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Canada

Canadian National Security: News on Mali and the Norman Affair

Preston Lim   Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 8:00 AM

In 1957, Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving the Suez Crisis. Pearson was the first to push for the idea of a large-scale peacekeeping mission, and Canadians have since celebrated Pearson as the father of peacekeeping. The world today is radically different than the one Pearson inhabited—but his exploits demonstrate that Canadians have long charted their own solutions to global security issues, even while working closely alongside the United States and within a multilateral framework.

The Russia Connection

Confidence in Mueller’s Investigation Soars After Barr Letter

Mieke Eoyang, Ben Freeman, Ryan Pougiales, Benjamin Wittes   Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 11:53 AM

March 21 to March 22, just prior to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s delivery of his report on the Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr, we conducted a nationwide survey asking respondents a series of questions regarding Mueller’s investigation. From March 26 to March 28, after the release of Barr’s letter with his top-line summary of the investigation’s conclusions, we conducted another nationwide survey asking respondents the same series of questions to gauge how the report’s release and subsequent media coverage affected the public’s opinion of the investigation.

Donald Trump

When Is Impeachment the Right Remedy?

Keith E. Whittington   Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 8:00 AM

There is a tendency to think of impeachable offenses as like landmines. If the president accidentally or purposefully steps on one, then it explodes and he must suffer the consequences. Constitutional lawyers might find this line of thinking particularly attractive because it would allow them to get to work on identifying a finite set of actions as high crimes and misdemeanors and to set Congress about the business of determining whether the president has actually committed such offenses.

congressional oversight

Congressional Subpoena Power and Executive Privilege: The Coming Showdown Between the Branches

Margaret Taylor   Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 7:00 AM

With the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives sporting an aggressive oversight agenda on national security and foreign policy issues, it’s only a matter of time before a raft of congressional subpoenas are fired off from Capitol Hill. Also only a matter of time is resistance to those subpoenas based on the assertion of executive privilege by the Trump administration.

Federal Law Enforcement

FBI Agents Association Argues Shutdown Hurts National Security

Lev Sugarman   Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 3:47 PM

“Financial security is national security.” So argues the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA), an outside group advocating for bureau employees, in a new report entitled, “Voices from the Field: FBI Agent Accounts of the Real Consequences of the Government Shutdown.” In a compilation of anonymous accounts provided by FBI personnel, the report warns of the shutdown’s far-reaching consequences for bureau operations and FBI agents themselves.

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