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The Lawfare Podcast: Graham Allison on ‘Destined for War’
This week on the Lawfare Podcast, Jack Goldsmith interviews Graham Allison at the Hoover Book Soiree about Allison's new book, “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?” The conv... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump gave a stunning interview to The New York Times in which he criticized the leadership of the FBI, the Justice Department, and the special counsel’s office. -
How White House Threats Condition Mueller’s Reality
What does the world look like today if you’re Robert Mueller? You’ve got a huge, sprawling, immeasurably complicated job, and the President of the United States has just put you on notice of what you al... -
Justice Department Prosecutes Al Qaeda Suspect in Federal Court
The New York Times reports that the Justice Department has brought Al Qaeda suspect Ali Charaf Damache to Philadelphia to face prosecution in federal court, where a grand jury indicted him in 2011. The f... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Members of President Donald Trump’s legal team are exploring ways to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 ele... -
Pretextual Protectionism? The Perils of Invoking the WTO National Security Exception
On Wednesday, Axios wrote a piece outlining how President Trump’s own statements could threaten his trade policy objectives: President Trump wants to invoke a national security provision to stop the ‘d... -
Water Wars: It’s Time to “Get Used to It” in the South China Sea
Chinese Officials Dismiss Tokyo’s Concerns While Conducting Extensive Operations in Waters Near Japan, Taiwan, and the United States -
Rediscovering Vulnerabilities
Software and computer systems are a standard target of intelligence collection in an age where everything from your phone to your sneakers has been turned into a connected computing device. A modern gove... -
The Coming Constitutional Crisis?
The notion of a “constitutional crisis” is not a well-established concept within American legal theory, but it certainly has been a part of popular political discourse. It gives expression to the recurri... -
Encryption Substitutes
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Predicting Support for Section 702 in the Senate
The many controversies currently distracting Congress, the White House, and Washington more broadly cannot change an impending deadline: the December 31st expiration of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) and ... -
Loyalty and Principle in the Trump White House
We don’t yet know why Mark Corallo, the spokesman for President Trump’s personal legal team, resigned yesterday. Politico, citing anonymous sources, provides a host of possible reasons:
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