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When the government argues that it’s “going dark” because of ubiquitous end-to-end encryption, it often stresses how encryption thwarts counterterrorism investigations. When FBI Director Christopher Wray...
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Unnamed sources in a Washington Post story last week claimed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller told President Trump’s lawyers that “he is preparing a report about the president’s actions while in offic...
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On April 25, when the Supreme Court hears argument in Hawaii v Trump, the challenge to President Trump’s third executive order imposing a travel ban on nationals from eight countries (“EO-3”), the Court ...
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Editor’s Note: When analysts consider how strong al-Qaeda is, much of the discussion concerns the group's relationship with its affiliate organizations in Yemen, the Maghreb, and other areas. Perhaps the...
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Vladimir Kara-Murza is the vice chairman of Open Russia, the founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation and a contributing opinion writer for the Washington Post. On Wednesday, Kara-Murza spoke to Alina Pol...
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On Tuesday evening, the Washington Post reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller informed the White House that he considers President Trump a subject, but not a criminal target, of his investigation ...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled “Andrew McCarthy's Puzzling Argument” that explained the weakness in Andrew McCarthy’s then-recent argument in the National Review that the Mueller investigation ha...
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In July, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of March. It includ...
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On April 2, China hit back against the Trump administration’s recently announced steel tariffs, announcing duties on 128 different U.S. products.
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The Trump administration levied sanctions against several close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports. Those sanctioned include Russian oligarchs and polit...
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In January, I wrote about the petition filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in D.C.
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Is cybersecurity improving overall? By at least some measures the answer is a surprising “yes.” This annual report from FireEye gives us at least two reasons to think that trend lines are actually improv...
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Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument in Doe v. Mattis, the case of a dual U.S.-Saudi citizen (John Doe) detained in Iraq by the U.S. military. Judges Sri Srin...
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Administration officials said that President Trump intends to impose further sanctions on Russia by Friday, the Washington Post reports. The sanctions will apparently target at least a half-dozen Russian...
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The Washington Post’s recent report that the president is a subject in the special counsel investigation raises a number of intriguing questions—among them, who leaked information about discussions betwe...
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Susan is back with a hilarious story about how Devin Nunes sent her blood pressure soaring—and sent her into the delivery room. Robert Mueller tells the president’s lawyers that Donald Trump is the subje...
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In light of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed to testify before Congress.
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Mark Zuckerberg is on a charm offensive. Fresh off a round of interviews with various media outlets following the revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data in the 2016 election, the Fa...
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I’ve written on Lawfare about the intelligence community’s transparency plan and have previously outlined a framework for how we might think about transparency efforts.
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