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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The White House indicated it is inclined to approve the release of the Democratic rebuttal to the memo released by Rep. Devin Nunes alleging abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department in their efforts ... -
Document: Transcript of HPSCI Vote to Release the Democratic Memo
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has released the transcript of the Feb. 5 business meeting in which it voted to release the HPSCI minority rebuttal to the Nunes memo. You c... -
Documents: FOIA Suit on the Legal Basis of Syrian Airstrikes
In May 2017, the nonprofit Protect Democracy filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the Trump administration's legal justification behind the U.S. airstrikes in Syria during April of t... -
The Flawed Approach to China in the Trump Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review
The Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) describes China as a hostile great power pursuing “assertive military initiatives” and new “ways and means to counter U.S. conventional military ca... -
Hard Olympic Security Choices: What to Watch for in Pyeongchang
The Olympic games are more than just sport. The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea have begun. For two weeks, athletes from around the world will careen down mountains and glide on mirror-... -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: January 2018
In July, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of January. -
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Vacates and Remands District Court Ruling in Linde v. Arab Bank
On February 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed down a decision in Linde v. Arab Bank. The appellate court vacated and remanded the district court's ruling that Arab Bank could be ... -
Summary of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
The Nuclear Posture Review is a legislative-mandated review undertaken by the Department of Defense that outlines U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture for the next five to 10 yea... -
The Demagogue as President: Speech, Action and the Big Parade
We are constantly confronted with the question of how seriously to take the president’s words. By one interpretation, not so much: His verbal excesses and outrages should not be confused with action. Thi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee authored a letter to committee chairman Chuck Grassley asking for public hearings on Russian interference in the U.S., Politico reports. In the letter, Democra... -
Today’s Revolution: Cybersecurity and the International Order
PDF Version A review of Lucas Kello’s The Virtual Weapon and International Order (Yale University Press, 2017). *** -
Why Latin America Needs to Prepare Now for Election Meddling
The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections caught the world by surprise. This wasn’t because election interference of that kind hadn’t happened before—it had, just ask the Ukrainians—but simpl...
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