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The United Kingdom has been a key partner in the United States’ efforts to reform the process that law enforcement officials use to make cross-border requests for data. These efforts address both foreign...
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President Trump’s trip to Europe was not a complete failure -- his speech in Poland struck me as reasonable and Presidential. But his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and their discussion o...
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Trump Administration Agrees to Russia’s Ceasefire Proposal in Syria
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The Trump White House’s key defensive wall has developed some major cracks.
Ever since the first revelations of L’Affaire Russe, President Trump and his defenders have insisted that there’s no evidence ...
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In this episode, we interview Jim Miller, co-chair of a Defense Science Board panel that reported on how the US is postured for cyberconflict and the importance of deterrence. The short answer: deterring...
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In June 2016, Donald Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised to provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton, The New York Times reports. In the meeting, which included adviser J...
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Recent polling data on the Russia investigation underscores the degree to which partisanship taints Americans’ assessment of security politics. Not only are Americans intensely polarized in their assessm...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released documents governing intelligence community dissemination of information regarding members of Congress and congressional staff, known as th...
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Several analysts, including Mike Schmitt and Liis Vihul at Just Security and Arun Sukumar at Lawfare, have highlighted (here and here) the collapse of the 2017 Group of Government Experts on Developments...
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Exactly what type of issue is the question of immigration? The question may seem overly theoretical, but how you answer it very much sets the frame for how you then deal with the question.
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Remember to join us at Hoover this Wednesday, July 12, when Jack Goldsmith will interview Graham Allison on his new book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?.
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Christopher Wray will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week as the committee considers his nomination to be the new Director of the FBI. Here are twenty questions I urge senators to ask ...
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Editor’s Note: Since 9/11, the United States has pushed all its allies to crack down on terrorism to prevent them from launching attacks or aiding others who might do so. President Trump has doubled down...
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This week, Ben discusses recent events in cybersecurity with Matt Tait. Matt shared his views on WannaCry, NotPetya, and what companies and governments can do to protect against such attacks in the futur...
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Acting quickly, the Ninth Circuit on Friday dismissed Hawaii’s appeal of Hawaii District Judge Derrick Watson’s denial of the state’s motion to clarify the Supreme Court’s stay regarding President Trump’...
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Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes announced Lawfare's new partnership with Foreign Policy magazine called Lawfare@FP. In their inaugural column as part of the partnership, they explain that the possibi...
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Most Americans might consider the events occurring in Ukraine—a distant conflict somewhere along the border between the Russian Federation and Western Europe—to be someone else’s problem. What that persp...
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Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin today at the G20 Summit, the AP reports. The meeting, originally slotted for 35 minutes, ran almost two hours long. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Forei...
