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Whatever your political outlook, the ferment surrounding last year’s presidential election raises important, unanswered questions: What, precisely, did the Russians do, and were any Americans involved? ...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, March 27th at 1pm: Mike Sfraga and John Higginbotham will discuss The North American Arctic: Building A Vision For Regional Collaboratio...
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CNN reports that House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) confirmed this morning that he was on the White House grounds the day before his announcement that he saw inf...
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President Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping next month. The White House may want to use the two-day summit to seek a point of clarification: Is Chinese law enforcement authoriz...
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A reminder that the next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm tomorrow, March 28, when Ben and Samuel Tadros, Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute's Center for...
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I agree with Susan and Ben that an independent national commission to investigate the Russia matter is, at this time, unrealistic. But I’m unconvinced by their argument that a select congressional commit...
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BERLIN – We live in an age when autocracies could be ushered in by the most fundamental expression of democratic participation—voting.
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Editor’s Note: North Korea is a problem that has vexed multiple administrations since the end of the Cold War. As the Pyongyang puzzle has grown more difficult to solve, policymakers increasingly look to...
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Don’t look now, but the Justice Department has just responded to key themes Benjamin Wittes and I have been writing about in connection with President Trump’s oath of office.
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On Friday, Virginia U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga upheld President Trump’s revised Refugee Executive Order (EO), ruling that the EO did not violate the Establishment Clause (see Josh Blackman’s d...
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Between leading the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's first open hearing on Russian election interference on Monday, and sparring with HPSCI Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes over Nunes's odd es...
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FBI Director James Comey kicked off this week by dropping the bombshell during the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s open hearing on Russian active measures during the campaign that ther...
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CNN informs us that House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has canceled the Committee’s scheduled open hearing next Tuesday with former Director of National Intellig...
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Bobby Chesney raised a number of issues regarding the Active Defense Certainty Act, and I’m just getting into it now. I think Bobby’s comments are spot on, but I want to amplify some of his concerns.
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Editor’s Note: The policies of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki left many Iraqis feeling marginalized by their new government, especially as Maliki consolidated his control after the U.S. with...
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On March 11, the Court of Military Commissions Review (CMCR)—the appellate court sandwiched between the military commissions and review at the D.C. Circuit court of appeals—issued a two-pronged order in ...
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Last week saw a flurry of federal court decisions on President Trump’s second travel ban order, along with an outpouring of critical commentary on what the courts got right and wrong. Here are three ques...
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We kick today’s session off as usual with attendance. Defendants Walid Bin’Attash, Mustafa al Hawsawi, and Khalid Shaikh Mohammad have all waived their right to be present at today’s sessions; only Ramzi...
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Tillerson Tells China What it Wants to Hear, while U.S. Partners Seek the Capability to Defend Themselves
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Anxious to kick off two weeks of pretrial hearings in the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and fellow 9/11 defendants, military judge Army Colonel James Pohl gavels us in at 8:59am.
Among preliminary...
