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Pentagon Leaders Say the Budget Process Hurts National Security. They're Right.

OPINION — “The stark truth is that these short-term, temporary funding measures create uncertainty throughout the U.S. military and put us at a [...] More

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Targeting FBI Budget Makes Us More Vulnerable on Cyber

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION: The House Appropriations Committee is proposing significant cuts to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) budget, [...] More

A Guide to Last Week's Path to Potential Shutdown

OPINION — “Here on the House floor, we see when extreme MAGA (Make America Great Again), rightwing Republicans don’t get their way, when they lose [...] More

The Intricate Balance of Protecting Journalism and National Security

OPINION — Just a few months after being approved out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the newly amended bipartisan Journalism Competition and [...] More

The Urgency of the Moment for Congress on AI and National Security

The Urgency of the Moment for Congress on AI and National Security

(Editor’s Note: This article is the fifth and final article in a series first published by our friends at Just Security that is dives into the [...] More

Congress' Failure to Inform on Worldwide Threats

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More

A Worldwide Threats Hearing Guide from the Bleachers

As US Worldwide Threats hearings get underway in Washington after a two-year hiatus, experts will be watching to see how the Biden Administration's [...] More

A Bill, the President and China

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More

Congress Needs to Keep Up with AI

OPINION –The Defense Department’s unclassified investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown from $600 million five years ago, to a proposed [...] More

When Congressional Hearings become Overtly Political

OPINION — On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on an authorization for Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to issue [...] More

Congress MIA on Oversight Responsibilities

OPINION — When are members of Congress going to wake up and play their Constitutional role as an equal branch of government?Neither the Democratic [...] More

Why do we need Plutonium Pits?

OPINION — The Trump administration’s year-old plan to vastly increase future production of plutonium pits, the triggers of thermonuclear weapons, [...] More

Congress Debates Whether the AUMF Has Outlived Its Mandate

Bottom Line Up FrontFor the first time since 2001, there might be meaningful Congressional oversight over the Authorization for the Use of Military [...] More