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White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O’Brien

What the available research says about systemic discrimination in law enforcement as well as links to racist and white supremacist ideology.
A demonstrator confronts police as he protests the death of George Floyd, in Los Angeles, California on May 29, 2020.

Don’t Let Trump Say the “American Carnage” of 2020 is What He Claimed in 2016. It’s Not.

The violence we’re seeing right now is not the so-called “American carnage” President Trump described in 2016 as he simultaneously claimed only he could lead the country…
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Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

Evidence points to specific White Supremacist and far-right groups having infiltrated George Floyd protests, writes scholar of violent extremism, Georgia State University professor…
Michael Flynn leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse on June 24, 2019 in Washington, DC.

An Inquiry into DOJ’s Decision to Drop the Flynn Case Can’t Be Left to Judge Sullivan Alone

More than just wrong, interim U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea's filing of the motion also may have violated legal and DOJ ethics rules.
Arrest poster of Felicien Kabuga. Reads, "Felicien Kabuga Arrested: 16/05/2020"

And Then There Were Seven: Rwandan Félicien Kabuga Arrested in France

The case illustrates the long arm of justice, via international tribunals created in the 1990s after the genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Police wearing face masks, helmets, and carrying clear riot shields walk through the International Finance Center shopping mall on April 28, 2020 in Hong Kong, China, where a protest (not shown) is being held.

Can We Finally Admit That “One Country, Two Systems” Is Dead in Hong Kong?

Things in Hong Kong were supposed to be different. After the People’s Republic of China (PRC) assumed sovereignty over the former British colony, the territory was supposed to…
Barr and Trump

Keeping an Eye on the Hand of Justice: Bill Barr and Targeting Joe Biden

Former Acting Attorney General Stuart Gerson (served with Bill Barr in the George HW Bush administration) and Kristy Parker (15-year DOJ career) warn of the weaponization of the…
Democratic presidential hopeful former US vice president Joe Biden participates in the 11th Democratic Party 2020 presidential debate in a CNN Washington Bureau studio in Washington, DC on March 15, 2020.

Beware, Lobbyists: The Future of FARA Under a Biden Presidency

If Donald Trump loses the upcoming election in November, the Department of Justice’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) – the law that’s already tripped up numerous Trump…
A Salvadoran army soldier wearing camo clothing, a cap, and a face mask holds a large gun while on patrol in a neighborhood dominated by the Mara Salvatrucha gang in San Salvador, during an operation to capture some of the gang members on January 19, 2019.

Latin America: Local, Not Central, is Key to Reducing Crime and Violence

Despite national governments’ attempts to take the credit for declining crime rates, recent field research and analysis in Central and Latin America points toward an important…
AG Barr looks at Trump

Barr Is Dismantling Charges Filed by Mueller

Another curious filing by the Department of Justice should not be lost amid news about COVID-19. In yet another reversal in a case initiated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller,…

Blowing the Transatlantic Whistle

U.S. courts have been reluctant to extend the same protections they afford domestic informants to employees of American companies based abroad.
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Law Enforcement’s Facial Recognition Law-lessness: Comparing European and US Approaches

"There’s a grave threat to individual liberty, privacy, and racial justice. A balance needs to be struck. But it will not be struck by continuing to act lawlessly, which is to…
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