Read the original article: What Is and Isn’t New in the Unredacted Footnotes From the Inspector General’s Russia Report Senator Chuck Grassley speaking in Des Moines, Iowa. (By: Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/sTDSo5; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) At the request of Republican…
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Prosecuting Zoom-Bombing
Read the original article: Prosecuting Zoom-Bombing An advertisement for Zoom at the Denver International Airport. (By: Raysonho, https://tinyurl.com/yc5lp2az; CC BY 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) As the novel coronavirus has prompted everyday activity to move online and demand for videoconference platforms to soar,…
Summary: Ninth Circuit Permits Federal Wiretap Act Claim Against Facebook
Read the original article: Summary: Ninth Circuit Permits Federal Wiretap Act Claim Against Facebook Members of the audience take pictures at a Facebook event. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) In its opinion filed April 9, the U.S. Court…
Trump’s Coronavirus Immigration Order Is a Restriction in Search of a Rationale
Read the original article: Trump’s Coronavirus Immigration Order Is a Restriction in Search of a Rationale President Trump delivers remarks at a coronavirus update briefing on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. (Source: Flickr/Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen) On…
L.M.-M. v. Cuccinelli: Trump’s Preference for Acting Officials Hits A Wall
Read the original article: L.M.-M. v. Cuccinelli: Trump’s Preference for Acting Officials Hits A Wall Ken Cuccinelli speaks at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference. (By: Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/Ew8cGQ; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) For the better part of a year,…
Software Liability Is Just a Starting Point
Read the original article: Software Liability Is Just a Starting Point The offices of the National Institute for Standards and Technology, which could play a role in developing a system of liability for insecure software. (Source: Flickr/Mike, https://flic.kr/p/46dCSF; CC BY-NC-SA…
When Can the President Withdraw From the Open Skies Treaty?
Read the original article: When Can the President Withdraw From the Open Skies Treaty? Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks to the media during a press briefing on April 14, 2020. (Source: Flickr/DoD Photo by Marvin Lynchard) Several weeks ago,…
How to Legally—and Illegally—Fire Inspectors General
Read the original article: How to Legally—and Illegally—Fire Inspectors General Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to Glenn A. Fine, then-acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense, 2018 (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thejointstaff/43902874735/sizes/l/) In the…
Trump Can’t Play Politics With Aid to States
Read the original article: Trump Can’t Play Politics With Aid to States President Trump delivers remarks at a White House coronavirus briefing on April 20, 2020. (Source: Flickr/Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks) The national fight against the spread…
The Limits of the World Health Organization
Read the original article: The Limits of the World Health Organization The World Health Organization offices in Geneva, Switzerland. (Eric Bridiers, https://flic.kr/p/nmdjBX; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/) President Trump has characteristically tried to divert public attention from his botched response to…
In “Paper Hearing,” Experts Debate Digital Contact Tracing and Coronavirus Privacy Concerns
Read the original article: In “Paper Hearing,” Experts Debate Digital Contact Tracing and Coronavirus Privacy Concerns The Chairman, Sen. Roger Wicker, and Ranking Member, Sen. Maria Cantrell, of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which recently held a…
Shell Corporations Facilitate Contracting Fraud at the Department of Defense
Read the original article: Shell Corporations Facilitate Contracting Fraud at the Department of Defense Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean Tkacsik works on a C-17 Globemaster III engine at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, April 14, 2020 (Source: Joshua…
Public Health in the Balance: Judicial Review of Pandemic-Related Government Restrictions
Read the original article: Public Health in the Balance: Judicial Review of Pandemic-Related Government Restrictions People gather for a protest against social distancing measures at the Governor’s Residence in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Source: Lorie Shaull, https://flic.kr/p/2iRp9xz; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)…
International Air Travel as an Indicator of COVID-19 Economic Recovery
Read the original article: International Air Travel as an Indicator of COVID-19 Economic Recovery Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aero_icarus/6414430209) It seems likely that routine international air travel may not resume until the end of June at the earliest. That,…
Russia’s Recent Space Activity Is a Return to Old Form
Read the original article: Russia’s Recent Space Activity Is a Return to Old Form The The National Space Defense Center at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado their operations floor gets designated to Senior Master Sgt. Harold Mosley, II (U.S. Air…
Abdullah al-Faisal’s Global Jihad
Read the original article: Abdullah al-Faisal’s Global Jihad Abdullah al-Faisal appears in a video archived from his website, Authentic Tauheed. Photo credit: Screenshot taken from Internet Archive Editor’s Note: The history of the modern jihadist movement is often the tale…
Election Modifications to Avoid During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Read the original article: Election Modifications to Avoid During the COVID-19 Pandemic A poll worker prepares ballots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which held primaries on April 7, 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic. (By: Coburn Dukehart, https://flic.kr/p/2iNGf73; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) As…
The House of Representatives Needs an Audit System for Not-In-Person Voting
Read the original article: The House of Representatives Needs an Audit System for Not-In-Person Voting Nancy Pelosi speaks to the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention. (By: Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/2g8vANE; CC BY SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on…
What to Make of New U.S. Actions Against Foreign Telecoms
Read the original article: What to Make of New U.S. Actions Against Foreign Telecoms Attorney General William Barr addresses a crowd from a Department of Justice press conference, Feb. 2020 (https://www.justice.gov/entity-popup/file/1246966/Public Domain) On April 4, President Trump signed an executive…
The Middle East Unraveling
Read the original article: The Middle East Unraveling PDF Version. A review of Kim Ghattas, “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East” (Henry Holt & Co., 2020)…
COVID-19 Is a Severe Test for Germany’s Postwar Constitution
Read the original article: COVID-19 Is a Severe Test for Germany’s Postwar Constitution Angela Merkel speaks with the media after her arrival at the European Council. (Source: Flickr/European Council) On March 22, in response to a stark reassessment of the…
5G After COVID-19
Read the original article: 5G After COVID-19 A 5G tower in Germany. (Source: Fabian Horst, https://tinyurl.com/wezjkh6; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) The global coronavirus crisis has increased concerns within some quarters of the U.S. government about America’s supply-chain dependence on China.…
The Weaponization of Dogs on the Internet
Read the original article: The Weaponization of Dogs on the Internet (Source: Peter Steiner, The New Yorker, 1993; Licensed by Cartoon Collections to Lawfare, Website/Blog/Electronic Publication- Non Commercial) In 1993, Pete Steiner published the New Yorker’s most reproduced cartoon of…