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President-elect Donald Trump has offered key national security positions to conservative hardliners, the Washington Post reports. Trump will nominate Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS) to head the CIA and...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place today, Monday, November 14th. Benjamin Wittes will interview Bill Banks on his new book, Soldiers on t...
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Much was said about the powerful role Vice President-elect Mike Pence could be expected to play in the Trump administration well before he was named to head the transition team.
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Quinta Jurecic compiled Lawfare’s coverage of the 2016 election.
Susan Hennessey made the case for experts to be willing to serve in the Trump administration, despite their moral qualms.
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Monday, November 14th. Benjamin Wittes will interview Bill Banks on his new book, Soldiers on the H...
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Two days ago, Hillary Clinton was formally cleared, again, of the specter of criminal wrongdoing in the FBI’s email investigation. The only cloud left is the one history is deciding whether to permanentl...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, November 7th at 3pm: The Brookings Institution will host an event on Stopping North Korea, Inc.: Sanctions Effectiveness and Unintended ...
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Two weeks ago, Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith sat down with David Priess at the Hoover Institution for a Hoover Book Soiree on Priess’s new book, The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligen...
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Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes offered a guide for those perplexed by FBI Director James Comey’s decision to revisit the investigation of the Clinton emails. They also assessed the role of Attorney G...
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Iraqi troops entered Mosul yesterday for the first time since the Islamic State gained control of the city over two years ago. The New York Times reports on Iraqi special forces’ advance into the Gogjali...
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Jonathan Zittrain, who holds a surfeit of titles at Harvard, is our guest for episode 136. Among other topics, we explore the implications of routine doxing of political adversaries. Along the way I extr...