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National security adviser John Bolton is pushing to eliminate the cybersecurity coordinator in the White House, according to Politico. The position leads National Security Council staffers who manage int...
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The Senate intelligence committee has said that a small number of states had their election computer defenses breached by Russian hackers in 2016. Assume, as the report writes, that those hackers were li...
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In his Tuesday post in support of Gina Haspel’s nomination to be director of the CIA, Benjamin Wittes wrote about “the insulation that Haspel stands to provide for the agency from a president hostile to ...
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News reports suggest that new national security adviser John Bolton is thinking about eliminating the cybersecurity coordinator position, known as the “cyber czar,” that Rob Joyce will soon vacate.
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There’s plenty to chew on in the 79 pages of opinions from the D.C. Circuit in Doe v. Mattis—in which a divided panel affirmed a district court injunction blocking the transfer of a U.S. citizen captured...
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On Tuesday, Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied Khalid Ahmed Qassim’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Russell Spivak summarized the joint status report...
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Prosecuting John Doe seemed unviable at first. Things may be different now.
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What to make of the court's split decision.
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President Trump decides to undo the Iran deal. Gina Haspel faces a grilling in the Senate. And Devin Nunes wants information that intelligence officials fear could jeopardize a source.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has released its opinion affirming the lower court's injunction on the U.S. military's planned transfer of John Doe, a U.S. citizen held in military custody...
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Unveiled financial records of Essential Consultants LLC—the company used by President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels—reveal payments from a firm associated...
