-
We’ve got a short one this week, but also we didn’t plan or prep much, so we have that going for us!
-
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), announced on Twitter that he and Michael Duffy, an OMB political appointee, are refusing to be deposed by House committee...
-
The D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments on December 11 in Ali v. Trump. Abdul Razak Ali, who has been detained at Guantanamo for over 17 years, had petitioned for an initial en banc hearing before the ...
-
Amb. William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on Tuesday in a close-door meeting with Congressional committees involved in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Tuesday afternoon...
-
Today, we released the eighth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which tells the story Robert S. Mueller lays out in his famous 448-page document. This episode begins our cover...
-
During closed-door testimony to Congress yesterday, William B. Taylor Jr., the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, detailed President Trump’s personal role in an effort to withhold security aid to Ukraine unti...
-
Last month, the military commission for the matter of United States v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad et al. (i.e., the 9/11 trial) held a marathon three weeks of nearly back-to-back hearings. After being held u...
-
On Oct. 23, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will host a hearing titled, "The Betrayal of Our Syrian Kurdish Partners: How Will American Foreign Policy and Leadership Recover?" The committee will hea...
-
Child exploitation images are a horrific problem. Even the most clinical descriptions (such as the 23 sites described in the Freedom Hosting NIT warrant application) turn the stomach and chill the soul. ...
-
Editor’s Note: This article is available in audio format on the Lawfare Podcast Shorts:
-
Afghan intelligence officials reportedly captured a deputy leader of the Islamic State-Khorasan (the Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan, also referred to as ISK) near the city of Herat in September...
-
Amb. William B. Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on Tuesday before three House committees conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Trump's efforts to have the government of Ukr...
-
I. Embrace Reality and Deal With It
-
In conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, President Trump was repeatedly told that Ukraine was a hopelessly corrupt country, according to the Washi...
-
In 2014, the precipitous fall of the ancient city of Mosul signaled the sudden rise to power of the Islamic State, a group that would soon declare a new caliphate from Mosul's Great Mosque. Two years lat...
-
Our interview is with Alex Joel, former Chief of the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Alex is now at the American University l...
-
Today, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on securing America's elections. The committee will hear testimony from Matthew Masterson, a senior cybersecurity adviser at the Department of Ho...
-
During the U.N. General Assembly meeting in mid-September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international body for assessing climate science, released its Special Report on Ocean...
-
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos
-
CNN reports that a convoy has successfully transported American military personnel from Syria into Iraq as part of President Trump’s withdrawal from Syria. The New York Times reports that Trump is now le...
