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In 1975, Philip Agee, a former CIA case officer who claimed he had become disillusioned with the CIA’s support for right-wing dictators in Central and South America, published “Inside the Company,” a tel...
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In the nearly two decades since 9/11, the United States has increasingly relied on security assistance programs to train, advise and equip foreign military and police forces in an effort to fight threats...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that the country would remain committed to the 2015 nuclear deal so long as the other signatories do the same, after weeks of Iran’s statements saying th...
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The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security are amending their respective regulations to limit asylum claims made by any migrants who attempt to enter the United States along the southe...
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Since it took effect in 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become one of the toughest data privacy regimes in the world.
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Editor’s Note: Ethiopia seemed on the path to reform, but a series of assassinations has rocked the country. Yale's Hilary Matfess warns that the violence may derail the positive changes being made under...
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On July 12, attorneys representing President Trump and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform argued before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in T...
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Our friends from the National Security Institute at George Mason University stopped by earlier this week for their 3rd edition of Faultlines, to discuss a slew of U.S. foreign policy challenges. Lester M...
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On Friday, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes announced a new podcast documentary series coming soon from Lawfare entitled, The Report—which will cover in serial form the story of the Mueller report. He...
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On this date in 1854, the U.S. Navy bombarded and torched the town of Greytown, in present-day Nicaragua. The event gave rise to a federal court opinion by Justice Samuel Nelson favored by modern-day law...
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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller offered to delay his congressional testimony, scheduled for July 17, by one week as part of negotiations with lawmakers, the Washington Post reports.
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With a new judge presiding, the military commission in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, et al. (the 9/11 military commission) reconvened June 17-21. See here for previous coverage on Lawfare.
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We are excited to announce a new project we’ve been working on for the past few weeks here at Lawfare. We are launching a new podcast documentary series on the Mueller Report. Called, “The Report,” it wi...
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In July 2017, 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 June 2019.
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On June 20, the United Nations Security Council passed a unanimous resolution to protect people with disabilities in armed conflict and ensure they have equal access to humanitarian assistance. The groun...
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The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled “Lessons from the Mueller Report, Part III: Constitutional Processes for Addressing Presidential Misconduct” at 9:00 a.m. on Friday. A video of th...
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On June 12, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Chinese firm Huawei Technologies Co. had asserted more than 200 patents against Verizon Communications Inc., reportedly demanding more than $1 bil...
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Multiple Iranian military vessels attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday before a British navy vessel “got between them and issued a verbal warning [to the Iranian s...
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Amid rising tensions with Iran following the country’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone last month, President Trump reportedly ordered and then called off military strikes against targets in Iran. So...