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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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On Thursday, April 5, the D.C.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller told President Trump’s lawyers that the president is a subject, but not currently a criminal target, of Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presid...
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The U.S.-China trade spat entered its latest phase on Tuesday afternoon as the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a list of proposed tariffs against Chinese goods.
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In July 2014, a deadly series of events began when Hamas operatives kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. After waves of arrests of Hamas leaders by Israeli security agencies i...
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The shocking misuse of personal data by Cambridge Analytica, actively facilitated by Facebook, was a preventable harm. Hundreds of thousands of individuals who thought they were participating in an acade...
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The Washington Post reports this evening that: "Mueller told Trump’s attorneys the president remains under investigation but is not currently a criminal target." The report comes the same day as Alex van...
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On Tuesday, April 3, Alex van der Zwaan became the first person to receive a court sentence in the course of the Mueller investigation. But the sentencing hearing was a strangely anticlimactic affair.
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Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast! This week, Professors Vladeck and Chesney review the following recent developments:
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On Tuesday at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, the Federalist Society invited Lawfare’s Bobby Chesney, Matt Tait, and Steve Vladeck to talk about legality and warfare in cyberspace. They ...
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Prosecutors revealed in a court filing Monday night that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign m...
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On March 22, Atlanta’s city government was hit with a ransomware attack, with hackers demanding six bitcoins in exchange for releasing the data. At the time of writing this, that’s a demand for roughly $...
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A review of Ronen Bergman’s “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” (Penguin Random House, 2018).
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President Trump and his incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, make for an interesting and volatile mix of ideology, temperament, and ability. Unlike some Lawfare contributors, we don’t know Bo...
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Trump Wants Plans to Leave Syria
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In the news roundup, Nick Weaver, Ben Wittes and I talk about the mild reheating of the encryption debate, sparked not just by renewed FBI pleading but by the collapse of the left-lib claim that building...
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When it comes to policy issues at the center of the U.S.-Mexico relationship, drug trafficking and migrant smuggling are near the top of the list. Yet while President Trump is happy to make off-the-cuff ...
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During President Trump’s phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 20, Trump suggested that the two leaders meet in Washington, the Washington Post reports.
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Jhesus-Maria, King of England, and you, Duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the Kingdom of France, you, Guillaume de la Poule, count of Suffort, Jean, sire of Talbot, and you, Thomas, sire of S...
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Happy Brexitaversary!
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