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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Friday, April 13, President Trump announced that the U.S., France, and the U.K. launched a series of airstrikes in Syria in response to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in the formerly rebel... -
CIA Releases Declassified Memo on Haspel Involvement in Destruction of Tapes
The CIA released a declassified December 2011 memo by Michael Morell, then the deputy director, about Gina Haspel’s involvement in the destruction of detainee interrogation tapes in 2005. President Trump... -
Rational Security: The ‘I Don’t Get Confused’ Edition
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Will Iran Attack Israel over the Syrian Conflict? It’s Only a Matter of Time
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. -
Document: DNC Sues Russia, Trump Campaign and WikiLeaks for Election Interference
On Friday, the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and associated persons, an... -
Ted Cruz vs. Section 230: Misrepresenting the Communications Decency Act
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is critical to Facebook’s existence. Under Section 230, the platform is immune from liability that might otherwise be incurred from its users’ posts. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Today’s post is shorter than usual. Our normal Headlines and Commentary coverage will return Monday. The Justice Department inspector general referred Andrew McCabe’s case to federal prosecutors for ... -
R.I.P. Congressional War Power
President Donald Trump has ordered significant military strikes against assets of the Assad regime in Syria. -
Document: Judge Chutkan Enjoins John Doe's Transfer
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the transfer of John Doe, an American citizen held in U.S. military custody in Ir... -
Get Yer Comey Memos Here
Earlier today, the Justice Department provided copies of ex-FBI Director James Comey's memos of his conversations with President Trump to the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee, t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
South Korean President Moon Jae In announced Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will no longer demand the removal of American troops from the Korean peninsula as a prerequisite for denucleariz... -
The Psychiatrist’s Goldwater Rule in the Trump Era
PDF Version A review of Bandy X. Lee’s “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” (Thomas Dunne, 2017). ***
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