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The New York Times reported on March 24 that the FBI and Justice Department are again pushing for extraordinary access to encrypted data. This will certainly set off yet another round of the long-standin...
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On Monday morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee published the following prepared statement by Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and chief executive of Facebook, in advance of his testimony before that...
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Last week, the Washington Post reported a disturbing anecdote about President Trump’s visit to the CIA on his first full day in office:
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Based on trends in advancing robotics technology, many experts believe autonomous—and even lethal autonomous—robots are an inevitable and imminent development.
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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...
