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Livestream: House and Senate Hearings on Foreign Policy and National Security
Wednesday is a busy day on the hill. The following House and Senate hearings on foreign policy and national security may be of interest to Lawfare readers. -
Livestream: Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity Hearing on Election Security
The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity is holding a hearing Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 pm on the Defense Department's role in protecting democratic elections. The subcommittee will hear t... -
Livestream: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on World Wide Threats
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 9:30 am on World Wide Threats. The committee will hear testimony from the following witnesses: Mike Pompeo, Direct... -
Document: Transcript of HPSCI Vote to Release the Democratic Memo
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has released the transcript of the Feb. 5 business meeting in which it voted to release the HPSCI minority rebuttal to the Nunes memo. You c... -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: January 2018
In July, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of January. -
Summary of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
The Nuclear Posture Review is a legislative-mandated review undertaken by the Department of Defense that outlines U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture for the next five to 10 yea... -
Why Latin America Needs to Prepare Now for Election Meddling
The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections caught the world by surprise. This wasn’t because election interference of that kind hadn’t happened before—it had, just ask the Ukrainians—but simpl... -
Livestream: House and Senate Committee Hearings on Foreign Policy and National Security
Tuesday is a busy day on the hill. The following hearings may be of interest to Lawfare readers. The House Committee on Armed Services is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. on the National ... -
Document: Nuclear Posture Review 2018
The Secretary of Defense has released the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review. The full document is below: -
Document: Nunes Memo
The House intelligence committee majority staff released a memo on alleged intelligence abuses on Friday. The full memo is below. -
A Timeline of the House Intelligence Committee Chairman: All the Nunes That’s Fit to Print
The furor over the classified memo prepared by House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes has reached a fever pitch now that the memo has been released. The memo has become a matter of great parti... -
National Security Highlights in the 2017 State of the Union
We watched the State of the Union so you don’t have to. With an eye towards the national security sections of the speech, we’ve selected the parts we think are most relevant to Lawfare readers, organizi...
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