Fault Lines is the fortnightly podcast of the National Security Institute at George Mason University, featuring a regular cast of foreign policy experts: Jodi Herman, former
Democratic Staff Director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Jamil Jaffer, Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute and former Chief [...]
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. Since 2002, the rule of Turkish politics has been clear and simple: Turkey periodically holds elections,
and the winning party remains the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [...]
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters that President Trump blocked military aid to Ukraine in an effort to force the Ukrainian government to investigate
the Biden family, reports the Washington Post. Mulvaney defended Trump’s action as “absolutely appropriate.” [...]
John Bies’s Sept. 30 post (“Giuliani Cannot Rely on Attorney-Client Privilege to Avoid Congressional Testimony”) is informative but doesn’t quite explain the full scope
of a lawyer’s confidentiality responsibilities, nor does it address the implications of Congress compelling an attorney to breach them. [...]
The Hoover Institution will host a book event on Oct. 24 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., where Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith will discuss his new book, “In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather,
a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth,” with William Galston of the Brookings Institution. [...]
Why are U.S. intelligence agencies still applying extraordinary safeguards to the incidentally collected communications of Chinese, Russian and Iranian citizens as well as
the nationals of EU allies that refuse to offer similar privacy protections to Americans? [...]
Gordon D. Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, will appear on Thursday before House impeachment investigators from the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Foreign
Affairs and Intelligence. His opening statement is available here and below: [...]
Testimony on Capitol Hill this week reveals that Rudy Giuliani was running a shadow foreign policy on Ukraine. The White House vows not to cooperate with the impeachment investigation.
And Turkish forces move into Syria, sparking a new national security crisis. [...]
On Tuesday, CNN and the New York Times hosted the fourth debate of the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, moderated by Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Mark Lacey. We’ve
combed through the transcript from the debate to present the national security-related exchanges. [...]
One of the most damning allegations in the whistleblower complaint is that President Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President
Joe Biden and his son by withholding congressionally approved military aid. The amounts include $250 million from the Defense Department and $141 million from the [...]
