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Cooperation between the White House and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation appeared to fray this weekend after Kory Langhofer, an attorney for President Donald Trump, claimed that Mueller’s t...
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The new Supplement for Curtis A. Bradley and Jack Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017), is now available.
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The White House outlined it's national security strategy in a document on Monday. At 2:00 p.m. EST, the president will deliver remarks on the strategy.
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The White House released the following National Security Strategy document on Monday, Dec. 18.
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This post is the first of three essays on addressing the crisis with North Korea. Read parts two and three.
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In Part I of this series, I concluded that the “president cannot obstruct justice when he exercises his lawful authority that is vested by Article II of the Constitution.” For purposes of either a crimin...
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If your personal information is released but never misused, can you sue the company that was supposed to keep it safe? Some federal circuits say no; others say yes. A new cert petition in Attias v. CareF...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, December 18 at 10:00 am: The Woodrow Wilson Center will hold an event on The Catalan Crisis: Implications for Spain and Beyond. Josep Co...
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The other day I posted a tweetstorm on the issues raised by the Trump transition's letter to Congress relating to the Special Counsel's access to transition data stored at GSA. The TL;DR summary: Not m...
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Editor’s Note: The relationship between soldiers and civilians is a fundamental question for any democracy. In the United States, the military has long been respected, but only recently has it been idoli...
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President James Madison shaped the course of American history in not one, not two, but three different and foundational roles in the formation of the young republic. He was a drafter of the constitution,...
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Jordan Brunner commenced the week by reviewing the climate change provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. President Donald Trump signed the act on Tuesday. I posted his...
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Republicans question the integrity of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. President Trump says he will move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem (Tamara’s suggested article for reference). And Secr...
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We spend a lot of time on Lawfare describing the problems that result from data exfiltration, whether government policies should change as a result, etc. This post is a bit of a change; it's about techni...
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President Donald Trump said that there was tremendous anger over the FBI’s “disgraceful” behavior, criticizing the Bureau just before he appeared at its training facility in Quantico, Virginia, to praise...
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On Thursday, Benjamin Wittes published his assessment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s Dec. 13 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. While I understand Ben’s considerable concern abo...
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I’m struck by the kerfuffle over text messages sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom he was apparently having an affair. The messages bash Trump and seem to favor Clinton—f...
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The following is an independent assessment by British barrister David Anderson of nine internal reviews of British intelligence in connection with four terrorist attacks in the spring and summer of 2017.
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6,700 Rohingya died—including 730 children under the age of 5— in the first month of the Myanmar government’s crackdown on the Muslim ethnic minority group, according to the New York Times.
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In this episode, I interview Elsa Kania, author of a Center for a New American Security report on China’s plan for military uses of artificial intelligence—a plan that seems to have been accelerated by t...