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Congress Buys Itself Another Three Weeks on Section 702
On Dec. 21, the House and Senate voted 238-188 and 66-32, respectively, to pass a concurring resolution extending government funding until Jan. 19, 2018. One provision of that bill extended the FISA Amen... -
There Is No Truth Commission in L’Affaire Russe
On Thursday, Benjamin Wittes published his assessment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s Dec. 13 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. While I understand Ben’s considerable concern abo... -
Thoughts on Rod Rosenstein’s Testimony
I have not watched all of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. But I watched three hours of it, and that was quite enough to convey the distu... -
Live Stream: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Use of Force
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on "Using Force: Strategic, Political, and Legal Considerations." The committee will hear testimony from the fol... -
Livestream: Rosenstein Testifies Before House Judiciary on DOJ Oversight
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is testifying Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. before the House Judiciary Committee on Justice Department oversight. Watch the live stream below. -
The Public Isn’t Buying It: Confidence in the FBI is Very High
Memo to the President: Your attacks on the FBI aren’t working. President Trump has apparently decided that attacking federal law enforcement is a good defense strategy in L’Affaire Russe. Conservative m... -
Public Confidence in the Mueller Investigations and Other Russia Investigations
In late November, as part of our monthly tracking of confidence in institutions engaged in national security activities, we polled for the second month on the question of “How much confidence do you have... -
Congress Adapts to Calamity: The FY 2018 NDAA’s Climate Change Provisions
President Donald Trump is expected to sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018 into law in the next few days. -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: November 2017
In July we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. Last month, we expanded significantly the scope and range and ... -
The Future of Misinformation: A Lesson from ‘Access Hollywood’
At the end of November, the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump suggested to aides that he did not in fact make the offensive comments about women on the infamous “Access Hollywood” recor... -
Alan Dershowitz’s Worries About the Russia Investigation and the Criminalization of Politics
Worried about a “criminalized politics,” Alan Dershowitz argues that “malleable” laws should be reserved for proper and not blatantly political uses. He fears that partisans are failing to observe restra... -
We Need to Secure Voting Machines. But from What?
On Wednesday, I testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittees on Information Technology and Intergovernmental Affairs about the cybersecurity of voting machines.
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