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Although the White House is now disavowing the draft executive order on detention and interrogation, the document has revived debate on the legal prohibitions against torture and on President Trump’s
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Author's Note: I wrote the following in the belief that the draft executive order published yesterday by the Washington Post and analyzed yesterday by the Times and the Post was either the final text or ...
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Darren E. Tromblay has served the U.S. Intelligence Community, as an Intelligence Analyst, for more than a decade. He is the author of The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise: History, Development, and...
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Let me start with a disclosure: FBI Director James Comey is a personal friend. So feel free to dismiss, if you like, what follows as the rantings of a guy who doesn’t like to see friends put through the ...
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The question is provocative, but the answer is hard. The reaction to WikiLeaks’ publication of the fruits of Russia’s DNC hack raises many puzzles about how we should think about publication of truthful ...
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Intelligence community (IC) personnel agree to a great many restrictions that would be shocking in any other profession. They must obtain permission to travel internationally, submit detailed annual fina...
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Last week, Ben posted an order by Judge Royce Lamberth of the D.C. District Court granting a request by counsel for Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri to have a copy of the Senate Intelligence Committee's interroga...
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The other day, Quinta and I noted that counsel for Abd al Rahim Al-Nashiri had asked the court in his habeas case to have a copy of the Senate Intelligence Committee's interrogation report filed under se...
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As 2016 (finally) comes to an end, we’re looking back on an eventful year. This week, Lawfare will be rounding up coverage of some of our favorite national security topics of the past twelve months. Toda...
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In a recent post here at Lawfare, April Doss argues that the Ninth Circuit’s decision in United States v.
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Last week, co-authors Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, and I released a Center for a New American Security report on the future of surveillance policy. The full report is available here; video of the...
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The House Intelligence Committee has made public its full 36-page report on Edward Snowden, which was previously classified. The Committee approved the report in September and previously released an unc...