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On Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller made an unexpected statement on the Russia investigation. He reiterated his findings and analysis, resigned from the Justice Department and formally closed th...
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President Trump’s delegation of a narrowly defined declassification authority to Attorney General Bill Barr has attracted criticism, notably on this site by my colleagues David Kris and Benjamin Wittes. ...
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The U.S. intelligence community is, by design, shrouded in secret, but it is ultimately responsible to the public. So how do intelligence agencies balance competing interests in protecting privacy and ci...
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President Trump announced that the United States will impose a 5 percent tariff on goods from Mexico to pressure the government to limit the flow of illegal migrants crossing the border, reports CNN. The...
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This post originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
As the third anniversary of the Brexit referendum approaches, the United Kingdom has failed three times to gain parliamentary approval of a withdrawal ...
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On the night of May 29, the Israeli Knesset voted to approve a law dissolving the 21st Knesset. The country just held a general election in early April—but under the law, Israelis will now go to the poll...
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Reactions to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s public appearance on Wednesday morning came swiftly, arriving on cable TV panels and social media platforms even before he finished his brief stateme...
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President Trump tweeted about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s statement on Wednesday, apparently stating for the first time that Russia helped him win the 2016 election without his own involvement, thou...
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These days, many people see technology companies as indifferent to law, or at least interested in remaining under-regulated. When Mark Zuckerberg called on Congress to regulate how social media companies...
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In a final episode before taking a one-week travel break, we discuss and debate an array of recent developments innational security law, including:
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Last fall, Lawfare published a piece by Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson of GCHQ entitled Principles for a More Informed Exceptional Access Debate.
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In the summer of 2016, a meme began to circulate on the fringes of the right-wing internet: the notion that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was seriously ill. Clinton suffered from Parkinson’s dis...
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a statement on the investigation he led into Russian interference in the 2016 election, in which he reiterated his investigative findings and analysis, resigned f...
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How to think about a post-Mueller oversight strategy for Congress
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Susan Hennessey hosts Quinta Jurecic, David Kris, Paul Rosenzweig and Benjamin Wittes to discuss (now former) Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Wednesday press conference and what comes next.
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On Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a statement about the Russia investigation. The statement, as prepared for delivery, is available below.
Two years ago, the Acting Attorney Genera...
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller will deliver a statement at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday on the investigation he led into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. A livestream is available below, via th...
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Asylum seekers who have passed their credible fear interviews—those whom immigration officers find have viable asylum claims—may no longer have access to an important protection against prolonged impriso...
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Paul Rosenzweig leads off with an enduring and fecund feature in Washington these days: China Tech Fear.
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President Trump said the United States is not seeking regime change in Iran in a press conference on Monday, notes the Washington Post. Analysts saw the president’s comments as an attempt to reduce tensi...
