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Video: Confirmation Hearing for Rod Rosenstein and Rachel Brand as Deputy and Associate AG
This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing for Rod Rosenstein, President Trump's nominee for Deputy Attorney General, and Rachel Brand, President Trump's nominee as Associate Attor... -
Trump’s Revised Refugee and Visa Order: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
The New York Times is striking a note of befuddled agnosticism as to the tonal difference between the rollout of the original executive order on refugees and visas back in January and that of the revised... -
Eight Buckets of Cold Water for the Trump Wiretap Story
As with all things Trump, the media is so eager to trash the President that it has turned a serious story into a partisan melee. What both sides need are a few buckets of cold water. Here are eight. 1. ... -
Should the Acting Attorney General Provide FISA Court Orders to White House Counsel?
In his perplexing tweetstorm yesterday, possibly prompted by nothing more than some blend of Mark Levin and Breitbart, President Trump accused former President Obama of wiretapping him in Trump Tower bef... -
Strategy and Tactics for Investigating the Russian Connection
In an earlier life (before I started focussing on cyber issues) I was, for the first 15 years of my career, a specialist in complex criminal, and political investigations, having worked at DOJ (on the Ex... -
Ten More Questions for President Trump
Yesterday, I posed ten questions for President Trump in response to his bizarre Twitter temper tantrum accusing his predecessor of wiretapping Trump Tower in the days before the election. -
Ten Questions for President Trump
This morning, the country awoke to a bizarre tweetstorm from the President of the United States, about which I have ten questions. First off, here's what Trump tweeted: Donald Trump's Morning Tweet Sto... -
Intelligence Officers Won’t Exit En Masse During the Trump Administration
Former intelligence analyst Edward Price dramatically resigned from CIA last week in an op-ed in the Washington Post—complete with a video critique that has gone viral on social media. Is Mr. Price’s dep... -
What Happens When We Don’t Believe the President’s Oath?
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America’s Counterterrorism Partners as a Check on Trump
President Trump has begun to shift U.S. counterterrorism policies toward an extreme paradigm that departs from both liberal and conservative orthodoxy. In his first weeks in office, Trump recast the enem... -
National Security-Relevant Portions of Trump's Address to Joint Session of Congress
This evening, President Donald Trump is delivering his first address before Congress. Below, we have aggregated the portions of his prepared remarks that are relevant to Lawfare readers. We will update t... -
An Unconventional Test Case for Civilian Control of the Military
President Trump’s appointment of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to succeed Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor has generally been lauded, whether in recognition of McMaster’s strengths, his predecessor’s ...
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