counsel seems to be renting out space in his office to the New York Times,” notes Bill Kristol in reference to the sympathetic New York Times story yesterday about White House Counsel Don McGah...
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Lawfare contributor and University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck argued before the Supreme Court last week in United States v. Dalmazzi, a case concerning the appointment of military judges to t...
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On Thursday, the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in June. Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes reacted to the story.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray resists administration pressure to clean house at the bureau. Bob Mueller’s Russia probe interviews Jeff Sessions and talks to Jim Comey. And Rex Tillerson presents a new U....
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Thursday night's New York Times report of the president’s failed move in June 2017 to dismiss Special Counsel Robert Mueller lays out a basic narrative: President Trump ordered Mueller’s firing, but rele...
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The Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report on Jan. 10 entitled “Putin’s Asymmetrical Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for U.S. National Security.” Th...
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Last June, the president ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, reports the New York Times. When President Donald Trump ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to transmit the president’s o...
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On Jan. 17, cybersecurity and software vendor Kaspersky Lab filed for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) order designating the company’s software as an “informa...
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The first two essays of this three-part series on Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison” discussed Madison’s theory of war powers and some of its failure or adaptation in practice. This last e...
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The New York Times Thursday evening is reporting that back in June, President Trump tried to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller—but couldn't quite pull it off. We, however, pulled off a special edition ...
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President Trump declared that he is willing to speak under oath to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the New York Times reports. Trump, responding to questions from reporters, added that his campaign did n...
