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The week started with President Donald Trump embroiled in another controversy, as the publication of Fire and Fury sparked new conversations about the president's competence. Bob Bauer suggested that Tru...
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Late Jan. 11, the Department of Commerce issued a report to President Donald Trump detailing whether steel imports threaten U.S. national security. The president now has 90 days to decide how his adminis...
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So what to make of President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he may not submit to an interview with the special counsel? He has said that he will wait and see, and that he plans to consult with “the attor...
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The Trump administration signals it may launch a military strike on North Korea—or not. The U.S. announces it’s cutting aid to Pakistan. And the originator of the Steele dossier tells his side of the sto...
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A review of David Stevenson's 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution (Oxford, 2017).
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President Donald Trump is expected to announce today that he will continue to waive sanctions on Iran as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, the New York Times reported. Trump will set a deadline for Congress...
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Thanks to Professor Greg McNeal at Pepperdine University School of Law, an interesting Justice Department policy document has come to light.
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Or maybe we need a new definition of cyberinsecurity. Whatever it is, the current U.S. government definition is outdated. But I should start at the beginning …
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The House voted to renew Section 702 for another six years, Axios reports. An amendment imposing limits that the intelligence community opposed failed in the House earlier in the day.
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Judge William Alsup halted the Trump administration’s plan to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, because he found that the challengers were “likely to succeed on the meri...
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President Trump tweeted lies against his own intelligence community in the course of signaling opposition to a legislative priority of his own administration on a crucial national security priority at an...
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Three congressional committee hearings in late 2017, with representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter, were high-profile examples of the tide of public opinion changing against the major tech compa...
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President Donald Trump is expected to continue economic sanctions relief to Iran as part of the Iran nuclear deal, but he will impose new targeted sanctions on Iranian individuals and businesses for thei...
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In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take on three sets of issues under the heading of national security law:
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To many Libyan households, the top security threat plaguing their daily lives isn’t the risk of being caught in the crossfire between contending militias, falling victim to a jihadi group, or being kidna...
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The new year has not, so far, seemed to have brought with it a new zenith for U.S.-Pakistan relations. On Jan. 1, President Donald Trump tweeted that Pakistan has offered “nothing but lies & deceit” in e...
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In a series of tweets on New Year’s Eve, President Donald Trump expressed strong support for Iranians protesting against their autocratic regime. He added that the United States would be “watching very c...
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The Trump Administration's decision to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvadorans is garnering nothing but condemnation. Typical is report by the Washington Post headlined (on line) "Tr...
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Behind the legend of Vladimir Putin, which America’s obsession with Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections has only bolstered, hides a complex political landscape, history and—of course—president.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke on Jan. 9 to the International Conference on Cyber Security. The text below is his speech as prepared for delivery.
Raising Our Game: Cyber Security in an Age of Dig...
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