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The Biden administration has a plausible but not clinching argument for avoiding the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act if the agreement is unwritten.

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by UVA Law Professor Paul Stephan to talk through the close-calls in this week's national security news, including: “Xi’s All That.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing this past week, for a long delayed sit-down with President Xi Jinping to try and de-escalate the two superpowers’ tense relationship. Was this meeting a smart move or a giveaway? And what should we make of President Biden calling the Chinese leader a “dictator” shortly after Blinken’s return?

A recent European decision does not go exactly that far, but it imperils such data transfers, at least until stronger controls over U.S. surveillance law are in place and recognized as adequate by the European Union.

The shift to "over-the-horizon" operations has removed important building blocks in U.S. counterterrorism strategy.

If EU concerns about Meta sound like déjà vu to U.S. ears, they should.

Insisting on similarity is a kind of lie to make Clinton’s conduct look worse than it was, to make Trump’s look more benign than it was, or both at the same time.

Years before he launched an abortive mutiny against the Russian Ministry of Defense, Prigozhin was busy interfering in the 2016 U.S. election.

The report details agencies’ failures to collect and analyze intelligence on potential violence in the lead up to the attack on the Capitol.

Big changes are afoot. Apologies in advance for any glitches.

Human rights investigator Fionnuala Ní Aoláin found that detainees had sustained “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.”