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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Kremlin announced Thursday that it will expel 150 Western diplomats and shutter the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg, the New York Times reports. Moscow’s decision comes in response to the West’s exp... -
Rational Security: The “All the President’s Lawyers” Edition
Like Goldilocks in search of porridge, the President can’t seem to find the lawyer who’s just right. The U.S. expels Russian diplomats, but Trump continues to hold his fire against Putin. And Mark Zucker... -
Punishing Tomorrow's Tweeting Goebbels
PDF Version A review of Gregory S. Gordon, “Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition” (Oxford, 2017). *** -
‘What Mueller Knows’: Ensuring a Special Counsel Report in the Worst-Case Scenario
Even as President Trump has escalated his attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the congressional leadership has spurned movement on proposed legislation to protect the investigation. Republicans ha... -
Breaking the Encryption Stalemate: New Research on Secure Third-Party Access
Last month, the National Academies released their report on potential solutions to the problem of law enforcement access to encrypted data. The reaction was polite but unenthusiastic. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Chinese government announced Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing from Sunday to Wednesday, AP reports. The unofficial trip marked Kim’s fir... -
Inter-Nyet: The Difficulty of Technological Sovereignty in Russia
On March 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his annual address to the Federal Assembly, Russia’s version of Congress. Coming on the eve of the 2018 Russian presidential election, the speech laid ou... -
Seven Years into the Syrian War, Is There a Way Out?
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Taking the Mueller Protection Bills Seriously: A Response
Last Monday, I wrote a lengthy post about why Congress should pass the pending, bipartisan bills to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired without good cause—and why the proffered consti... -
FOSTA: The New Anti-Sex-Trafficking Legislation May Not End the Internet, But It’s Not Good Law Either
Amid the chaos of the last week, one of the most significant pieces of internet legislation of the last two decades went relatively unnoticed. -
The International Criminal Court and the Trump Administration
In a post earlier this week, David Bosco speculated how John Bolton’s appointment as national security adviser might affect the Trump administration’s reaction if the International Criminal Court opens a... -
The National Security Law Podcast: Can You DIG It?
It has been another not-at-all slow week. On tap for today:
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