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On Monday, the Supreme Court’s tumultuous 2016 term is scheduled to draw to an end. But will it? All of the briefing in the travel ban litigation has been filed, and the cases are ready for the Court’s r...
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Developments in Syria and rising tensions with Russia drove foreign policy news this week. On Sunday, a U.S. F/A-18 shot down a manned Syrian government Su-22 bomber that had attacked the U.S.-backed Syr...
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This week, in Israel, Ben had two conversations about the television show Fauda. On Tuesday, Ben spoke with Avi Issacharoff, the show's co-creator and a journalist at the Times of Israel and Walla!. Then...
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Those following the Section 702 reauthorization debate may be interested in Germany’s recent intelligence reforms. One aspect of particular interest—which I also focus on in a new paper—is new limits on ...
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U.S. and Chinese Officials Meet for Inaugural High-Level U.S.-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue, But South China Sea Issues Feature Less Prominently Than Anticipated
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Pursuant to a FOIA request from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the FISA Court has released 18 redacted opinions regarding FISA Section 702. The opinions primarily concern the authorization of ...
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This morning the Washington Post revealed in an 8,000 word deep-dive that the CIA obtained Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct instructions for undercutting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump...
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It's hard to imagine a legal topic further afield from national security law than the Origination Clause.
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When President Trump first tweeted his hint of “tapes,” he might have been just surrendering to his social media impulses. He did not have a lawyer at the time, or one he publicly admitted to having hir...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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On Tuesday, U.S. forces shot down an armed Iranian drone in southern Syria, a few days after a similarly justified strike on a Syrian aircraft that dropped a bomb near a U.S. training outpost. Combined w...
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On May 12, following the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, President Trump tweeted:
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
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U.S. forces participated in the interrogation of al-Qaida militants detained in secret prisons managed by the United Arab Emirates and Yemeni forces in southern Yemen, preparing questions and obtaining t...
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A senior cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security testified that Russian government-affiliated hackers attempted to infiltrate election-related computer systems in 21 states.
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I’ve already written at some length about the flawed analytical foundations of Justice Kennedy’s opinion for a 4-2 majority in Ziglar v.
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Last Thursday and Friday, the United States and Mexico co-hosted top officials from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and other countries for the "Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America....
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This morning the House and Senate Intelligence Committees will hold overlapping hearings on Russian interference in our election, with a focus on threats and activities affecting our election infrastruct...
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing today on a new Authorization to Use Military Force Against terrorist groups. Kathleen Hicks, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and...
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday in Ziglar v. Abbasi that a group of Arab men who were detained by federal law enforcement after the September 11th attacks cannot sue government officials that ordered ...
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United States Slides Deeper into Syrian Civil War