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Water Wars: China Crashes the Party at the Rim of the Pacific Exercises
The 26th biennial Rim of the Pacific naval military exercises, the largest international maritime exercises in the world, kicked off in and around Hawaii on June 27 with one participant notably absent. T... -
Revoking Security Clearances—A Short Update
Yesterday, Bradley Moss penned an excellent explainer of how the security process works and how revocation of security clearances are handled. In particular he explained how one Supreme Court case, Depa... -
Reading Between the Lines on House Efforts to Impeach Rod Rosenstein
Reports that a group of House conservatives—led by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus—are advocating the impeachment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have been ... -
Norms and ‘Unwritten Rules’ Facing the Special Counsel in a Trump Presidency
When Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence agents on the eve of the Helsinki summit, former attorney general Michael Mukasey smelled a rat. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, M... -
Trump Administration’s Iran Strategy Overshadowed by Bellicose Rhetoric
Hostile Rhetoric Escalates Between Trump Administration and Iran -
This Week at the Military Commissions: Majid Khan and the “Cluster Covfefe”
Quiet since September 2016, the military commission for Majid Shoukat Khan, a low-level al-Qaeda operative who pled guilty to all charges filed against him in 2012 and is cooperating with the government,... -
Launch Event: Low-Hanging Fruit: Evidence Based Solutions to the Digital Evidence Challenge
Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, July 25), from 8-10 am, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse -- along with DOJ’s former Assistant Attorney General for National Security, David Kris and DOJ’s former Principal Attorney... -
The Innovation-Security Conundrum in U.S.-China Relations
If one defines technology as anything that extends human capability, it takes only a short logical leap to conclude that nearly any advantage in technological capability over a competitor entails potenti... -
Can the President Revoke Former Officials’ Security Clearances?
The three scenarios that might play out if Trump moves against Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Rice and Hayden. -
Announcing the 9th National Security Law Workshop
We are excited to announce the Ninth National Security Law Workshop! We will be holding the ninth National Security Law Workshop September 27-28, 2018 at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and Sch... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Sunday evening, President Trump warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Twitter to “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN,” after Rouhani said in a speech that a war with Iran would the “mot... -
Is Robert Mueller an 'Officer of the United States' or an 'Employee of the United States'?
Recent debates over the constitutionality of Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel turn on whether he is a principal or inferior “officer of the United States.” Steven Calabresi contends that M...
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