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Our guests this week are Paul Scharre from the Center for a New American Security and Greg Allen from the Defense Department’s newly formed Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Paul and Greg have a lot...
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On July 29, Attorney General William Barr overruled a Board of Immigration Appeals decision, writing that most nuclear families do not qualify as “particular social groups” for the purposes of the Immigr...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Dan Coates will step down as director of national intelligence (DNI) on August 15, President Trump announced in a tweet, CNN reports.Coates’ resignation letter is available here. Republican Rep. John Rat...
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Democrats had harsh words for the president during Robert Mueller’s appearance before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on July 24.
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Since the beginning of May 2019, violence has increased between Israel and militants in Gaza.
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Can the president appoint whomever he wishes to serve as acting director of national intelligence (DNI) during the period between the resignation of Dan Coats (effective Aug. 15) and Senate confirmation ...
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Review of Mary Shelley, “'Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds,’ ed. David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert.” (MIT Press, 2018)
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency had a major problem. The streets of Moscow were a virtually impossible operating environment due to heavy KGB surveillance and other operational di...
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Editor’s Note: Pakistan is where good policy options go to die. U.S. administrations have struggled to develop a coherent and effective policy toward Islamabad, trying to coerce and co-opt it, with limit...
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The good news is that national security bipartisanship in Congress lives. The bad news is that the only place it lives is in the pages of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian election inte...
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On Friday, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes shared the second episode of The Report, Lawfare’s podcast series telling the story contained in Robert Mueller’s 448-page report. The series is available o...
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The Supreme Court has granted a stay of an injunction on the Trump administration's construction of a wall along the southern border pursuant to a declaration of national emergency. Justices Ruth Bader G...
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit limited the scope of the government’s ability to prosecute people for illegally crossing the border, holding that only people who cr...
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The House Judiciary Committee has filed an application with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia requesting the release of grand jury material redacted from the Mueller report, along with...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee issued a report concluding that Russia targeted the election systems of all 50 U.S. states in 2016, the New York Times says. The report will be the first of five volumes...
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The story of the Russian hacking operation, the stealing of documents and emails from the DNC, DCCC and figures associated with the Clinton campaign, and the leaks of the stolen materials timed to impact...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Editor's note: This post has been updated to address the Guatemala Safe Third Country Agreement that United States and Guatemalan officials announced on Friday, July 26.
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Bob Mueller finally had his close up. Was he ready for it? Did he change any minds? Did we learn anything new about his investigation? We’ll talk about Mueller’s testimony this week before two congressio...