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Today’s Headlines and Commentary
George Nader, a key witness in the Special Counsel’s investigation, was arrested on Monday, having been charged in January 2018 with transporting child pornography, the Washington Post reports. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Nada Bakos on 'The Targeter'
In movies and TV shows like Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland, Hollywood has fictionalized the roles of intelligence officers in tracking down terrorists. But the truth is often filled with personal and poli... -
A Modest Proposal for Preventing Election Interference in 2020
The years since the 2016 election have been a national trauma that the U.S. shouldn’t be eager to revisit. Yet almost no policy changes have been made as a result of what the country has learned from the... -
How U.S.-Iran Tensions Could Disrupt Iraq’s Fragile Peace
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. -
Judge Rules House Doesn't Have Standing in Border Lawsuit
On Monday, Judge Trevor McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the House of Representatives lacked standing to sue executive branch departments to prevent them from s... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
After a briefing with senior NSA officials, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) issued a statement that “there is no evidence at this time” that EternalBlue, a software exploit stolen from the NSA in 2017, ... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Will an End to Social Media Trust Mean an End to End-to-end Encryption?
If you’ve lost the Germans on privacy, you’ve lost Europe, and maybe the world. -
Jared, Call the FBI
In a remarkable interview with Axios on HBO, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser in the White House (and, coincidentally, the president's son-in-law), made a number of notable statements. Among them is his a... -
The Legal Authority Behind Trump’s New Tariffs on Mexico
On May 30, the White House announced yet another new policy aimed at addressing the purported crisis of unlawful immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump’s statement proposes a drama... -
The GCHQ’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process
In the U.S. there has been a long debate about “vulnerability equities”—that is, whether the government should disclose a vulnerability it discovers to the vendor, which will then allow users to apply a ... -
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Alan Dershowitz Is Wrong About Impeachments
President Trump has suggested periodically that the Supreme Court would intervene to block a hypothetical impeachment and trial since (he argues) he has not committed a high crime or misdemeanor. Of cour...
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