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The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity is holding a hearing Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on "The Cyber Posture of the Services." The subcommittee will hear testimony from the following...
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British Prime Minister Theresa May made the remarkable statement Monday that, absent a credible response from the Russian government, the United Kingdom will conclude that the use of a nerve agent agains...
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday that it was “highly likely” that the Russian government was behind the poisoning and attempted murder of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Sk...
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Economic welfare and national security are sewn together with a tight stitch, and the president is pulling on the seam. His decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports pursuant to Section 23...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 10:15 a.m. on "The Freedom of Information Act: Examining the Administration's Progress on Reforms and Looking Ahead." The committee ...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on U.S. Central Command and U.S. Africa Command. The committee will hear testimony from Gen. Joseph Votel, commander ...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
In Europe, the combination of the migration crisis, terrorist threats, economic pressures, and the rise of the populist far-right hav...
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U.S. Presses for New Ceasefire in Syria
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Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect ProPublica's continued reporting on Gina Haspel's involvement in the CIA's enhanced interrogation program and its retraction of the assertion that ...
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On Monday, the House intelligence committee announced the closure of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Below are statements from members the committee majority and minority, a...
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British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that it was “highly likely” that the Kremlin poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent, the BBC reports. T...
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Out on spring break but still listening to the podcast? We love it! Actually, your hosts are out on spring break too, but before they left town they sat down to record episode 63 on March 9. If things ha...
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In the professional world of Lawfare (national security, homeland security, intelligence, privacy and civil liberties) nobody would doubt the salience of questions of cybersecurity. They seem to resonate...
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In this second post in our series about Canada’s national security law reform, we begin a discussion of changes proposed for the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s primary signals inte...
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There are numerous lawyers in the news in the case (or cases) of Donald Trump, and their stories tell a tale about how this president views the law and the role of his legal advisers.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, March 12 at 10:00 a.m.: The Brookings Institution will host Amy Chua for a discussion about her new book, “Political Tribes: Group Insti...
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Editor’s Note: How vulnerable are U.S. submarines in the event of a nuclear war? Some analysts have argued that, after firing their missiles, submarines would be sitting ducks for adversaries to target. ...
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Long before the election of Donald Trump, Yascha Mounk predicted that democracy was in trouble. A leading voice on the crisis of democracy and the growth of populism, Mounk has now written a book that ad...
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Let’s start with the special counsel investigation.
Emma Kohse and Benjamin Wittes explored the legal theory driving the special counsel’s indictment of Russian hackers and entities, arguing that the th...
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Let the record reflect that I dissent from this episode's title, which was imposed upon me because I joined remotely from Maui.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller zeroes in on a mysterious Lebanese business...