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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” the president tweeted to explain his su...
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On Thursday, the Justice Department announced charges against two Chinese nationals it alleges are connected with the China-based hacking group known by the government as Advanced Persistent Threat 10 (A...
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Dec. 20 that nominee for attorney general William Barr sent a memo to the Justice Department earlier this year expressing his view on the special counsel's investigati...
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On Tuesday, Dec. 19, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction against the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule precluding asylum gra...
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The future of Brexit is...anyone’s guess. A sealed subpoena and a courtroom smackdown: The latest on L’Affaire Russe. And the U.S. announces it’s withdrawing troops from Syria.
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Deep-dive alert!
That’s right, we are closing out 2018 with a deep-dive episode on the State Secrets Privilege. From Totten to Reynolds and on to the present day, you’ll want to tune in for this hour-lo...
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President Trump has ordered the total withdrawal of U.S. ground forces from Syria, to be completed within 30 days, the New York Times reports. Some Pentagon officials reportedly oppose the move, arguing ...
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Lately, Huawei has been a recurrent flashpoint in U.S.-China relations. The arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer and daughter of its founder, Ren Zhengfei, over allegations ...
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Pakistan confronts a new type of extremist threat: one that challenges state institutions without rejecting the state itself.
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Neither Michael Flynn nor Special Counsel Robert Mueller can be happy with the judge’s performance at yesterday’s sentencing hearing—and the public shouldn’t be either.
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Earlier this evening, Dec. 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit released a judgment in In re Grand Jury Subpoena, a mysterious case that has drawn attention for its suspected connection to ...
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David Priess is man of many national security hats. Long before becoming Lawfare's head of operations, Priess was an intelligence officer, manager, and briefer with the CIA, including some time spent as ...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has issued a judgment in a sealed case regarding a grand jury matter, which reporting from Politico suggests is likely linked to the Mueller investigation. ...
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On December 17th, Alan Cohn hosted the 244th episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast. We took a deep dive into all things blockchain and cryptocurrency, discussing recent regulatory developments and projections ...
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Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia delayed sentencing former national security adviser Michael Flynn until the end of his cooperation with ongoing federal invest...
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Ceasefire Enters Force in Hodeidah after Productive Peace Talks
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Last month, more than 50 countries and over 200 major corporations and organizations came together to agree that the international nature of cyber threats needs a cooperative global response and a common...
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At the request of Judge Emmet Sullivan, the Special Counsel's Office has filed a redacted version of the report—known as an FD-302 or simply 302—produced by FBI agents following their January 2017 interv...
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Two former business associates of Michael Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, have been indicted on charges connected with their efforts to lobby the U.S.
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Longtime Lawfare readers may be familiar with the work we have published on “sextortion”—a form of remote sexual violence that usually involves a perpetrator obtaining explicit images or video of a victi...
