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President Trump issued Executive Order 13848 on Sept. 12 declaring election interference a national emergency. The order also sets up a protocol for applying sanctions to persons who conduct cyberattacks...
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There’s no shortage of news this week, but comparatively little of it is national security law news, and so we are back with a fresh deep dive episode. For better or worse, it’s our longest episode yet ...
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The Department of Defense has released a summary of its 2018 Cyber Strategy Report. The document is below:
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Security technologist Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World," argues that it won't be long before everything modern society relies ...
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Our interview this week is with Hon. Michael Chertoff, my former boss at Homeland Security and newly minted author of Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age. The conversation – ...
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President Trump ordered intelligence and law enforcement officials to declassify documents and text messages related to the ongoing Russia investigation despite protests from the intelligence community a...
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Every summer in recent decades, the House and the Senate intelligence committees articulate their priorities for the intelligence community for the coming fiscal year in the annual Intelligence Authoriza...
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Russia and Turkey Reach Agreement to Establish Demilitarized Zone in Idlib
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On Monday, the Trump administration applied to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a district court order in litigation related to the transgender servicemember ban. A district court ordered the g...
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North Korea is mimicking Pakistan’s 1998 successful nuclear strategy to develop nuclear capabilities without exacerbating sanctions by quietly developing nuclear weapons and reinforcing trade alliances w...
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Lawfare is growing, not just as a website but also as an organization. And we are hiring a new Director of Operations to help us grow. If you’re someone who loves Lawfare and wants to be involved—central...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m.: The Center for Strategic and International Studies will host an event called “A Discussion on National Security w...
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In the summer of 2016, a Facebook group called “Secure Borders” began fanning the flames of rumors that a young girl had been raped at knifepoint by Syrian refugees in Twin Falls, Idaho. The group accuse...
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Editor’s Note: Perhaps the biggest counterterrorism challenge facing the Trump administration is whether or not to keep a robust military presence in Syria now that the Islamic State has been forced unde...
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On the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Robert Chesney argued that Washington’s focus has shifted away from the threat of terrorism and the viability of our counterterrorism policy that dominated ou...
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On Friday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered a plea agreement with the special counsel. To discuss what the news means for Manafort, the Mueller investigation, and President Trump, Ben...
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Well, would you look at that: your hosts are back in town at the same time at last, and they’ve got a fresh episode covering some of the major national security legal developments of the past couple of w...
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The guilty plea former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered Friday marks a milestone in the Department of Justice’s efforts to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) more vigorously....
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Chinese human rights practices are in the news again. The White House is reportedly weighing sanctions against Chinese officials and companies that are engaged in or facilitating the mass surveillance an...
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According to countless media accounts and President Trump’s own lawyers, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is writing some