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President Trump is expected to decertify the Iran nuclear deal in a speech Friday afternoon, but the U.S. will not attempt to withdraw from the agreement, the New York Times reported. Trump’s move will l...
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On Lawfare's feed at Foreign Policy, I write about how the United States' tit-for-tat diplomatic escalation with Moscow likely backfired. The piece begins:
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Last week, members of the the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) introduced the “Uniting and Strengthening American Liberty Act of 2017,” known as the “USA Liberty Act.” A discussion draft of the bill had b...
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While the president’s reported plans regarding the JCPOA have rightly garnered a great deal of attention, another sanctions-related deadline came and went with little fanfare.
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President Trump is expected to announce that he will not certify the Iran deal in a speech on Friday, October 13.
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On October 13, the Heritage Foundation will be hosting a live event to discuss the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702. Entitled “Renewal of FISA’s Section 702: Why...
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This is the way Trump v. IRAP ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper. At least for now.
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The focus of the travel ban litigation has shifted back to the federal district courts after Monday’s decision to dismiss Trump v. Hawaii as moot.
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Militants in Afghanistan released an American woman and her Canadian husband, who had been held hostage for five years, according to the New York Times. The hostage-takers captured Caitlan Coleman and Jo...
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On Tuesday, Emma Kohse and Benjamin Wittes published their incisive comments on our Brookings Report, entitled “Presidential Obstruction of Justice: The Case of Donald J. Trump.” Kohse and Wittes note m...
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Join us this evening for a book soiree with Hoover Institution from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., when Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes will interview Tim Edgar about his new book, "Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillan...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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Israeli hackers notified the National Security Agency that it found NSA hacking tools on Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky’s the network, the New York Times reported.
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Four international terrorism trials began, continued, or wrapped up in the past few weeks. In the Eastern District of New York, a U.S. citizen and al Qaeda operative who had been deported from Pakistan t...
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A leading GOP senator warns that President Trump risks starting “World War III.” Russia hacks the NSA using popular Russian anti-virus software. And Congress starts the bidding over a key surveillance la...
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[Update: A knowledgeable contact confirms my sense that NSPM-7 should be viewed in continuity with long-standing efforts within the IC to develop technical architectures for sharing identity-specific inf...
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I argued here recently that the president might find himself accountable in an impeachment inquiry for actively deceiving the public by denying Russian interference in the 2016 election. There is clear p...
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Richard Danzig, former Navy Secretary and a serious defense and technology thinker, speaks to us about the technology tsunami and what it means for the Pentagon. Among the risks: lots more accidents, s...
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This morning, the Governance Studies program at Brookings—where one of us works—released a lengthy report, entitled “Presidential Obstruction of Justice: The Case of Donald J. Trump.” Written by Barry Be...