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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, is testifying Tuesday before the three House committees handling the impeachment inquiry, reports the New York Times. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Phil Mudd on CIA and Enhanced Interrogations
Philip Mudd is currently a counterterrorism and national security analyst with CNN, but before that, Mudd spent 25 years working at the Central Intelligence Agency, on the NSC staff, and eventually at th... -
What Do Scholars Say About the Impeachment Power?
Then-Rep. Gerald Ford once defined an impeachable offense as “whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.” But legal scholars have concluded that ... -
Class Actions and Due Process Relief for Immigration Detainees After Jennings v. Rodriguez
A U.S. district court has limited the ability of immigration detainees to use an important procedural tool to challenge their detention. With the ruling, detainees are restricted in their ability to brin... -
The Mueller Report and ‘National Security Investigations and Prosecutions’
When Doug Wilson and I set out to write the first edition of “National Security Investigations and Prosecutions” (NSIP), the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were still recent, George W. Bush was in his first ... -
Statement of NSC Ukraine Expert on the Zelensky Call
Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a U.S. Army officer and the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, will appear before the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. He will report that he raised ... -
The Week That Will Be
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, at 10:00 a.m.: The House Armed Services Committee's Future of Defense Task Force will hold its inaugural hearing on theories of victory. The task force will hear testimony from... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Trump announced on Sunday that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, was dead following an American military operation in Syria this weekend, reports the New York Times. -
Applying the CLOUD Act to the U.S.-U.K. Bilateral Data Access Agreement
On Oct. 3, the United States and the United Kingdom signed the first-ever executive agreement under the CLOUD Act, a 2018 law that authorizes the U.S. to enter into information-sharing agreements with ot... -
The Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: Syria and The Al-Baghdadi Raid
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, died in a raid conducted by U.S. Special Operation Forces. The president used highly unusual languag... -
The Justice Department Should Share More Information on the Durham Investigation
The New York Times and other media outlets, citing anonymous sources, recently reported that the Department of Justice inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation has “shifted” from an administr... -
Terrorism Prosecution Updates: Spring to Late Summer, 2019
The U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria and the subsequent Turkish invasion of the region has brought new urgency to the question of how to handle the foreign fighters who are now detained in Syria and I...
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