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The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at Washington University in St. Louis in a town-hall conversation moderated by Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper. Thoug...
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I hate to say "I told you so," but gosh, I told you so.
A few months ago, during Trump's ascendancy in the GOP primaries, I wrote a piece about his likely impact on and abuse of the powers of the U.S. D...
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A week ago, Ben posed the following question about what might be termed the national security gap:
How have we come to a place where at least partly in the name of national security, a huge swath of th...
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I've gotten a few questions the last couple of days about why Lawfare has had nothing to say about that big story Reuters ran the other day on Yahoo, the intelligence community, and the scanning of all t...
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It is now clear to effectively everybody except those blindly following Donald Trump that the Russians are actively tampering with the U.S. election. It may have started largely by accident, when the tra...
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Vice Presidential candidates Senator Tim Kaine and Governor Mike Pence faced off at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia last night in the only debate between the running mates. The debate was a fa...
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Tonight, Longwood University will host the first and only debate between Vice Presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence.
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Among the many novel features of the 2016 presidential election campaign is the increasingly visible participation of former military officers in the political process. Below is a brief primer on the leg...
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To my knowledge, the first explicit argument—at least by a prominent member of the national security community—that the man who would become the Republican standard bearer for President in 2016 poses a t...
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The much-anticipated debut debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took place on Monday night at Hofstra University. In a conversation moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt, the candidates began by disc...
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The first of the presidential debates takes place tomorrow evening.
Last week, I found myself in Las Vegas, giving a pair of addresses on the election, national security, and the challenge of Donald Tru...
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democratic members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, have released the following statement on Russian att...