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Manafort indictment kicks off a complicated story
News, Noah Feldman, Published on 01/11/2017
» So now we know how this game of Clue starts: Paul Manafort with a wire transfer in the parlour. But Democrats who are getting revved up for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to follow the money from Russia to Donald Trump's campaign shouldn't get too excited, at least not yet.
Rude awakening from what is a Trump nightmare
News, Published on 29/05/2017
» The American people can escape from the ordeal of Donald Trump's presidency in one of three ways. But if and when they do is an irreducibly political question, not one that hinges on legal possibilities.
Comey's firing is a crisis of American rule of law
News, Noah Feldman, Published on 11/05/2017
» It's not a constitutional crisis. Technically, President Donald Trump was within his constitutional rights on Tuesday when he fired FBI Director James Comey. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is part of the executive branch, not an independent agency. But the firing did violate a powerful unwritten norm: that the director serves a 10-year, nonrenewable term and is fired only for good cause.
Trump, WikiLeaks and doing business with Russia
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2017
» When a Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Mr Assange had released a huge cache of secret US diplomatic cables, the reality TV star had no doubts: "I think it's disgraceful, I think there should be like the death penalty or something."
No good will come from US election
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2016
» Donald Trump may not win the election next week -- although he is at least going to come close -- but even if he loses, the wells are poisoned.
Apple's FBI battle will speed safeguards
News, Published on 25/02/2016
» The legal showdown between Apple Inc and US law enforcement over encryption, no matter the outcome, will likely accelerate tech company efforts to engineer safeguards against government intrusion, tech industry executives say.
Woman in California rampage had become more devout
News, Published on 07/12/2015
» A change came over Tashfeen Malik two or three years ago.
Attacks underline foreign jihadist threat
News, Published on 13/01/2015
» Paris held a "unity rally" on Sunday which was attended by world leaders from more than 40 nations, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.