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NSPM-4: “Organization of the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and Subcommittees”: A Summary
This morning, Bloomberg reported that President Donald Trump had filed a revised National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-4) reorganizing the National Security Council. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Bloomberg tells us that Steve Bannon, Trump chief White House strategist, has been removed from the Principals Committee of the National Security Council. -
White House Releases Revised National Security Presidential Memorandum
The White House has released a revised National Security Presidential Memorandum reorganizing the structure of the National Security Council. The memorandum lists the Director of National Intelligence an... -
The CMCR’s Peculiar Request in the al-Qosi Litigation
I have been rather critical in the past of the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR)—the intermediate appellate court Congress created in 2006 to sit between the Guantánamo military commissions and ... -
Capitol Hill’s Love-Hate Relationship with FISA
You can always tell when it’s time to reauthorize a portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) because Congress starts wringing its hands about some aspect of the law. FISA is a law that... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Joshua Corman and Justine Bone
Episode 157 digs into the security of the medical internet of things. Which, we discover, could be described more often than we’d like as an internet of things that want to kill us. -
I Believe
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Trump’s Syria Conundrum
Reports and videos currently streaming from Syria reveal a new large-scale, regime-led attack by chemical weapons against the civilian population of the city of Idlib. Close to a hundred people have been... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The New York Times reports that the deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria killed dozens of people in the northern province of Idlib this morning. A few hours later, witnesses say that an ai... -
A Culture on Trial
PDF version A review of Kim Christian Priemel, The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence (Oxford University Press 2016). *** -
Sisi Gets Warm Welcome at White House, Tillerson Visits Turkey, and a Trump Tie to Russia Runs Through the Emirates
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Brief for Captain Nathan Smith's Challenge to Presidential War-making
Here is the brief for Captain Smith that was filed yesterday afternoon in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, along with the joint appendix. The case will be ready for argument later this ...
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