In May 2017, we laid out seven theories that might account for the facts of the Russia Connection. While the spectrum of possibility remains vast, the more innocent explanations have clearly been ruled out.
A little-noticed Watergate-era opinion addresses “Presidential Amenability to Judicial Subpoenas.”
The organizer of Sunday’s white-supremacist rally in Washington expects more than a hundred people to show up. The evidence suggests the headcount may be much lower.
How a Republican operative’s efforts to find 33,000 emails may have intersected with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Contrary to what President Trump might think, he lacks any authority to censor the unclassified communications of former federal employees.
The three scenarios that might play out if Trump moves against Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Rice and Hayden.
Can his own government say no if a citizen captured as an enemy combatant abroad wants a passport?
Weighing the pros and cons of the proposed new service.
It isn’t every day that the Department of Justice acknowledges formally that the president of the United States lied in a speech to Congress. But that’s how I read a letter I received a few days ago from the department.
The strange tale behind the recent reports of a GOP opposition researcher who set his sights on Hillary Clinton’s emails.
How do we protect the valuable national asset of artificial intelligence against a range of threats from hostile foreign actors, and how do we protect ourselves against the threat from AI in the hands of adversaries?
The second essay in a series on federalist governance in the Middle East.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued the following statement revoking former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance. The full statement is below:
On Monday, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against a motion challenging the constitutionality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. The full order is below:
President Trump has signed a massive new National Defense Authorization Act. What does it mean for U.S. national security?
There’s a new twist in one of the stranger subplots of L’Affaire Russe: Buzzfeed News reports that Peter Smith, a Republican operative who reportedly sought to obtain missing Hillary Clinton emails during the 2016 presidential campaign, made several suspicious withdrawals from bank accounts during the timeframe of his quest for Clinton’s emails—suggesting that he may have paid people he believed were Russian hackers.
Canada and Saudi Arabia have been at loggerheads over the past week ever since the Canadian Foreign Minister condemned Saudi Arabia’s arrest of Samar Badawi, a human rights activist. Saudi Arabia's reactions were extreme, including expelling the Canadian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, halting trade negotiations and the pulling of the Saudi Arabian ambassador for diplomatic consultation.
We need an insurance policy against the unthinkable: Donald Trump's actually winning the Presidency.
Trump's tweet Sunday was inadvisable as his lawyers seek to fend off Robert Mueller’s request for an interview and with Michael Cohen reportedly willing to testify that the president knew the goal of the Trump Tower meeting.
No lawyer would have advised the Trump campaign that because "collusion" is not an offense under federal campaign finance law, the Trump campaign could safely enter into a political alliance with a foreign power.