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No, New Xinjiang Legislation Does not Legalize Detention Centers
There has been a rash of reports that recent legislation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Aut -
Rational Security: The 'Nikki, We Hardly Knew Ye' Edition
A prominent journalist and critic of the Saudi regime goes missing in Istanbul. Nikki Haley says she’s resigning as the U.N. ambassador. And tech companies push back against a story about a massive hardw... -
Collusion Is Not a Crime, Trump Campaign Argues
Back in May 2018, a lawyer for the Trump campaign stood before a federal judge and cheerfully hinted at a version of the same argument that Rudy Giuliani had suggested repeatedly to the public: Even if t... -
Document: Chinese Intelligence Officer Indicted and Extradited to U.S. for Spying on Aviation Companies
The Justice Department has unsealed an indictment against Yanjun Xu, a Chinese intelligence officer, on four counts of conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and to steal trade secrets fr... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
South Korea is considering lifting its bilateral trade and exchange embargo on Pyongyang, despite reported U.S. efforts to maintain strong sanctions against North Korea until it begins denuclearizing, sa... -
Document: GAO Report on Defense Department Weapon Systems Cybersecurity
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its report for the Senate Committee on Armed Services examining the Defense Department's weapon systems cybersecurity. GAO investigators "rout... -
Faithful Execution of the Office and Laws: New Research on the Original Meaning of Article II
Writing here at Lawfare in the early days of the Trump administration, Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic zeroed in on a central dilemma of this presidency: What happens when the occupant of the office i... -
Revealing Intelligence on Jamal Khashoggi
Washington Post Global Opinions columnist Jamal Khashoggi has been missing since entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2. -
Counterintelligence Implications of Artificial Intelligence—Part III
This is the third post in my series about the counterintelligence implications of artificial intelligence (AI). The first two are here and here. I’ll start this one with a story. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Ambassador David O'Sullivan on the US-EU Relationship
It's easy to spend all our time focusing on American domestic politics these days, but the rest of the world is not going away. Take the European Union, for example—our neighbors from across the pond, an... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: The California Turing Test
Bloomberg Businessweek’s claim that the Chinese bugged Supermicro motherboards leads off our News Roundup. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has tendered her resignation as of this morning. She is set to vacate her position at the end of 2018, reports the Washington Post.
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