Asha Rangappa

I'm a process person. Process is a manifestation of values.

— Asha Rangappa

The Russian cloud over the Trump administration never seems to disappear.

— Asha Rangappa

College acceptances, particularly of high-profile teens and celebrities, make the news cycle each year.

— Asha Rangappa

There's no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want.

— Asha Rangappa

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

— Asha Rangappa

The FBI is not in the habit of leaving loose ends. That's not what they do.

— Asha Rangappa

President Trump is a defense lawyer's worst nightmare - and a dream defendant for special counsel Robert Mueller.

— Asha Rangappa

My experience investigating foreign propaganda operations predated the proliferation of social media platforms.

— Asha Rangappa

FYI, there are basically only three things besides a vest that will stop a bullet: a tree trunk, the engine block of…

— Asha Rangappa

Without a way to make regular, positive deposits in social relationships that bridge political lines, every civic debate is a withdrawal without…

— Asha Rangappa

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

— Asha Rangappa

White Southerners created an entire cosmetics industry equating beauty with whiteness and trained a string of winning Miss Americas who embodied their…

— Asha Rangappa

For wealthy or privileged students, applying to Ivy League schools or elite schools is sort of expected of them. If you go…

— Asha Rangappa

Exposing the activities of a foreign intelligence service renders them ineffective, since it removes plausible deniability, which is the hallmark of covert…

— Asha Rangappa

Facebook is primarily a mechanism for bonding, not bridging. Studies show that in the vast majority of cases, people live in self-made…

— Asha Rangappa

Facebook's greatest strength - its ability to identify and connect like-minded people - is also a major vulnerability.

— Asha Rangappa

Presidents have, of course, acted inappropriately in the past, and our constitutional system has a framework in place for addressing misconduct by…

— Asha Rangappa

Under the dual sovereignty principle, the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on double jeopardy - which prevents the government from trying someone twice for…

— Asha Rangappa

Field offices are evaluated in part based on their success in following through on leads and making cases that result in arrests…

— Asha Rangappa

Trump has repeatedly insisted that he is innocent of colluding with Russia and had no idea about his campaign staff's Russia contacts.…

— Asha Rangappa

Reflexive control is a 'uniquely Russian' technique of psychological manipulation through disinformation. The idea is to feed your adversary a set of…

— Asha Rangappa

And, you know, in my opinion, when the FBI uses these sources, there are a lot of internal guidelines on how they…

— Asha Rangappa

Originally, in fact, the power to pardon was used precisely for economic and political ends. Legal historians have noted that in England,…

— Asha Rangappa

The president, by virtue of his office, can easily 'go dark' when it comes to conversations with foreign leaders, even if he…

— Asha Rangappa

If there's one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it's to pay attention to the footnotes. In fact, oftentimes the most…

— Asha Rangappa

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how…

— Asha Rangappa

I was a pretty unsavvy applicant, and I am grateful that the dean of admissions at Princeton chose to take a chance…

— Asha Rangappa

When presidents decide to litigate an issue to protect their policy decisions, they are more likely to act judiciously, and with an…

— Asha Rangappa

In the case of someone sharing classified information with foreign intelligence, for example, the FBI could surreptitiously ensure that they are no…

— Asha Rangappa

When I did counterintelligence investigations, they rarely saw the inside of a courtroom. That wasn't the goal of them.

— Asha Rangappa

I mean, the FBI has to assure people who come and help them that they're going to be able to keep their…

— Asha Rangappa

The idea of dual sovereignty rests on the premise that the power of the states to prosecute crimes existed before the creation…

— Asha Rangappa

Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer…

— Asha Rangappa

In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.'s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights…

— Asha Rangappa

Russia has taken advantage of its exalted status among right-wing extremists to expand its influence throughout Europe.

— Asha Rangappa

In a typical whistleblower scenario where the inspector general determines a complaint to be credible and urgent, there would be no colorable…

— Asha Rangappa

The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president's power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.

— Asha Rangappa

Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources…

— Asha Rangappa

Like any country with sophisticated intelligence services, Russia has long been a careful student of U.S. freedoms, laws and the constraints of…

— Asha Rangappa

The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.

— Asha Rangappa