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Rational Security: The 'Mar-a-Lago Thumb Drive Lady' Edition
A White House official claims more than two dozen denials for security clearances were overturned. Six months after Saudi agents killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, what has changed in the U.S-Saudi relat... -
SinoTech: U.S.-China Trade Talks Continue with an Emphasis on Tech
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer concluded another round of trade talks with their Chinese counterparts last week in Beijing. Much of this round cent... -
Road Map to Impeachment Proceedings? What Watergate Can Teach Us About Unsealing the Mueller Report
At 11:00 a.m. on March 1, 1974, lawyers and reporters gathered in Judge John Sirica’s courtroom in Washington. The Watergate special prosecutor’s office had issued its usual bland announcement: A “procee... -
House Oversight and Judiciary Committees Authorize First Subpoenas
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The House Judiciary Committee voted to authorize its chairman, Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report and the underlying evidence from the Justice Department, t... -
Document: Former Military and Intelligence Officials Letter on 5G Risks
In a letter released Wednesday, six former combatant commanders and intelligence chiefs outlined “grave concerns” about risks posed by Chinese-developed 5G networks, including espionage, constraints on U... -
National Security Law Podcast: This Podcast Can Only Be Detained for Six Months
Join us as Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate the latest national security law news! This week we’ve got: -
Documents: Government Motions to Dismiss Border Emergency Lawsuits
On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed motions to dismiss in two lawsuits challenging President Trump’s use of a national emergency declaration to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The suits, C... -
Huawei and Managing 5G Risk
Based on cybersecurity concerns, the United States, Australia and New Zealand have staked out policy positions that prevent or strongly discourage the acquisition of Huawei 5G technology for use in the n... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Mary Louise Kelly and Shane Harris on Covering the CIA
Back in February, we hosted Bill Harlow and Marie Harf, two former public affairs officers at the Central Intelligence Agency, to discuss how the CIA interacts with reporters on sensitive national securi... -
Document: Woman Carrying Malware Charged With Illegally Entering Mar-A-Lago
According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Secret Service agents at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida arrested a woman who alleg... -
Intelligence Oversight Priorities for the 116th Congress
Despite the hyper-partisanship, and even in light of corrosive calls last week for the resignation of the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), the Senate S
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