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Livestream: House and Senate Hearings on Foreign Policy and National Security
The Senate Committee on Armed Services is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on "United States Cyber Command." The committee will hear testimony from Adm. Michael Rogers, commander of U.S. Cy... -
2018 Election Vulnerability: Voter Registration Systems
The Russian information-operation strategy can be summed up as “chaos monkeys”: agents seeking to destabilize the United States by exploiting fissures in our society. The Mueller indictments announced Fr... -
Andrew C. McCarthy Changes His Tone on Obstruction of Justice
No sooner did the internet ink dry on my analysis of Andrew C. -
Document: FISC Responses to Requests from House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sent the following letters to the chairmen of the House intelligence and judiciary committees on Thursday. Letter to House intelligence committee Chairman Dev... -
Documents: Congressional Task Force on Election Security January 2018 Report and the Election Security Act
On Wednesday, House Democrats' Congressional Task Force on Election Security released a report urging action on election security in advance of this year's midterm elections. Reps. Bennie Thompson and Ro... -
Livestream: House and Senate Hearings on Foreign Policy and National Security
Wednesday is a busy day on the hill. The following House and Senate hearings on foreign policy and national security may be of interest to Lawfare readers. -
Livestream: Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity Hearing on Election Security
The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity is holding a hearing Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 pm on the Defense Department's role in protecting democratic elections. The subcommittee will hear t... -
Livestream: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on World Wide Threats
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 9:30 am on World Wide Threats. The committee will hear testimony from the following witnesses: Mike Pompeo, Direct... -
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... -
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. -
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... -
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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