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This Headlines and Commentary post is shorter than usual. Our normal coverage will resume tomorrow.
The Pentagon is considering a new system for awarding contracts to defense manufacturers, reports the ...
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On Monday, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against a motion challenging the constitutionality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. The...
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Editor’s note: Over the next week, Lawfare will be running a series of essays on federalist governance in the Middle East. This introductory essay is the first in the series. Links to subsequent essays w...
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A little-noticed Watergate-era opinion addresses “Presidential Amenability to Judicial Subpoenas.”
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Editor’s Note: One of President Trump's more surprising, and more ambitious, decisions is to create a sixth branch of the military dedicated to space. Such a move would be historic, but would it be a goo...
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President Trump surprised many legal experts on Sunday when he tweeted that the purpose of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was “to get information on an opponent.” Bob Bauer outlined the many ways that...
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The Nazis are coming to Washington this weekend. Counter-protesters are organizing. Antifa is showing up.
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There’s a new twist in one of the stranger subplots of L’Affaire Russe: Buzzfeed News reports that Peter Smith, a Republican operative who reportedly sought to obtain missing Hillary Clinton emails durin...
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How a Republican operative’s efforts to find 33,000 emails may have intersected with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
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Prosecutors in the Manafort trial are expected to rest their case today, according to the Associated Press. The trial enters its ninth day on Friday. So far, the prosecution has called over 20 witnesses,...
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Sixteen declassified cables were released on Friday that detail the enhanced interrogation techniques used at a CIA black site in Thailand during the time it was overseen by CIA director Gina Haspel in 2...
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Major technology and social-media companies— think Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google— wield tremendous power. Given their reach, their financial heft, their importance to vast swaths of customers d...
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Never before in history have terrorists had such easy access to the minds and eyeballs of millions,” declared one journalistic account of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine and proficient use of Twi...
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The U.S. imposed new sanctions on Russia in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter earlier this year in the United Kingdom, reports BBC.
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It had to happen sooner or later: an actual slow week for national security law! Ugh! Well, time to make lemonade from the lemons. A slow week in NSL news means that we can take a run at a format that...
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Review of Loch Johnson’s “Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States” (Oxford University Press, 2018).
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There are abundant recent examples of Congress exercising its...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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With Shane and Susan away, Ben and Tamara are joined by Quinta Jurecic and Shannon Togawa Mercer to answer the questions you submitted on Twitter! It’s a potpourri of NatSec analysis, with a dollop of hu...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to propose new nuclear treaties with the United States during his meeting with President Trump in Helsinki, according to a leaked Russian document, seen by Politic...