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The NSA General Counsel's Proposal for a Moonshot
National Security Agency (NSA) General Counsel Glenn Gerstell presented an interesting and surprising challenge last week, writing in the New York Times that the United States must be ready to face the “... -
Succession Politics and the Renewed Threat of Ethnic Violence in Kenya
Editor’s Note: Kenya’s politics often appear peaceful, but they are punctuated by dangerous periods of intense violence, particularly during election season. For now, Kenya’s main groups are at peace, bu... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Josh Campbell on 'Crossfire Hurricane'
Josh Campbell spent twelve years in the FBI, including work as a supervisory special agent and as special assistant to FBI Director James Comey. He is now a CNN law enforcement analyst and the author of ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes offered some thoughts connecting two of the week’s big stories, the Corey Lewandowski testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and the intelligence official’s whistleblower complaint. -
What the Latest Reports Say About the Whistleblower Complaint
More information is coming out in the media about the whistleblower complaint that Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire blocked the inspector general of the intelligence communit... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Wall Street Journal provides new details about a July call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump allegedly urged the Ukrainians “about eight times” to... -
The Witness and the Whistleblower: Some Thoughts
Corey Lewandowski’s testimony and the mysterious whistleblower complaint both involve allegations of outrageous presidential behavior and feature aggressive efforts by the administration to impede congre... -
The House Judiciary Committee’s FISA Oversight Hearing: An Overview
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Sept. 18 on oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), examining specifically whether to reauthorize four provisions of the act set to exp... -
How Long Will Unbreakable Commercial Encryption Last?
Most people who follow the debate over unbreakable, end-to-end encryption think that it’s more or less over. Silicon Valley has been committed to offering such encryption since at least the Snowden revel... -
New Filings in President Trump’s Lawsuit against Manhattan District Attorney
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York released a series of documents revealing that President Trump is suing both Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and the accounting fi... -
Rules and Norms in the Trump Presidency: The Risks and Rewards of ‘Playing It Straight’ on the Inside
James Comey famously does things his own way, and the Department of Justice inspector general has not approved. Having criticized the former FBI director’s handling of the Clinton email investigation, th... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Washington Post reported Wednesday evening that the intelligence community’s whistleblower complaint involved President Trump making a “promise” to a foreign leader over the phone, according to two f...
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