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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.

New Ruling Shows How Few Options There Are for Intelligence Community Whistleblowers

Last week, a federal judge dismissed a complaint by a CIA whistleblower (and spy), who goes by the pseudonym James Pars. The ruling by Judge Trevor McFadden could affect the willingness…

Let’s Leave “Crisis” and “Emergency” For the Real Thing

Samantha Vinograd, who served on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council and as deputy U.S. Treasury attaché to Iraq during the Bush Administration, has recently…

Episode 51 of the National Security Podcast: Temporary, Immediate, and Unmonitored Access to this Podcast

Well, 2017 is almost done.  No doubt there are a few more kicks-in-the-pants on the way before it’s all said and done, but hey, we can at least offer you one final episode of…
Donald Trump Jr.’s Twitter Photo showing a photo of him raising a hand as he stands behind a microphone. A check mark next to his name indicates verification. The handle listed is @DonaldTrumpJr

The Trump-Russia-WikiLeaks Alliance and Campaign Finance Laws

The news cycles are busy with revelations about the Trump campaign-Russia-WikiLeaks connections, and they may be moving more quickly than the capacity to absorb their legal significance.…

Kushner’s Unsatisfactory Senate Document Production

The most incendiary part of a stinging letter from Senate Judiciary Committee leaders to Jared Kushner’s counsel, Abbe Lowell, is the committee’s disclosure that “other…
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Full Text (Photo Images) of Donald Trump Jr and Wikileaks Correspondence

Following The Atlantic‘s Julia Ioffe ‘s scoop revealing the private correspondence between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks, the President’s son released, over…
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.

A Security Clearance Nightmare

As President, Donald Trump obviously has the right to hire and fire his top advisors as he sees fit. However, when the President indicates he may fire someone because they are…

The Constitutional Rubicon of an Assange Prosecution

If you were tuning in and out of FBI Director James Comey’s hearing before the House Intelligence Committee last Wednesday, you probably got an earful about Comey’s public…

Letter to the Editor: The Whistleblower Protection Debate Continued

Recently, Andrew Bakaj and my former counsel, Mark Zaid, responded to my critique of their first piece on the state of national security whistleblower protections, stating We disagree,…
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Letter to the Editor: Whistleblower Protections Are Getting Stronger

The March 2 article on Just Security by Patrick Eddington, titled “Whistleblower Retaliation: A Governmental Accountability and National Security Crisis,” certainly captures…
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Ben Wittes and Quinta Jurecic on the “Oathless Presidency”—Questions raised by deep distrust in Trump

Just Security and the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law were delighted to host an event today for our friends from Lawfare, Ben Wittes and Quinta Jurecic, for a discussion…

Whistleblower Retaliation: A Governmental Accountability and National Security Crisis

The role of an Inspector General (IG) office in a federal agency or department is to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and where necessary refer criminal conduct to the Justice…
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