Strauss Center Director Adam Klein spoke at the Committee Hearing for the Texas House Select Committee on Securing Texas from Hostile Foreign Organizations, highlighted in the December 2024 Interim Report. Director Klein’s oral and written testimony highlighted some of the most pressing national security threats for Texas, including espionage, cybercrime, subversion, and Iran’s efforts to support protest movements within the United States. Klein emphasized how the disruption of schools and critical infrastructure pose some of the most immediate concerns for Texas security, and highlighted the role of the Strauss Center’s Texas Cybersecurity Clinic in attempting to combat potential threats.
Read the full Interim Report with recommendations from Director Klein here.
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein was interviewed for The Christian Science Monitor on "Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines," which discusses the national security and privacy issues surrounding Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of April. “Imagine that, today, an FBI agent is...
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law congratulates Strauss Center Senior Fellow Brock Dahl on his nomination to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State. Brock is one of the nation's foremost national security lawyers.
Strauss Center National Security Law Fellow Megan Ezekannagha published an article with Lieber Institute at West Point's Articles of War on "Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War." Part I is available here and Part II is available here. "Integrating AI into counterfire offers the Army a credible way to compress the sensor-to-shooter...