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What Tuesday’s Post Story Reveals About the Absurd OLC Opinions Protecting a President From Indictment—and Mueller’s Reading of his Authority
The Washington Post’s recent report that the president is a subject in the special counsel investigation raises a number of intriguing questions—among them, who leaked information about discussions betwe... -
Rational Security: The "Return of Susan" Edition
Susan is back with a hilarious story about how Devin Nunes sent her blood pressure soaring—and sent her into the delivery room. Robert Mueller tells the president’s lawyers that Donald Trump is the subje... -
Questions Congress Should Ask Mark Zuckerberg
In light of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed to testify before Congress. -
The Supreme Court of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg Floats a Governance Structure for Online Speech
Mark Zuckerberg is on a charm offensive. Fresh off a round of interviews with various media outlets following the revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data in the 2016 election, the Fa... -
A Hard Transparency Choice: What is WikiLeaks?
I’ve written on Lawfare about the intelligence community’s transparency plan and have previously outlined a framework for how we might think about transparency efforts. -
Trump’s New National Security Team Likely Spells Disaster for the Iran Nuclear Deal
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. -
A Preview of Oral Argument in Doe v. Mattis
On Thursday, April 5, the D.C. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Special Counsel Robert Mueller told President Trump’s lawyers that the president is a subject, but not currently a criminal target, of Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presid... -
SinoTech: US Proposes Tariffs On $50B of Chinese Imports After Concluding China Violates Trade Rules
The U.S.-China trade spat entered its latest phase on Tuesday afternoon as the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a list of proposed tariffs against Chinese goods. -
A Question of Time: Israel’s State Comptroller Finds Flaws in the IDF’s ‘Protective Edge’ Investigations
In July 2014, a deadly series of events began when Hamas operatives kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. After waves of arrests of Hamas leaders by Israeli security agencies i... -
How Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and Other Privacy Abuses Could Have Been Prevented
The shocking misuse of personal data by Cambridge Analytica, actively facilitated by Facebook, was a preventable harm. Hundreds of thousands of individuals who thought they were participating in an acade... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Special Edition: The President is a 'Subject'
The Washington Post reports this evening that: "Mueller told Trump’s attorneys the president remains under investigation but is not currently a criminal target." The report comes the same day as Alex van...
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