{"id":231,"date":"2026-06-27T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:08:08","slug":"the-week-that-was-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Renee DiResta unpacked Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s \u201cFauci Files\u201d\u2014released in her final act as director of national intelligence\u2014 and found that the documents don\u2019t actually support Gabbard\u2019s headline claims that Anthony Fauci funded research that \u201csparked COVID,\u201d manipulated intelligence assessments, or lied to Congress. DiResta argued that the release is a case study in declassification as political theater: put the conclusion in the headline, dump 67 documents few will actually read, and let the framing do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=230\">Harsh Confinement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Brandon DeBot and Kelsey Merrick spoke to Roger Parloff about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche\u2019s purported waiver of President Trump\u2019s past tax liabilities as part of a settlement in Trump\u2019s $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service. DeBot and Merrick discussed whether those who negotiated the deal might face criminal liability and what steps Congress should take.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a3a8ef0d1eb16a425a0f44f\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Live: <\/em>The Trials of the Trump Administration, Natalie Orpett sat down with Molly Roberts, Eric Columbus, and  Parloff to discuss the indictment of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors in Minnesota, a new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration&#8217;s plans to redesign the West Potomac Park, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5cLl_JHiPs\" title=\"Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 22\" width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily,<\/em> Benjamin Wittes and Michael Feinberg discussed the methods and techniques the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used to investigate President Trump as part of the Arctic Frost investigation, and whether Congressional Republicans\u2019 continued critiques of the investigation hold up when compared to FBI policies.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a3c53905bb8a79968f17074\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Peter Beck and Jacob Ware highlighted a key omission in the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: extremism and violence from the far right, a position called into question by existing research and a recent attack on a mosque in San Diego. Launching rhetorical attacks against the far left, Beck and Ware argued, prevents the document from substantively addressing security threats.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Tyler McBrien sat down with Jasper Craven to discuss his new book, \u201cGod Forgives, Brothers Don&#8217;t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.\u201d They discussed why Craven, the son of a peace activist, embarked on this project, how military education helps explain the current political moment in the United States, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a32d0e70eff831521803dcb\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the latest edition of <em>Lawfare<\/em>&#8216;s Foreign Policy Essay series,Javier Corrales argued that the playbook used by the Trump administration in its seizure of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Venezuela is not replicable in Cuba. He explained that while the \u201cDelcy Model\u201d used to topple Maduro worked because Venezuela&#8217;s regime was a transactional corruption enterprise susceptible to dealmaking, Cuba\u2019s regime has spent 60 years learning to thrive under U.S. pressure, therefore making a clean insider capitulation far less likely.<\/p>\n<p>On this week\u2019s <em>Lawfare Live: <\/em>The Trials of the Trump Administration, Orpett sat down with Roberts, Columbus, and Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court\u2019s decisions allowing Trump\u2019s cancellation of temporary protective status for Haitians and Syrians, the D.C. Circuit\u2019s ruling that the administration\u2019s expedited removal procedures are likely lawful, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GWtFvXMTeWo\" title=\"Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 26\" width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Charles Lane reviewed W. Fitzhugh Brundage\u2019s book, \u201cA Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War,\u201d finding that the book offers a compelling account of the deliberate cruelty endured by Civil War prisoners\u2014and the political intransigence that turned captivity into a death sentence for tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Rational Security, <\/em>Scott R. Anderson sat down with Kevin Frazier, Parloff, and Roberts to talk through the week\u2019s big national security news stories, including the Department of Defense\u2019s intervention in the NAACP\u2019s lawsuit against xAI, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, and a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration\u2019s export control order on Anthropic\u2019s top AI models.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a3e0c9913f23e0ab6075ef9\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Justin Sherman explained that the open-source and commercial data ecosystem that the United States has long exploited for its own intelligence purposes is equally available to sophisticated foreign adversaries, and policymakers have yet to reckon with it.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Stodder warned that cheap, mass-produced drones have transformed warfare in ways that pose a serious and underappreciated threat to U.S. cities and critical infrastructure, and that U.S. defenses to combat drone attacks are nearly nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=228\">Scaling Laws: \u201cThe God Test\u201d AI as Cosmic Reckoning, with Robert Wright<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philip Rohlfing highlighted a key restraint on Congress\u2019s recent legislation to allow state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement to respond to unmanned aircraft systems. Rohlfing explained how the changes permit non-federal law enforcement authorities to act, but only if they receive certification from a single federal schoolhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Propp analyzed the European Union\u2019s proposed \u201cCloud and AI Development Act\u201d (CADA), which seeks to reduce dependence on U.S. tech companies in a bid for technological sovereignty. Propp explained how CADA\u2019s higher assurance levels put U.S. companies in direct conflict with U.S. law, and argued the legislation reflects a broader transatlantic estrangement accelerated by the Trump administration\u2019s sanctions and stalled data-sharing negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, Tom Uren discussed the recent call-to-action issued by the Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies about the risks of AI-powered cyberthreats, Operation Endgame\u2019s disruption of the SocGholish botnet, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Yaqiu Wang analyzed why there seems to be so little domestic pushback against AI development in China. She explained how Beijing\u2019s centralized, top-down approach to AI, combined with its suppression of dissent, has created a self-reinforcing cycle of development and surveillance where the more AI advances, the harder it is to organize against it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bahrad A. Sokhansanj and Mackenzie Arnold\u2014amid xAI\u2019s First Amendment challenge to California\u2019s AI training data transparency law\u2014considered the intersection of the First Amendment and AI regulation, analyzing how laws requiring disclosures of information from AI companies, such as California\u2019s Assembly Bill No. 2013, could constitute \u201ccompelled commercial speech\u201d and the potential legal consequences thereof.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Tillipman argued the frontier-model evaluation framework created by President Trump\u2019s recent executive order on artificial intelligence is nominally voluntary but becomes de facto regulation due to the government\u2019s outsized power as a buyer of the models.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Willrich shared Trump\u2019s executive orders on quantum computing, which direct federal agencies to implement stronger protections against quantum computing-enabled cryptographic attacks and take action to position the U.S. as the world leader in quantum computing, including a federal government effort to build a large quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<em>Scaling Laws<\/em>, Alan Rozenshtein and Frazier joined Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin of Justified Posteriors to explore the big question of what AI should be for, Pope Leo XIV\u2019s recent encyclical about the technology, the emerging idea of positive AI alignment to promote human flourishing, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/61e878a1419a9b0013b27134\/6a32c8170eff8315217d0b1b\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In last week\u2019s Seriously Risky Businesscybersecurity newsletter, Urendiscussed Anthropic&#8217;s shutdown of its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, the lapse of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 without reauthorization, the European Union\u2019s addition of Ukraine to its Cybersecurity Reserve, and more.<\/p>\n<p>And on another episode of <em>Scaling Laws<\/em>, Rozenshtein spoke with Robert Wright about his new book, \u201cThe God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning.\u201d The conversation covered the multiple meanings of the book\u2019s title, what it means to view AI from a \u201ccosmic\u201d perspective, whether these systems genuinely understand, why near-term disruptions caused by AI may matter most, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=227\">Open-Weight Model Advances Make the Mythos Debate Moot<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/61e878a1419a9b0013b27134\/6a3a09fe520e6781347997f3\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And that was the week that was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your weekly summary of everything on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawfare-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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