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The world probably does not need another podcast, but it’s getting one anyway… As many of you already know, my friend Steve Vladeck joined me on the faculty at UT-Austin this past fall. We’re coteaching ...
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Two executive orders released today dealt with the new administration’s immigration policy. One, summarized here, focuses on immigration enforcement in the context of border security.
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This afternoon, the Trump administration released the text of a new executive order concerning “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements.” The stated purpose of the order is to improve na...
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President Donald Trump delivered remarks to employees of the Department of Homeland Security earlier today. Video of his speech is available below from the White House YouTube channel. (The speech begin...
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President Donald Trump is set to announce a series of executive orders on national security-related issues today including immigration, detention and interrogation, and designation of the Muslim Brotherh...
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Author's Note: I wrote the following in the belief that the draft executive order published yesterday by the Washington Post and analyzed yesterday by the Times and the Post was either the final text or ...
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The news today is shocking. Russian authorities have arrested a top Kaspersky cybersecurity manager for espionage.
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Darren E. Tromblay has served the U.S. Intelligence Community, as an Intelligence Analyst, for more than a decade. He is the author of The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise: History, Development, and...
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On Sunday night, the Wall Street Journal broke a story that U.S. counterintelligence officials “had investigated” the communications of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as part of a counterintelli...
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For President Trump, negative news coverage must be the handiwork of partisan enemies.
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The New York Times writes that President Trump has requested that FBI Director James Comey stay on in his position as chief law enforcement officer. Firing Comey, while floated by Trump’s team and within...
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Russia’s Syria Pivot Continues at Astana Peace Talks
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Our guest interview is with Jack Goldsmith, Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard and co-founder of Lawfare. We explore his contrarian view of how to deal with Russian hacking, which leads to me praising...
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Yesterday, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor General Mark Martins released the following statement regarding pretrial hearings to be conducted over the next two weeks in the 9/11 case. The statement...
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Affirming a lower court decision, the UK Supreme Court has held that, despite the referendum in June 2016 calling for withdrawal from the European Union, Britain cannot withdraw from the Union without pa...
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As Benjamin Wittes and I noted a few weeks ago, these past few weeks have produced some interesting litigation activity regarding the Senate Intelligence Committee’s interrogation report. In the last day...
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In his first speech as President, Donald Trump delivered scheduled remarks at CIA headquarters in front of the memorial wall honoring fallen officers in an effort to heal the breach caused by his continu...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Given Donald Trump’s continuing fondness for Twitter over the course of his rise to power, it was perhaps inevitable that sooner or later, we would start seeing his tweets showing up in litigations. Turn...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1, when Ben will interview Edward Jay Epstein on his new book, How America Lost Its S...