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• Commentary
  • Lawfare
  • March 27, 2017
  Bipartisan Investigations: How the 9/11 Commission Did It

  Whatever your political outlook, the ferment surrounding last year’s presidential election raises important, unanswered questions: What, precisely, did the Russians do, and we...

  By Adam Klein & Chris Kojm

• • Commentary
  • Lawfare
  • March 21, 2017
  Takeaways from House Intel Hearing on Russian “Active Measures”

  Today’s just-concluded HPSCI hearing provided an informative, remarkably varied tour d’horizon of issues related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. The biggest head...

  By Adam Klein

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • March 21, 2017
  Investigate Russia, but Congress also needs to deter the next hack

  Even as Congress and the FBI investigates Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, Congress urgently needs to act to prevent and deter Russia and other countri...

  By Peter Harrell

• Podcast
  • March 20, 2017
  Investigating Russian Hacking, Wiretapping Claims, and Surveillance Leaks

  Adam Klein, senior fellow and surveillance expert at CNAS, provides an overview of the investigations into Russian active measures during the 2016 election campaign and Presid...

  By Adam Klein & Neal Urwitz

• Congressional Testimony
  • March 1, 2017
  Adam Klein before the House Judiciary Committee

  Chairman Goodlatte, Ranking Member Conyers, and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. In today’s chaotic world, our country faces a complex...

  By Adam Klein

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • February 27, 2017
  Defense Secretary Mattis has rare, brief chance for Pentagon reform

  In a few days, the Pentagon will submit an interim report to Congress in response to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) providing an update on Secretary James ...

  By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Madeline Christian

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • February 22, 2017
  The Pushback: Why the Trump Administration Needs to Play Hardball with Europe's Intelligence Community

  Foreign policy was a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign and his presidential transition. China and Taiwan, ISIS, the Iran deal, and possible cooper...

  By Adam Klein

• Podcast
  • February 21, 2017
  Turning AT&L Reorganization into Technical Advantage

  Technology and national security experts Ben FitzGerald and Alexandra Sander discuss a new report recommending the DoD leverage organizational reforms to drive military-techni...

  By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Neal Urwitz

• Commentary
  • Lawfare
  • February 17, 2017
  It’s Not About Mike Flynn

  As Lawfare readers know, someone in government leaked the news that Michael Flynn did indeed discuss sanctions in his post-election phone calls with Russia’s Ambassador to the...

  By Adam Klein

• Commentary
  • TechCrunch
  • February 8, 2017
  Trump, tech, and the future of government surveillance

  Beginning with 2013’s Snowden leaks, the Obama administration publicly wrestled with various thorny issues at the intersection of technology and government surveillance. When,...

  By Adam Klein

• Podcast
  • January 31, 2017
  Paul Scharre, Ben FitzGerald and Dan Gettinger on The Drone Database

  CNAS senior fellows Ben FitzGerald and Paul Scharre were joined by Dan Gettinger, founder and co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, to discuss ...

  By Paul Scharre, Ben FitzGerald & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • January 17, 2017
  Why the United States Is Losing Its Technological Edge

  Earlier this month, President-elect Donald Trump drew headlines for his criticism of two major defense programs, the Air Force One replacement and the Joint Strike Fighter (F-...

  By Ben FitzGerald

• • Video
  • January 9, 2017
  CNN State of the Union: This Week in Intelligence

  A panel including Michèle Flournoy, Mike Rogers, and Rep. Adam Schiff discusses the week's news in intelligence on CNN's State of the Union. Topics include the Fort Laude...

  By Michèle Flournoy

• Commentary
  • Politico
  • January 4, 2017
  Why Trump must save the government's privacy board

  The terror attack in a popular Istanbul nightclub on Sunday is yet another reminder of the need for capable and vigorous counterterrorism programs. At the same time, the Unite...

  By Adam Klein

• • Commentary
  • Lawfare
  • December 22, 2016
  Surveillance Policy in a Trump Administration

  Last week, co-authors Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, and I released a Center for a New American Security report on the future of surveillance policy.  The full report is ...

  By Adam Klein

• Video
  • December 14, 2016
  Future Foundry: DOD Innovation and the NDAA

  By Michèle Flournoy, Christian Brose, Raj Shah & Gordon Lubold

• • Video
  • December 14, 2016
  Future Foundry: Presentation of a New CNAS Report

  By The Honorable William J. Lynn III, The Honorable Sean O'Keefe & Ben FitzGerald

• • Podcast
  • December 13, 2016
  Latest Trump target: the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program

  Another day, another market-moving tweet from the future President of the United States. This time the target was defense contractor Lockheed Martin, and its F-35 Joint Strike...

  By Ben FitzGerald

• Video
  • December 12, 2016
  Surveillance Policy: A Pragmatic Agenda for 2017 and Beyond

  On December 12, CNAS will release a comprehensive report on the future of surveillance policy, including 61 recommendations for the next administration and Congress.  The...

  By Adam Klein

• Video
  • November 30, 2016
  Jonathan Mostowski on Modernizing DoD Travel

  Defense Digital Service's Jonathan Mostowski is streamlining and modernizing DoD travel and modernizing DTS with programs like Hack the Pentagon....