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Editor’s Note: President Trump came into office seemingly determined to improve U.S.-Russia relations, with fighting the Islamic State high on the mutual agenda. Standing in the way of better cooperation...
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On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new executive order on immigration that superseded an order he signed on January 27.
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When WikiLeaks shed light on the CIA’s stockpile of software vulnerabilities last week, it revived—but hardly clarified—the debate on whether the government hoards too many bugs. In principle, the intera...
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Over at Daily Beast I explain why I think White House Counsel Don McGahn should have discovered and fixed Michael Flynn's foreign agent problems long before Flynn became National Security Advisor. The m...
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We have written on this blog about the financial costs of President Trump's plan to build a wall on the southwest border. Cost estimates are somewhere north of $20 billion—and if we are going to spend t...
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This week on the podcast, Jack Goldsmith sat down with former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen to talk about the current state of national security. What should we make of the ...
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President Trump got us started this week by tweeting that former President Barack Obama had ordered a “tapp” of his phones during the presidential election. Benjamin Wittes asked ten questions that were ...
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Yesterday, news broke that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had been paid $530,000 for his work lobbying for a Turkish firm with connections to that country’s government during the presiden...
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Lawfare would like to apologize for the delay in our military commissions coverage this week. As our readers know, we rely on transcripts provided by the Office of Military Commissions to provide our cov...
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The Hoover Institution is looking for its next National Security and Law Associate, the position currently occupied by Jane Chong. The work includes extensive writing and editing for Lawfare. The job ...
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Politico tells us that yesterday, FBI Director James Comey briefed the “Gang of Eight” on Trump’s claims that former President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap against him, including top Republicans an...
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Among the many legal issues raised by the President’s January 27, 2017 executive order (EO) temporarily halting entry into the United States of citizens from seven primarily Muslim countries, including w...
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Last Friday, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services announced that it would be suspending the expedited processing of H-1B visas beginning on April 3rd. Though this news has long been pushed off the front...
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Progress on a Code of Conduct, as China’s Tourism Plans Move Forward
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Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of tapping his phones, and all hell breaks loose. WikiLeaks releases thousands of pages of information on CIA hacking tools. And North Korea launches missiles that may o...
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On Monday, the Israeli Knesset passed an amendment that imposes an entry ban on foreign nationals who have publically called to boycott Israel, or act on behalf of organizations that have done so. This i...
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The United States may deploy up to 1,000 troops to Kuwait as a “reserve” force in the fight against ISIS, Reuters reports. 6,000 U.S. troops are currently deployed in the anti-ISIS effort in Iraq and Syr...
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Matthew Waxman reviews Deborah A. Rosen’s Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015) and Benjamin Allen Coates’s Legalist Empire: International La...
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Documents the FBI creates when it processes a FOIA request can be withheld from future FOIA requests in certain sensitive cases, D.C. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled on Monday.
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While transnational cybercrime has played a part in the U.S-China relationship for some time, the issue assumed a high profile during the September 2015 U.S.-China summit discussions that led to the U.S....