"'A good prosecutor withdraws from a case when they can't in good conscience continue to participate. That's how serious it is,' said Lisa Monaco, a partner at O'Melveny who was a senior justice department official in the Obama administration..." Read the full article here: Full Article
"In 2018, I published an article with public health expert Vin Gupta sounding the alarm about the failure to prepare adequately for emerging infectious diseases. We were hardly the only ones. Our article, 'The Next Pandemic Will Be Arriving Shortly,' joined many national security and public health experts in using the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed 50 million people, to focus attention on the national security imperative that is pandemic disease. From my perspective as the [...]
"Former homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco recalled a conversation with McConnell where he stated, 'You security people should be careful that you're not getting used,' which she interpreted as the GOP leader doubting the intelligence concluding Russia was attempting to interfere..." Read the full article here: Full Article
"In this Stay Tuned special bonus, national security experts Lisa Monaco and Ken Wainstein discuss the latest news stories that aren't about impeachment: Coronavirus, encryption, and the controversy over Carter Page FISA warrants..." Listen to the full podcast here: Full Podcast
"According to a recent report by the bipartisan Aspen Cybersecurity Group, technological and scientific innovation isn’t just an economic issue; innovation has national-security and geopolitical implications. 'Will America lead the technology that secures Americans?' Lisa Monaco, co-chair of the Aspen group, asked Axios. 'Will American values be reflected in the technologies of the future?' "This is exactly the sort of question that America’s leaders should be asking..." Read the full article here: Full Article
“'If indeed the strike was taken to disrupt an imminent threat to U.S. persons — and that picture seems to be getting murkier by the minute — the case should be made to Congress and to the public, consistent with national security,' said Lisa Monaco, a former senior F.B.I. official and homeland security adviser to President Barack Obama. 'Failure to do so hurts our credibility and deterrence going forward.' "Intelligence officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive [...]
"Qasem Soleimani was pure evil. He had the blood of innocents the world over on his hands, including hundreds of our troops due to a murderous campaign of improvised explosive devices that he masterminded during the Iraq War. A terrorist mastermind is dead, and for that we should be grateful. "But whether we are safer is just one of the many questions unleashed in the wake of Friday’s drone strike at the Baghdad airport, along with profound implications for the security [...]
"I think we're right now in a situation that unfortunately seems to be spiraling and there's no real clear offramp. In terms of the explanations thus far, I think what we've seen is a series of mixed messages. And it's very, very important that the administration brief, on a bipartisan basis, Congress about what did lead to the attack. "Let's be clear. I'm not mourning, nobody should be mourning, quite frankly, Qasem Soleimani. The man was pure evil. He has the [...]
"'We need to be at an increased security posture to protect against threats to our people in Baghdad and more broadly, we should consider risks beyond the immediate region given the penchant for proxies abroad,' said Lisa Monaco, homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama..." Read the full article here: Full Article
"Democrats have essentially rested their case to the American people that President Trump should be impeached. Will it change any minds among Republicans in the House or Senate? And how is President Trump handling all this? Zachary Wolf, senior writer and publisher of the Impeachment Watch Newsletter, discusses the 'never Trumpers' rhetoric the President is pushing with CNN reporter and producer Marshall Cohen. Lisa Moncao, CNN senior national security analyst, also joins the conversation to offer her perspective, as a former [...]