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Shattering Illusions: How Cyber Threat Intelligence Augments Legal Action against Russia’s Influence Operations
Recent U.S. Department of Justice actions against Russia's covert influence operations underscores the efficacy of legal countermeasures founded on actionable cyber threat intelligence.…

Summary of DOJ Indictment of Iranian 2024 Election Interference
Editor’s note: Readers may also be interested in David Aaron’s analysis of the indictment. On Friday, the Department of Justice announced charges in another state-sponsored…

Analysis of Remarkable and Unremarkable Aspects of Iranian 2024 Election Interference Indictment
What's novel and what's routine in the indictment of the three alleged Iranian government operatives.

Absolute Presidential Immunity and the Evasion of Checks and Balances: My Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee
"The potential abuses of official power that are made possible by the Court’s ruling, and the neutering of Congress’s ability to act, are alarming."

Public-Safety Reform and Preventing Targeted Violence: Two Sides of the Same Public-Health Coin
A call to breakdown silos by jointly addressing targeted violence and other public-safety issues for comprehensive, lasting solutions.

Chronology of a Dozen Times Trump Pushed to Prosecute His Perceived Enemies
A deeply researched list of specific instances in which former president Trump used the Department of Justice and other levers of government power — including by directly, publicly…

Warrantless “Defensive” Searches of FISA Section 702 Data Violate the Fourth Amendment
The Fourth Amendment requires that queries of the FISA Section 702 database for information about U.S. persons be performed pursuant to a court order, regardless of whether the…

The Perils of Expertise: How the DOJ Indictment of Sue Mi Terry Can Chill the Think Tank World
Former White House Counsel Greg Craig with a scathing critique of the Justice Department's prosecution.

Dept of Justice Promises to Declassify Standard Operating Procedure for Coordinating with Social Media Platforms
Department of Justice set to release declassified Standard Operating Procedure for coordinating with social media platforms on foreign malign influence and First Amendment.

United States v. Nixon at Fifty: Why Judge Cannon Is Wrong About the Attorney General’s Authority to Select a Special Counsel
An in-depth legal analysis on the fate of Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case and beyond.

Robert Menendez Guilty: The Significance of the First ‘Foreign Agent’ Conviction of a U.S. Senator
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) racked up 16 felony convictions on Tuesday, delivering a fatal blow to his three-decade long career in the U.S. Congress. Menendez signaled that…

The Limited Effects of Fischer: DOJ Data Reveals Supreme Court’s Narrowing of Jan. 6th Obstruction Charges Will Have Minimal Impact
What does the Supreme Court decision in Fischer v. United States mean for former President Donald Trump’s D.C. criminal case and the hundreds of other January 6th defendants?…