It's Not Clear Why Trump Thinks Disclosing the Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Affidavit Would Help His Case
Reinforcing the FBI's suspicions was the whole point of that document, which is likely to remain sealed.
Reinforcing the FBI's suspicions was the whole point of that document, which is likely to remain sealed.
Whatever threat it may have posed, the trove of government documents seized by the FBI does not reflect well on the former president's judgment.
The former president thought his 2016 opponent should go to prison for recklessly endangering national security.
A senator and two congressmen team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.
If you believe that moving most of our chip production onshore is good for national security, you should labor for regulatory reforms rather than subsidies.
The alarm aroused by the Disinformation Governance Board is understandable given the administration’s broader assault on messages it considers dangerous.
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
The president's anticipated executive order stopped short of feared regulations but suggests federal unease with uncontrolled development.
Congress continues to allocate funds to produce weapons that the Pentagon itself says it doesn't need.
The risk of escalating the conflict between Russia and Ukraine into a nuclear standoff is far too real to let emotions get in the way.
According to the Pentagon, no crimes were committed.
The ID overhaul, presented as a national security safeguard more than 15 years ago, still hasn't been fully implemented.
We’ll have to pay attention this time to ensure a conclusion to the accidental forever war.
More than half of Americans don’t have these new licenses. Airports are supposed to start checking them by October.
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Adopting "counterinsurgency" tactics for use against wide swaths of Americans can only make the situation worse.
Joe Biden's natsec team fulfills his campaign promise of a return to normalcy and conventional Washington. That also means maintaining the failed status quo of the post-9/11 era.
The Trump administration should discredit the former national security adviser's ideas, not subject him to a retaliatory investigation.
"I know what moral panics look like; they look kind of like this."
The issue may be headed for the Supreme Court, which hopefully will reverse its 1981 ruling in Rostker v. Goldberg.
"By the looks of it, the horse is not just out of the barn—it is out of the country."
National security journalist Barton Gellman talks about "the surveillance-industrial state," the possibility of a Biden presidency or a second Trump term, and his gripping new book.
Militarized borders and military intervention are two sides of the same coin.
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They simply disagree over who should be in charge of misusing and abusing those excessive powers.
Both the House and the Senate want transit agencies to stop buying rolling stock from Chinese-owned companies.
Integrating North Korea into the global economy, not forcing denuclearization, is our best chance at improving ordinary citizens’ quality of life.
Donald Trump's rhetoric is breathtakingly authoritarian, but so far he's done less than his predecessors to expand executive power.
Due Process Concerns Abound
Trump thinks that by publishing the piece, the Times is "virtually" guilty of "treason."
It is possible to believe that President Trump targeted Brennan for political reasons, and also that Brennan is unhinged and unreliable.
The Kentucky Republican is glad Trump stripped ex-CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance. But Trump shouldn't stop there, Paul says.
Brennan was awful and defended the indefensible, but Trump is clearly trying to silence critics.
This will have potentially serious consequences for those investigating election meddling.
Extending the justification would allow government intervention into just about anything.
No, the government shouldn't nationalize our mobile infrastructure.
McCain and Jeff Flake are right to slam the president's juvenile rhetoric, but questionably blame Trump for global trends while neglecting the press crackdowns of his predecessor.
Rhetoric on international relations rarely matches actual U.S. actions.
His policy decisions have so far belied his understanding of the public's foreign policy frustration.
FISA reauthorization would majorly expand use of warrantless digital surveillance data against Americans.
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