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Document: U.S. Citizen Detained as Enemy Combatant Requests ACLU Representation in Habeas Proceeding
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a brief in D.C. federal district court saying the U.S. citizen that the Defense Department is holding in military detention wants the ACLU to represent... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Donald Trump instructed the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Justice Department’s Russian investigation in March of last... -
Election Hacking, As We Understand It Today, Is Not A Cybersecurity Issue
At a Senate intelligence committee hearing in November on Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S. Elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said about Russian interference in the 2016 election, “What we're talkin... -
3-D Printed Guns May Be Headed to the Supreme Court: An Update
The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider a cert petition in Defense Distributed v. State Department as part of its conference today. A little over a year ago, I wrote a post for Lawfare detailing the c... -
Wassenaar Export Controls on Surveillance Tools: New Exemptions for Vulnerability Research
The United States successfully negotiated research-use exceptions to export controls on surveillance tools at the December 2017 meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement, a club of advanced economies that coo... -
Why Hasn’t Rod Rosenstein Recused Himself From the Mueller Investigation?
One puzzle that deepens with Mike Schmidt’s New York Times story on “Trump’s Struggle to Keep [a] Grip on [the] Russia Investigation” is why Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has not recused himself... -
China’s Endgame: The Path Towards Global Leadership
Dueling high level strategy documents in both the United States and China portend an intensifying competition for leadership and influence at the global systemic level. The coming years are likely to see... -
Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: The New York Times on Obstruction
This evening, the New York Times published a story with new details of significance to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation regarding the President and obstruction of justice. Michael Schmidt r... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States and South Korea have agreed not to hold joint military exercises during the Olympics, the Wall Street Journal informs us. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in c... -
Summary: U.K. Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report
On Dec. 20, the U.K. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee issued its annual report. -
The Spectre of an Advertising Meltdown: What You Need to Know
The information security world is focused on two new security vulnerabilities, “Spectre” and “Meltdown”, that represent vulnerabilities embedded in computer hardware. Lawfare readers should respond in tw... -
Will an Amendment to Israel's National Security Law Change the Rules of the Game?
The constitutional authority over the use of force by the United States has been a subject of ongoing legal and political debates, including on Lawfare. There are disagreements about the proper scope of ...
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