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Congressional efforts to repeal Iraq war authorization raise questions about Iranian proxies
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A House push to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) has picked up support across the political spectrum as President Joe Biden begins taking signifi...
By Richard Fontaine
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Congress looks to Biden as an ally as it tries to finally rewrite authority for the war on terror
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There's a new movement afoot to finally curb the President's 9/11 war powers, and the Republicans and Democrats pushing it have hope in a key ally: the President himself. On t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pelosi says she spoke to top general about ensuring Trump doesn’t launch nuclear attack
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues Friday that she had spoken to the Pentagon’s top general about keeping an “unstable president” from accessing the nuclear codes,...
By Jim Golby
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Trump’s postelection power plays risk troubles at home and abroad
Since President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection last week, his lies and lawsuits and his fuming and firings have left the country and the world wondering: Is he just ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump's baseless election attacks undermining U.S. image abroad
President Trump’s repeated demand on Thursday morning to “STOP THE COUNT!” of votes in the presidential election, combined with his other recent statements casting doubt on th...
By Richard Fontaine
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Election Less Than a Month Away, Trump Leans on Barr and Pompeo for a Lift
President Trump forced the State Department on Friday to commit to releasing at least some of Hillary Clinton’s emails before next month’s election, resurrecting a four-year-o...
By Carrie Cordero
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Trump’s debts and foreign deals pose security risks, former intelligence officials say
Security teams at U.S. spy agencies are constantly scouring employee records for signs of potential compromise: daunting levels of debt, troubling overseas entanglements, hidd...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Leaked Treasury Documents Prompt Fresh Calls for Updated Anti-Money-Laundering Regulations
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A leak of U.S. Treasury Department records on red-flagged financial transactions underscores a message that national security officials, banks and regulators have been sending...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The Trump foreign policies Biden might keep
It’s the type of question that does not land well with advisers to Joe Biden: Aren’t there some Donald Trump foreign policy decisions they should keep, and maybe even build up...
By Richard Fontaine
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Are China and Iran meddling in US elections? It’s complicated.
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This spring, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua posted a roughly two-minute video titled “Once Upon a Virus” on social media, including on official Chinese government ac...
By Carrie Cordero
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Mattis says Trump ‘tries to divide us’ in stinging rebuke
Jim Mattis, a retired general and former defense secretary, castigated Donald Trump as an immature president making “a mockery” of the constitution, as he joined a chorus of r...
By Richard Fontaine
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Americans losing faith in elections as Trump discredits voting systems
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The diatribes are as unnerving and unrelenting as they are untrue: An incumbent president warning that the nation’s voting systems are cauldrons for fraud and ripe for rigging...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic values
The setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS, CERL, and APPC Announce Collaboration on Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Election against Foreign Interference
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (CERL) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (...
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Gathering intelligence during a pandemic
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The Intelligence Community by many accounts was on to the possibility of a pandemic like this one for a long time. Well, now that it’s here, what effect might the pandemic be ...
By Martijn Rasser
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CNAS Responds: Coronavirus Outbreak Tests Every Aspect of U.S. and International Security
As regions across the U.S. announce states of emergency and a growing list of countries restrict travel, close schools, and quarantine citizens, the economic costs of the coro...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Paul Scharre, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, COL Sarah Albrycht, Kristine Lee, Peter Harrell, John Hughes, Rachel Ziemba, Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Will Mackenzie, Ashley Feng, Kaleigh Thomas, Carisa Nietsche, Emma Moore, Joshua Fitt, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth & Ainikki Riikonen
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‘Our friends didn’t have to die’: Afghanistan Papers surface pain and familiar frustrations
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Lawmakers, veterans and experts have expressed shock and resignation after a Washington Post report Monday unveiled 18 years of distortion by U.S. officials over the prosecuti...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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‘Severe Instability:’ Trump Boots Bolton, Third National Security Advisor
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President Donald Trump today fired John Bolton, the fire-eating National Security Advisor who pressed for conflict with Iran and many other places. The next advisor, who Trump...
By Carrie Cordero
