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On Thursday, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued the following memorandum opinion on the April 2018 U.S. airstrikes against three Syrian chemical-weapons facilities.
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The fight over Gina Haspel’s nomination to be director of the CIA was one of the more politically controversial that has emerged in recent months. It raised complex questions of leadership and accountabi...
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A recent story from Bryant Harris at Al-Monitor reveals growing tension between the Trump administration and House Democrats over congressional travel to parts of the Middle East and South Asia.
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Earlier this month, the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs published our report on the first round of a polling project sponsored by the Texas National Security Network aimed at shedding light on America...
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Sen. Jeff Merkley has released the text of a new draft AUMF, available in full below. The senator's press release and summary of the bill are available here.
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This post is the second in a multipart series. For an introduction to the survey discussed and the methodology employed, be sure to read our first post.
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One of the obscure federal statutes that has come to prominence in the Trump administration is the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA), a statute designed to increase the president’s flexibility ...
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Recruiting intelligence sources is hard at the best of times. And President Trump just made it harder.
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What happens when the outing of intelligence sources is the province not of rogue insiders but of senior officials in two branches of this country’s government?
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On Monday, CIA director nominee Gina Haspel submitted the following responses to written questions from members of the Senate intelligence committee.
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Canada is in the midst of a comprehensive—and long-overdue—reform of its national security institutions and legal authorities.