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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, December 18 at 10:00 am: The Woodrow Wilson Center will hold an event on The Catalan Crisis: Implications for Spain and Beyond. Josep Co...
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The other day I posted a tweetstorm on the issues raised by the Trump transition's letter to Congress relating to the Special Counsel's access to transition data stored at GSA. The TL;DR summary: Not m...
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Editor’s Note: The relationship between soldiers and civilians is a fundamental question for any democracy. In the United States, the military has long been respected, but only recently has it been idoli...
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President James Madison shaped the course of American history in not one, not two, but three different and foundational roles in the formation of the young republic. He was a drafter of the constitution,...
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Jordan Brunner commenced the week by reviewing the climate change provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. President Donald Trump signed the act on Tuesday. I posted his...
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Republicans question the integrity of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. President Trump says he will move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem (Tamara’s suggested article for reference). And Secr...
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We spend a lot of time on Lawfare describing the problems that result from data exfiltration, whether government policies should change as a result, etc. This post is a bit of a change; it's about techni...
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President Donald Trump said that there was tremendous anger over the FBI’s “disgraceful” behavior, criticizing the Bureau just before he appeared at its training facility in Quantico, Virginia, to praise...
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On Thursday, Benjamin Wittes published his assessment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s Dec. 13 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. While I understand Ben’s considerable concern abo...
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I’m struck by the kerfuffle over text messages sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom he was apparently having an affair. The messages bash Trump and seem to favor Clinton—f...
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The following is an independent assessment by British barrister David Anderson of nine internal reviews of British intelligence in connection with four terrorist attacks in the spring and summer of 2017.
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6,700 Rohingya died—including 730 children under the age of 5— in the first month of the Myanmar government’s crackdown on the Muslim ethnic minority group, according to the New York Times.
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In this episode, I interview Elsa Kania, author of a Center for a New American Security report on China’s plan for military uses of artificial intelligence—a plan that seems to have been accelerated by t...
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The Microsoft warrant case in the Supreme Court involves a demand by the U.S. government that Microsoft repatriate content data stored in a data center in Ireland and provide it to DOJ. The case raises a...
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Last week, the military commission in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al., which relates to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, convened for the first time in several weeks for hearings and testimony ...
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I have not watched all of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. But I watched three hours of it, and that was quite enough to convey the distu...
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Earlier this week, I wrote in Slate about how America’s military leaders have seemingly improvised a new norm of civil-military relations in response to President Donald Trump. The latest proving ground ...
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. was ready to talk to North Korea without any preconditions, CNN reported. The White House said the U.S. stance on the matter had not changed, but analysts s...
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on "Using Force: Strategic, Political, and Legal Considerations." The committee will hear testimony from the fol...
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is testifying Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. before the House Judiciary Committee on Justice Department oversight. Watch the live stream below.
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