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Why it’s a mistake to be a-waitin’ “the” Mueller Report (and why you should instead focus on two other reports)

OLC’s governing view of the constitutionality of a grand jury indictment of a sitting president therefore doesn't stand in the way of DOJ providing a comprehensive account to…
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) (R) listens to ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) question officials from the intelligence community during a hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill February 13, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Who is Richard Burr, Really? Why the public can’t trust his voice in the Russia probe

On the same day that Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.) officially joined the Trump campaign as a senior national security advisor, the U.S. intelligence community released a statement…
FBI Director Christopher Wray; CIA Director Gina Haspel; Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats; Gen. Robert Ashley, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Gen. Paul Nakasone, director of the National Security Agency; and Robert Cardillo, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency await testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats" January 29, 2019 in Washington, DC.

The Threat That Mustn’t Be Named

On Tuesday, America’s national security leaders took part in a rite of congressional oversight — the annual Worldwide Threats hearing. This session — featuring the…
Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) participate in an executive business meeting to debate and vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination out of committee and on to a vote by the full Senate in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 3, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Whistleblowers: The New “Insider Threat”

Thanks to information recently released by the Senate Judiciary Committee, we now have fresh, incontrovertible evidence that elements of the Intelligence Community (IC) have monitored…

Enhanced Evasion Techniques

On Thursday, May 17, after only a few hours of debate, the Senate approved Gina Haspel’s nomination as CIA director by a margin of 54 to 45 votes. The vote broke largely, but…

Gina Haspel: Feminist Smokescreen, Not Choice

Over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted that it would be hypocritical to at once “support women’s empowerment” and oppose the nomination of Gina…

The Diplomats Speak: More Opposition to Gina Haspel’s Nomination to Head the CIA

Above: CIA headquarters. An august group of 115 retired diplomats have now circulated their own letter (reproduced below) in opposition to the nomination of Gina Haspel to lead…

More Questions for Gina Haspel—The Record of False CIA Claims about Torture’s “Efficacy”

Recently Katherine Hawkins published a comprehensive set of questions that Gina Haspel, nominee to head the CIA, should be asked during her confirmation hearings (“What the…

What the Senate Needs to Ask Gina Haspel

Without full declassification of her involvement in American torture and rendition programs during the George W. Bush administration, Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing will…
A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the Original Headquarters Building at the CIA headquarters February 19, 2009 in McLean, Virginia.

Gina Haspel, Torture, and the ProPublica Correction

ProPublica’s comprehensive correction to significant portions of its earlier reporting on Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s recent nominee for CIA Director, provided an…

Five Times Comey Said Trump Was Lying

Former Director of the FBI James Comey came to Thursday’s briefing with the Senate Intelligence Committee ready to say the Trump administration had lied to the American people…

Just Security Roundup of #ComeyHearing

Here is a roundup of Just Security’s live tweeting from Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with former FBI Director James Comey. We’ve also included…
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