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Sometimes, the intelligence community does legal collection against a legitimate foreign intelligence target and that target interacts with U.S. persons, against whom our people thus end up collecting information as a collateral matter.

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In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.

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Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

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The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.

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There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

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Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.

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Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don't believe.

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Secret courts require great faith that the Justice Department - and future Justice Departments - will act with integrity.

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The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

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Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 5th, 1969

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