Unpacking the Justice Department's Opposition to the Trump Team's Special Master Request
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Classification System Isn't Designed to Protect Classified Information
The idea that the president might just dish, you know, israeli operations against isis to the russian foreign minister in the oval office isn't something a normal white house has to contemplate. And so i think this is just an area where looking for a the chains that can bind donald trump in his capacity as president is probably a fruitless endeavor. It's just an areawhere he's uniquely incompatible with our assumptions about the nature of the office.
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