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A suicide bombing at a pop concert in the British city of Manchester killed 22 people and wounded 59 other victims late last night. The bomber has been identified as Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old British s... -
Facebook Immune from Liability Based on Third-Party Content
In an interesting examination of the role of social media platforms and terrorism, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed two related complaints against Facebook on Thursd... -
Trump’s Big Middle East Trip, U.S. Targets Assad Forces in Syria, and Iran Goes to the Polls
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Could Trump Remove Special Counsel Robert Mueller? Lessons from Watergate
Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert S. Mueller “to serve as a Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice.” The order specified that “Section 600.4 through ... -
Trump’s First Foreign Trip and the Fate of the Paris Agreement: Reading the Tea Leaves from the G7 and NATO Summits
President Trump’s campaign promise to “cancel” the Paris Agreement, and his subsequent statement that he has an “open mind” on the question, will now be transported to the multilateral stage in a setting... -
Why Cross-Border Government Requests for Data Will Keep Becoming More Important
This post is part of a series written by participants of a conference at Georgia Tech in Surveillance, Privacy, and Data A -
Livestream: John Brennan Testifies Before the House Intelligence Committee
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan will testify today before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its Russia investigation. Recall that Brennan was reportedly so concerned ab... -
More on Rule of Law in the Trump Administration and the Role of Congress
The President, through his Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is fighting again with the Office of Government Ethics (OGE). The dispute is over OGE access to granted ethics waivers that have permitt... -
U.S. and France as a Case Study for Mutual Legal Assistance Challenges and Reform
This post is part of a series written by participants of a conference at Georgia Tech in Surveillance, Privacy, and Data Across Borders: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives. -
Flynn Misled Pentagon Security Clearance Investigators on Russia Payments, Cummings Says
Hours after former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn indicated his refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ranking Member of the House Committee on O... -
Michael Flynn Declines to Comply with Senate Intelligence Committee Subpoena
Former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has declined to comply with a subpoena issued by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to obtain records of Flynn's communications with Russi... -
Why Is the US More Likely to Sanction Chinese Companies for Supporting Iran than for Supporting North Korea?
Lost amid the fallout of President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week was the U.S. Treasury Department’s announcement of new sanctions on individuals and companies found to be supportin...
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