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The Trump-Bolton Misdirection on Russian Extradition: Plenty of Legal Options Exist to Gain Custody of Russian Suspects
John Bolton is wrong. Extradition and other legal options are potentially available to gain custody of indicted Russian hackers. "In their Helsinki meeting, President Trump can—and…
Glenn Greenwald’s Deceptive Response to My Critique of His Tweets on the Alleged 12 Russian Agents Indictments
On Friday, Glenn Greenwald made a series of statements on Twitter in response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Indictment of 12 suspected Russian intelligence officers earlier…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (July 9-13)
Trump and Russia: Helsinki Summit Viola Gienger, With Trump Talk of Crimea Deal, Will U.S. Bulwark Hold? James Lamond, What Cannot Be on the Table at the Trump-Putin Summit Russia…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (June 30-July 6)
What a year last week was! Here's our analysis of topics including family separation, Yemen War, cyber attacks, civil suit against Trump Foundation, US airstrikes and civilian…
Norms Watch: Damage to Democracy and Rule of Law in June 2018
We’re reviving Norms Watch, our series tracking President Donald Trump’s divergence from democratic norms, as well as the ways norms are sometimes discarded in reaction to…
July 4th and Just Security
Just Security is on an abbreviated schedule today in honor of the July 4th holiday. If any major, time-sensitive developments occur, we will address them. Image: Demonstrator…
Protecting Civilians in Cyberspace: Ideas for the Road Ahead
Distinctions between offline and online conflicts are blurring as tools and tactics deployed in cyberspace trigger real world consequences. In Mexico, for example, commercial spyware…
The Travel Ban: Part of a Broad National Security Exceptionalism in U.S. Law
As various scholars have noted, the Supreme Court’s Trump v. Hawaii decision last week to uphold a law that many experts call “the Muslim Ban” is shocking in its analysis.…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (June 25-29)
Family Detention, Family Separation, Zero Tolerance Deborah Pearlstein, Child Separation in the Courts Travel Ban John Reed, Just Security Podcast: Harold Koh and Cristina Rodríguez…
In Trump Era, a Need to Revive Ideals of Jefferson’s Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,…
Carpenter‘s Curiosities (and its Potential to Unsettle Longstanding Fourth Amendment Doctrines)
It’s only peripherally related to national security issues, but I thought some readers who are too overwhelmed or depressed to keep reading about Hawaii v. Trump might be…
A Belief Shattered: The International Criminal Court’s Bemba Acquittal
BANGUI – On June 8, the appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity of murder,…