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Documents: Statement of Offense and Plea Agreement for James Wolfe
In June, a grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted former Senate intelligence committee security director James Wolfe on three counts of making false statements to federal investigators. On Monda... -
Summary: Justice Department Policy on ‘Disclosure of Foreign Influence Operations’
On Sept. 25, the Justice Department announced a new policy on “Disclosure of Foreign Influence Operations” as part of an update of the U.S. -
At Oral Argument, Supreme Court Weighs Immigrant Detention
Mandatory immigration detention is an exception to the rule that confinement requires an individualized showing of flight risk or dangerousness. In 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit n... -
Abatement in Al-Nashiri is Reversed
On Friday, the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) reversed the abatement in United States v. Al-Nashiri, and ordered that proceedings resume. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Trump has signed a bill that creates a new foreign aid agency, the United States International Development Finance Corporation, and has given it the authority to disburse $60 billion in loans, ... -
What International Law Tells Us About the Khashoggi Investigation
Almost two weeks have passed since prominent Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared into Saudi Arabia’s consulate building in Istanbul, Turkey. While Saudi officials claim that he lef... -
Who Broke Periodic Review at Guantanamo Bay?
The Periodic Review Board (PRB) appears to be broken. Since President Trump’s inauguration 21 months ago, the PRB—often described as a parole-like body established to determine whether an individual may ... -
Jaworski Road Map to be Mostly Unsealed
One month ago, the three of us filed a petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for the release of the so-called “Watergate Road Map”—one of the last great still-secret Watergate ... -
The Week That Will Be
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Germany’s Strategic Repositioning
Editor’s Note: For many years, Germany and the United States cooperated to advance mutual foreign policy goals while Germany embedded itself in the European Union. This mutually beneficial arrangement is... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Through the Looking Glass with Mike Doran, An Update
Back in January, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Mike Doran—a foreign policy and Middle East specialist who served in the George W. Bush White House, State Department, and Pentagon, and is a former Brookin... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Oct. 2, Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Bruce Riedel argued that Congress should hold Saudi Arabia accountable by halting arms sales to the ...
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