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Back in January, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Mike Doran—a foreign policy and Middle East specialist who served in the George W. Bush White House, State Department, and Pentagon, and is a former Brookin...
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On Oct. 2, Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Bruce Riedel argued that Congress should hold Saudi Arabia accountable by halting arms sales to the ...
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The Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) has ruled on former Military Judge Col. Vance Spath's decision to hold proceedings in the al-Nashiri military commissions case in abatement, reversing the j...
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A Turkish court ordered the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson after two years in Turkish custody, reports the New York Times. Brunson was arrested in 2016 on charges of aiding the failed military...
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It’s a late-night, mid-week episode of the National Security Law Podcast! We’ve got:
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On Sept. 13, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the United Kingdom’s bulk data-collection programs violate human-rights law by failing to incorporate adequate privacy safeguards and ove...
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In the wake of Russia’s interference in U.S. elections, questions persist as to whether Russia changed vote totals and changed the outcome of the election.
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A recurring question in law-of-digital-evidence investigations is how the Fifth Amendment applies to acts of compelled decryption. In these cases, the government gets an order directing a person to enter...
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U.S. intercepts of Saudi officials show that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered senior Saudi officials to lure journalist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia to be detained, according to the Washi...
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Talk of constitutional hardball is in the air.
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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There has been a rash of reports that recent legislation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Aut
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A prominent journalist and critic of the Saudi regime goes missing in Istanbul. Nikki Haley says she’s resigning as the U.N. ambassador. And tech companies push back against a story about a massive hardw...
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Back in May 2018, a lawyer for the Trump campaign stood before a federal judge and cheerfully hinted at a version of the same argument that Rudy Giuliani had suggested repeatedly to the public: Even if t...
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The Justice Department has unsealed an indictment against Yanjun Xu, a Chinese intelligence officer, on four counts of conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and to steal trade secrets fr...
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South Korea is considering lifting its bilateral trade and exchange embargo on Pyongyang, despite reported U.S. efforts to maintain strong sanctions against North Korea until it begins denuclearizing, sa...
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its report for the Senate Committee on Armed Services examining the Defense Department's weapon systems cybersecurity. GAO investigators "rout...
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Writing here at Lawfare in the early days of the Trump administration, Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic zeroed in on a central dilemma of this presidency: What happens when the occupant of the office i...
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Washington Post Global Opinions columnist Jamal Khashoggi has been missing since entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2.
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This is the third post in my series about the counterintelligence implications of artificial intelligence (AI). The first two are here and here. I’ll start this one with a story.
