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Last weekend, Jack Goldsmith argued that Robert Mueller erred in failing to apply the presidential clear statement rule in his analysis of presidential obstruction of justice. Benjamin Wittes responded t...
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I’m excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for a new Associate Editor at Lawfare.
This is a highly demanding role. It's a research assistantship at Brookings. But it's also a dual-h...
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Shortly after the special counsel’s report was released, I wrote three posts on Lawfare criticizing Robert Mueller’s constitutional analysis.
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President Trump agreed to a six-month delay on auto tariffs to be applied to close U.S. allies, including European nations and Japan, reported the New York Times.
The U.S. has reached an agreement to li...
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After years of focusing on counterterrorism, a mainly kinetic threat, the U.S. intelligence community must now adapt to a long-term cyber struggle with nation-state adversaries. This struggle includes el...
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President Trump issued an executive order instructing the Commerce Department to prevent U.S. telecommunications companies from using foreign-made equipment that could pose a national security threat to ...
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Donald Trump has stoked new fears of an imperial presidency. His obvious fascination with the powers of foreign autocrats is unprecedented for an American president.
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In this week’s episode, Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney debate and discuss the latest national security legal news, including:
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From April 30 to May 2, we conducted a nationwide survey asking respondents a series of questions regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. This survey was the third in a series; we condu...
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Tensions with Iran escalate amid new intelligence suggesting U.S. personnel in the Middle East could be at risk. The Russia investigation is now under investigation by a federal prosecutor. And two senio...
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed the following executive order, entitled “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain.”
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On May 14, attorneys representing President Trump and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform argued before Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Trump v. Commit...
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White House Counsel Pat Cipollone has sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler questioning the validity of the committee's investigation into, as the committee stated, "alleged ...
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At 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, the House Committee on the Judiciary will hear testimony from legal experts on the issue of executive privilege and congressional oversight.
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The United States Central Command issued an unusual public rebuke of an ally, challenging the statement made by British Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika, the deputy commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the ...
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The at-times fraught relationship between Kenya and Somalia took a new turn in 2014, when Somalia submitted a compromis before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) claiming that Kenya was conducting ...
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The New York Times published a major story last week, drawing on research from the cybersecurity company Symantec. The story revealed how a group of elite Chinese hackers known as APT3 had apparently gai...
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The Trump administration has updated the U.S. military plan against Iran, reports the New York Times. Senior national security officials met last week to discuss the revisions, which called for the deplo...
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Jared Cohen is the founder and CEO of Jigsaw and Alphabet Inc., who previously ran Google Ideas and served as a member of the Secretary of State's policy planning staff and as an advisor to Condoleezza R...