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Livestream: House and Senate Committee Hearings on Foreign Policy and National Security
Tuesday is a busy day on the hill. The following hearings may be of interest to Lawfare readers. The House Committee on Armed Services is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. on the National ... -
A Timeline of the House Intelligence Committee Chairman: All the Nunes That’s Fit to Print
The furor over the classified memo prepared by House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes has reached a fever pitch now that the memo has been released. The memo has become a matter of great parti... -
Document: Nuclear Posture Review 2018
The Secretary of Defense has released the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review. The full document is below: -
Document: Nunes Memo
The House intelligence committee majority staff released a memo on alleged intelligence abuses on Friday. The full memo is below. -
National Security Highlights in the 2017 State of the Union
We watched the State of the Union so you don’t have to. With an eye towards the national security sections of the speech, we’ve selected the parts we think are most relevant to Lawfare readers, organizi... -
Hezbollah, Drugs, and the Obama Administration: A Closer Look at a Damning Politico Piece
An expose in Politico by Josh Meyer entitled “The secret backstory of how the Obama administration let Hezbollah off the hook” makes a damning charge: “In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with ... -
Sen. Cardin's Russia Report Wants to Hold Social Media Companies Accountable, but Its Recommendation Falls Short
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Anything New Under the Sun? Nuclear Responses to Cyberattacks.
A recent New York Times story regarding the draft Nuclear Posture Review said: A newly drafted United States nuclear strategy that has been sent to President Trump for approval would permit the use of ... -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: December 2017
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 December. -
Elections are a Cybersecurity Problem
My good friend, Herb Lin, has suggested that “election interference is not a cybersecurity issue.” His point, with which I completely agree, is that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election was not the pro... -
Election Hacking, As We Understand It Today, Is Not A Cybersecurity Issue
At a Senate intelligence committee hearing in November on Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S. Elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said about Russian interference in the 2016 election, “What we're talkin... -
Will an Amendment to Israel's National Security Law Change the Rules of the Game?
The constitutional authority over the use of force by the United States has been a subject of ongoing legal and political debates, including on Lawfare. There are disagreements about the proper scope of ...
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