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The Chilcot Inquiry into the Blair Government’s 2003 decision to go to war with Iraq examines at length the role of the lawyers under immense policy and political pressure.
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Whatever economic problems China and Russia may be experiencing, the foreign policy of both countries of growing importance to global peace and security. Russia’s military intervention in Syria and Ukrai...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on July 13, when Ben interviews Steve Budiansky about his new book, Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers ...
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A review of Charles Lister's The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency (Oxford, 2015).
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The confrontation this week between FBI Director James Comey and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would have been a riveting drama-filled showdown over the Clinton email investigation....
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Rishabh Bhandari published FBI Director James Comey’s public statement after Comey had announced that the Bureau would not recommend charges be filed against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private emai...
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Guess what we talked about on Rational Security this week. That's right: Hillary Clinton will not be prosecuted over her use of a private email server. The death toll of a bombing in Baghdad approaches 3...
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Although there has been some progress in forming a national unity government in Libya, “unity” is a rather inapplicable word for th...
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At least one sniper, who said he wanted to target white police officers, killed five officers and wounded another seven along with two civilians in Dallas last night. According to the city’s police chief...
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Let me start by saying that I do not dissent from FBI Director James Comey's decision to give the remarkably fulsome account we saw this week of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, both in his lengt...
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Last Tuesday, the FBI arrested a 26 year-old man just outside Washington, DC in Sterling, Virginia. According to the Justice Department’s press release, Bailor Jalloh was charged with attempting to provi...
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National Security Council veterans Ari Schwartz and Rob Knake recently released a paper entitled Government’s Role in Vulnerability Disclosure. The paper, published by Harvard’s Belfer Center, catalogues...
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BYU law professor Eric Talbot Jensen has a new article posted to SSRN (appearing in Brigham Young University Law Review) titled, "Presidential Pronouncements of Customary International Law as an Alternat...
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FBI Director James Comey testified in front of the House Oversight and Governance Reform Committee for nearly five hours today. Under scathing and often incredulous questioning by House Republicans, Come...
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Edward Snowden criticizes Russia’s mass surveillance law, and a Russian official retaliates by outing him ‒ as a Russian intelligence source. Silent Circle, the phone company that built its marketing on ...
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Earlier today, State Department Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure Lee S. Wolosky and his Defense Department counterpart Paul M. Lewis testified before the the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding...
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Iraq’s Health Ministry disclosed that the death toll from a suicide bombing in Baghdad this weekend has reached 292. The Islamic State took credit for the attack, which came just days after Iraqi securit...
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Last week I noted that the foreign ministries of Russia and China announced plans to issue a joint statement on the "promotion of international law" during the June 25, 2016 visit of President Vladimir P...
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At Time.com I speculate about why FBI Director Comey took the unusual step of publicly summarizing the nature and conclusions of the Clinton email investigation, and then announcing the FBI’s recommendat...
