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Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: September 2017
In July we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. -
On National Security and Demagoguery: Remarks to the Muslim Public Affairs Council
I was deeply moved Wednesday evening to accept the Muslim Public Affairs Council's Empowering Voices award, alongside Tumblr CEO David Karp and Stosh Cotler of Bend the Arc. I gave the following remarks,... -
Protecting Electoral Infrastructure–Klobuchar/Graham and the NDAA
Our electoral infrastructure consists of two distinct pieces (or so it seems to me): a broader public context in which elections occur and a narrower system of election management. To date, almost everyt... -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: August 2017
Last month we began a polling project to measure the public’s confidence in government on national security matters on an ongoing, consistent basis. The goal is to try to establish a baseline of public o... -
Open-Source Software Won't Ensure Election Security
The technology behind elections is hard to get right. Elections require security. They also require transparency: anyone should be able to observe enough of the election process, from distribution of bal... -
Marriage of Convenience? Liberals and the Intelligence Community Come Together Over the Russia Connection
As Americans gathered to watch James Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a meme emerged on certain corners of the left-leaning internet: people had a crush on the former FBI director.... -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: A New Polling Project
For the past several months, we have been quietly plotting to begin developing better systematic data on public opinion and national security policy. As one of us noted recently, there’s virtually no lon... -
Jack Goldsmith's Interview With Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of the New York Times, on Publication Decisions About Intelligence Secrets
Editor's note: In response to criticism from CIA Director Mike Pompeo, the New York Times' national security editor over the weekend defended the newspaper's -
What Public Opinion of the Russia Investigations Reveals About Trust in Democratic Institutions
Recent polling data on the Russia investigation underscores the degree to which partisanship taints Americans’ assessment of security politics. Not only are Americans intensely polarized in their assessm... -
The Next FBI Director Should Look a Lot Like Merrick Garland
This morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he had spoken to President Trump regarding James Comey’s replacement for the FBI Director and recommended Merrick Garland. McConnell isn’t t... -
A Foreign Intelligence Analyst Report on President Trump
In our previous jobs as CIA analysts, we wrote analyses on foreign countries, leaders, and other political figures for senior U.S. policymakers like the President and a small number of Cabinet-level offi... -
Renaissance of the Militant Democracy?
BERLIN – We live in an age when autocracies could be ushered in by the most fundamental expression of democratic participation—voting.
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