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December 2023
The surveillance authorities contained in Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are set to expire on December 31, 2023, unless Congress acts to renew them. Long regarded by the U.S. government as an indispensable national security tool necessary for averting threats posed by foreign terrorists and other external actors, the law has also…
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On Thursday, November 2, 2023, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our second speaker of the 2023-2024 season of A Road Less Traveled: Ian Moss, Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Bureau of Counterterrorism, Department of State. Event Details November 2, 2023 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Furman Hall Room 318…
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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West tells the story of a century-long espionage war between Russia and the West. In Walton’s telling, the Cold War began earlier than is widely understood and extended beyond the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, fueled by an asymmetric conflict of espionage, subversion,…
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At this Forum, former federal prosecutors Mary McCord and Andrew Weissmann recorded an episode of the popular MSNBC podcast they co-host, Prosecuting Donald Trump. Each episode features McCord (now at Georgetown Law) and Weissmann (a professor of practice at NYU Law) dissecting the latest developments in one or more of the four pending criminal cases…
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The Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society are pleased to welcome our first speaker of the 2023-2024 season of A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School. Students are invited to join this lunchtime talk with Susan Hennessey, Chief Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security,…
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Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in Miami. Since the country learned last August of an FBI search of the former president’s residence at Mar-a-Lago for documents marked as classified, details have steadily emerged about the volume of documents there, who had access…
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On Monday, April 3, 2023, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our fifth and final speaker of the 2022-2023 season of A Road Less Traveled: Jeohn Favors, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, National Security Division, Department of Justice. Former: Official, Central Intelligence Agency,…
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On Monday, March 6, 2023, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our fourth speaker of the 2022-2023 season of A Road Less Traveled: Katrina Mulligan, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Army, U.S. Department of the Army. Former: Principal DASD for Special Operations and Low…
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In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Department of State announced the creation of a new Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, the first mandate of its kind in the U.S. diplomatic corps. On February 21, Desirée Cormier Smith joined us to share reflections from her experience as the inaugural Special Representative and…
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On Thursday, February 16, 2023, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our third speaker of the 2022-2023 season of A Road Less Traveled: Albert Sanders, Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google Cloud. Former: Associate Counsel to President Barack Obama, Office of White House Counsel; Counselor…
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