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National Security Agency General Counsel Glenn S. Gerstell made the following keynote address on Nov. 1 at the American Bar Association's Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference. (...
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On Monday, the Congressional Research Service published the following report on the 25th Amendment and the many controversies around its treatment of presidential disability.
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This morning, the second round of punitive U.S. sanctions on Iran went into effect. Multiple European countries, including the UK, France and Germany, are planning to work around these sanctions by way o...
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Before Donald Trump secured the Republican Party nomination in the summer of 2016, Lawfare and others hosted articles expressing concern about the potential impact of a Trump presidency on national-secur...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 12 p.m.: The Atlantic Council will host a discussion on the second round of U.S. sanctions on Iran. The Atlantic Council...
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Whichever party triumphs in the Nov. 6 midterm elections, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will have some new members when the 116th Congress convenes in January 2019. And according t...
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Editor’s Note: We know artificial intelligence will change the very nature of war—but we don't know how. The United States, China, and other powers recognize this transformative potential and, even as th...
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Today is the anniversary of, by some measures, the U.S. military’s worst battlefield defeat ever. On Nov. 4, 1791, U.S. military forces, under the command of Northwest Territory Governor and U.S. General...
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In the wake of the shooting in Pittsburgh at the Treet of Life synagogue, Quinta Jurecic explored the role of social media in providing a platform in far-right extremism.
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The rate and intensity of cyber attacks on financial institutions has increased in recent years, but the risk that these attacks pose to our financial stability remains understudied in the financial indu...
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The Commerce Department has put Chinese semiconductor company Fujian Jinghua on a list of companies that are no longer allowed to purchase some U.S. exports of components, software and technology goods, ...
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In this week’s episode we take a break from our deep-dive series on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in order to reengage with the weekly inflow of national security law news. We had no choice,...
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On Oct. 15, J.M. Berger, a prolific author and researcher on extremism, made public on Intelwire a large number of previously unreleased or difficult-to-find materials related to 9/11 that were obtained ...
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The third criminal trial of Blackwater guard Nicholas Slatten for his role in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre begins Monday, Nov. 5, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia before Judge R...
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Inquiring minds want to know.
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Late on Friday, we received the first set of responsive documents to our “meta-FOIA request” regarding the release of congressional candidate—and former postal inspector and CIA officer—Abigail Spanberge...
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A grand jury in the Northern District of California has returned an indictment against United Microelectronics Corp., a Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer; Fujian Jinhua, a Chinese state-run enterprise...
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According to the Washington Post, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had a phone call with Jared Kushner and national security advisor John Bolton in which he described journalist Jamal Khashoggi as ...
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On Oct. 31, a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania returned a 44-count indictment, including hate crimes, against Robert Bowers for the murder of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in ...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
In 1846, Tunisia became both the first Arab and the first Muslim country to abolish slavery. Now, it has become one of the first to c...
