Rishabh Bhandari, CNBC

Rishabh Bhandari

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United Kingdom

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  • Lawfare

Past articles by Rishabh:

Why impeaching Trump is a bad idea—commentary

Removing Trump from office would further anger the very voters who elected him, Rishabh Bhandari & Aaron Sibarium write in the National Review. → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, delving into his decision to disclose information related to the Clinton email investigation immediately prior to the election. → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

The Wall Street Journal reports that the courts delivered another blow to the White House’s immigration regime after a federal district judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the implementation of President Trump’s executive order, which sought to deny sanctuary cities federal funding for limiting their cooperation with federal law enforcement on illegal immigration. U.S. → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for two bombings against Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday. The Wall Street Journal reports that the attacks killed at least 47 people, just weeks before Pope Francis is slated to arrive in Egypt for the first time. → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

President Donald Trump accused his predecessor, President Barack Obama, on Saturday of tapping his phones at Trump Tower in the lead-up to the November presidential election. Trump delivered these explosive charges without offering any evidence or a heads-up to key aides, who were caught off-guard by the president’s tweets. Aides to Obama curtly rebuffed Trump’s accusations as “baseless” while… → Read More

The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Benjamin Wittes celebrated Lawfare’s sixth birthday with our readers and asked that readers consider contributing to our fundraising drive to help this publication’s coverage expand. Quinta Jurecic uploaded the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that Abd al Rahim al Nashiri cannot turn to the federal court system to block his ongoing military commission trial. Steve Vladeck began Lawfare’s… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

Turkey has continued to move farther and farther into northern Syria, with Turkish forces no longer targeting ISIS but pushing into regions controlled by Syrian rebel forcesincluding the Kurdish YPG, Reuters reports. Brett McGurk, the U.S. special envoy against ISIS, stated that the United States finds Turkey’s military actions “in areas where ISIL is not located… unacceptable and a source of… → Read More

The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Susan Hennessey organized a list of more than 230 women, who are experts in the fields of national security law and tech policy. Charlie Dunlap argued that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may actually agree that the United States needs to be more aggressive in pursuing material support litigation. Elizabeth McElvein parsed through the latest polls to see how voters are viewing the national… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, are meeting in Geneva to hammer out final details of a cooperation agreement to partner against the Islamic State. Diplomats on both sides said they hoped a breakthrough would lead to a cessation of hostilities and restart talks on a political settlement in Syria. Talks of cooperation between Washington and Moscow… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

Turkish forces crossed the border into Syria today in Turkey’s largest yet military involvement in the Syrian conflict, coordinating with US forces to push the Islamic State out of the group’s stronghold in the town of Jarablus. Rebel troops have announced that the operation was successful. While Turkey and the US hope to deprive ISIS of a smuggling route by pushing it away from the Turkish… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

The Pentagon has warned the Syrian regime to not deploy Syrian air force in areas in northern Syria where U.S. forces are also operating. Peter Cook, a Defense Department spokesman, said, “we’re going to defend our forces where they are. We advise them to steer clear of where we’re operating.” The U.S. message was relayed to the Syrian regime via Russia. Last week, the U.S. scrambled two F-22s… → Read More

The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Paul Rosenzweig highlighted another round of alleged Russian hacks into Democratic Party affiliates and warned that the drip will continue absent a robust response by the United States. Carrie Cordero pointed us to an oped she wrote urging lawmakers to act swiftly and secure our electoral system from possible cyberattacks. Nicholas Weaver studied the code behind “Sauron,” a recently unveiled… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

Violence between the Syrian regime and Kurdish forces escalated yesterday, with Syrian warships launching airstrikes against U.S.-backed Kurdish troops in the northeastern Syrian city of Hassakeh. The escalation adds yet another front in Syria’s already complicated battlefield and comes after the Syrian Democratic Force, a primarily ethnic Kurdish force, recaptured Manbij from the Islamic State… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

Russia launched airstrikes from an Iranian air base into Syria for the second day in a row on Wednesday, killing more than 150 militants and destroying two command posts in Syria’s Deir al-Zor province. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed allegations by the United States that these actions violated UN Security Council resolution 2231, prohibiting the supply, sale and transfer of… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commentary

In a continuation of the hack that previously affected the DNC and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a hacker widely believed to be a front for the Russian government has released the personal cell phone numbers and email addresses of nearly all Democratic members of the House of Representatives. The leak came on Friday as part of a larger release that included other documents from… → Read More

The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Benjamin Wittes broke down the newly released “Drone Playbook” and why this is another sign that we need a morally serious president. Robert Loeb notified us of a lawsuit that grieving parents of two fallen men at Benghazi have filed against Hillary Clinton. John Bellinger published an open letter that he and 49 other Republican senior foreign policy operatives signed declaring Donald Trump… → Read More

The Law Under Attack in Pakistan

Earlier this week, a suicide bomber outside a crowded hospital in Quetta, Pakistan killed at least 74 people, most of them judges or lawyers, and wounded dozens more. Yesterday, another blast in Quetta wounded an additional 13 people. The provincial interior minister told Reuters that the bombing targeted police escorting a judge, who was not killed in the attack. Local TV stations have warned… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commenary

Al Jazeera reports that the Syrian government has sent thousands of reinforcements to mount a counterattack in Aleppo after rebels broke through government lines two days earlier. The Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement and the government have mobilized more than 3,000 troops and fighters in an attempt to recapture the areas where the rebels made their breakthrough. Hezbollah's battle-hardened… → Read More

Today's Headlines and Commenary

Al Jazeera reports that the Syrian government has sent thousands of reinforcements to mount a counterattack in Aleppo after rebels broke through government lines two days earlier. The Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement and the government have mobilized more than 3,000 troops and fighters in an attempt to recapture the areas where the rebels made their breakthrough. Hezbollah's battle-hardened… → Read More

The Week That Will Be

Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, August 8th at 5:30pm: The Young Professionals in International Affairs and the Osgood Center for International Studies will host a Discussion with Ambassador Thomas Pickering at the Elliot School of International Affairs. More information is available here. Tuesday, August 9th at 9:00am: A panel of experts at the Hudson Institute… → Read More