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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions for several hours last week, the New York Times reports. Sessions appears to be the first member of President Trump’s cabin...
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Turkey Launches Military Operation against U.S.-backed Forces in Syria
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In this guestless episode, Michael Vatis, Markham Erickson, and Nick Weaver join me to round up the news. I explore the final results of the intense jockeying that led to passage of S. 139, which gave Se...
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The Trump administration is trying to turn counterterrorism into an immigration issue.
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In a prior post, I surveyed the affirmative reasons why a judge might prohibit a transfer of John Doe to Saudi or Iraqi custody. I discussed several possible arguments Doe might make, such as fear of tor...
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Jonathan Swan of Axios reported Monday night, based on “three sources with direct knowledge,” that FBI Director Chris Wray “threatened to resign” if FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “was removed” from o...
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The National Security Agency destroyed surveillance data it promised to preserve, and failed to protect the data as it told a federal court it had, Politico reports. According to recent court filings, th...
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On Jan. 11, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that two vessels, a Chinese 4,000-ton Jiangkai-II class frigate and a submarine of unknown origins, were sighted near the territorial waters surrou...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, Jan. 23 at 3:00 pm: The Center for Strategic and International Studies will host an event on the future of U.S.-Pakistan relations. Amb....
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On Jan. 12, 2018, the Trump administration put in place sanctions against Sadegh Amoli Larijani, the head of the Iranian judiciary, and others in response to Iranian human rights abuses.
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Multiple news organizations have reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “team could interview Trump soon on some limited portion of questions—possibly
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The federal government is shutting down, which may have those closely following L’Affair Russe wondering if the Special Counsel investigation into 2016 Russian election meddling will be interrupted. As t...
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The front page of all of the major papers today is focussed on the shutdown showdown in Washington. Is it a #Trumpocalypse or a #SchumerShutdown?
Meanwhile the damage of a Trump presidency is magnified ...
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Editor’s Note: The call to take down terrorist-linked content on the Internet is both sensible and limited in its effectiveness. Terrorists use many different aspects of the Internet for many different p...
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This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent Shaun Walker joined special guest host Alina Polyakova to discuss his new book "The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts ...
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Forget the Steele dossier. There’s a hot new sub rosa document in Washington: a classified four-page memo prepared by House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes on alleged government abuses of sur...
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On Thursday, the Senate passed the bill reauthorizing the FISA Section 702 surveillance program for another six years. Emma Kohse summarized the bill. Susan Hennessey and Jack Goldsmith argued that even ...
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The Supreme Court has just granted certiorari in Hawaii’s challenge to the September 2017 iteration of President Trump’s travel ban (EO-3).
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Earlier this week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a joint report, Executive Order 13780: Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the ...
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Below is the declassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy: