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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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July 11, 2013
Homeland Security
Has the FISA Court Gone Too Far?
While the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted U.S. agencies broad legal authority to collect sensitive information, it is hardly a "rubber stamp" for government surveillance requests,…
January 13, 2004
Iraq
Perkovich: Independent Body Needed to Investigate Intelligence ‘Failures’ in Iraq
George Perkovich, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a co-author of a new report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD), says that administrat…
March 2, 2011
United States
Secretary Gates’s Strategic Thinking
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent West Point speech promoted the need for better strategic thinking by the U.S. military to supplant a current emphasis on counterinsurgency tactics and natio…
December 15, 2008
International Law
Problems in Closing Guantanamo Detention Camp
Matthew C. Waxman, a former Pentagon official overseeing detainee affairs, says the controversial camp at Guantanamo Bay should be closed but that doing so will raise several key questions about lega…
May 15, 2017
Defense and Security
Will FBI Sacking Affect National Security?
The dismissal of FBI Director James Comey raises concerns about the government’s ability to investigate Russian meddling in U.S. elections, and the broader national security role of the agency.
