--- description: Asha Rangappa is a lawyer and legal commentator, former FBI counterintelligence agent, Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and previously an associate dean at Yale Law School. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Asha Rangappa ## Asha Rangappa Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Asha Rangappa is a lawyer and legal commentator, former FBI counterintelligence agent, Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and previously an associate dean at Yale Law School. ## Asha Rangappa Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jun 9, 2026 ### [How Trump Keeps Exploiting America’s Legal Loopholes](https://time.com/article/2026/06/09/how-trump-keeps-exploiting-america-s-legal-loopholes/) President Donald Trump continues to outfox constitutional cognoscenti by finding conniving cracks in... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 17, 2023 ### [The Discord Leak Has Shown Us How to Fix U.S Intelligence](https://time.com/6272509/discord-leak-fix-military-intelligence-system/) The Jack Teixeira alleged leak case reveals the flaws of the U.S. intelligence system [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 3, 2019 ### [What Happens Next with the Mueller Report? The Answer May Lie in the Footnotes](https://time.com/5581311/mueller-report-trump-steele-dossier-footnotes/) "The devil is truly in the details," writes former FBI agent Asha Rangappa [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/asha-rangappa/","name":"Asha Rangappa"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/asha-rangappa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/asha-rangappa/"},"name":"Asha Rangappa","jobTitle":"","description":"Asha Rangappa is a lawyer and legal commentator, former FBI counterintelligence agent, Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and previously an associate dean at Yale Law School.","url":"https://time.com/author/asha-rangappa/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```