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In August 2017, the Senate passed the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act 98-2; the House voted 419-3.
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Last week, CIA Director Mike Pompeo visited the American Enterprise Institute to join AEI Resident Fellow Marc Thiessen for a conversation to reflect on his first year running the agency and his vision f...
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Since last week, House Republicans have been pushing for the public release of a classified memo alleging government abuse of surveillance authorities and written by House Permanent Select Committee on I...
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On Monday evening, the House intelligence committee voted along party lines to release Chairman Devin Nunes’s memo on alleged government surveillance abuses and to block the release of Democrats’ rebutta...
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Over the weekend some conservative commentators pushed back on my tweet-claim that President Trump has “threaten[ed] DOJ/FBI over and over in gross violation of independence norms.” The Justice Departmen...
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The Harvard National Security Journal’s fall issue, published earlier this week, has five articles that may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
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U.S. Policy in Syria Vague as Turkish Offensive Continues
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Whether they call it the fitbit or the “Ohsh*t!bit,” governments are learning that the exercise internet of things is giving away their geospatial secrets at a rapid clip. Nick Weaver walks us through wh...
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An expose in Politico by Josh Meyer entitled “The secret backstory of how the Obama administration let Hezbollah off the hook” makes a damning charge: “In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with ...
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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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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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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