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President Trump has one of the most tumultuous, and possible disastrous, weeks of his presidency. The president then lashes out at his political enemies in unprecedented ways. And the Justice Department ...
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The joint House and Senate conference committee for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2019 has agreed upon and released a reconciled version of the bill. Both the reconciled statutory tex...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will testify before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to provide "An Update on American Diplomacy to Advance our National Security Strategy."
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Two American citizens were transferred from Syria to the United States to face trial in U.S. federal courts, according to the Washington Post. Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli is charged with providing and attempt...
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President Trump threatened to impose tariffs against all Chinese imports to the United States in an interview with CNBC last Friday, stoking fears of an all out trade war between the two countries.
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Writing for the majority in Carpenter v. United States, Chief Justice John Roberts called the court’s momentous Fourth Amendment decision “a narrow one.” The specific holding—that a warrant is required f...
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A recent series of statements by President Donald Trump has resurrected concerns about the United States’ long-standing commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Ahead of the recent NATO summ...
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In considering Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, there are many important unknowns, including how he would treat court precedents regarding such hot topics as same-sex marriage and aborti...
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Professor Jennifer Daskal and Will Carter of the Center for Strategic and International Studies have written a terrific report, “Low-
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Justice Kennedy's resignation and the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his replacement promises to usher in a new era of the U.S. Supreme Court, not least in the areas of foreign relations and nati...
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In our 227th episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker interviews Bobby Chesney (@BobbyChesney), who recently co-authored a paper with Danielle Citron (@DanielleCitron) titled, “Deep Fakes: A Loomin...
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According to satellite imagery, North Korea appears to be dismantling a key missile launch site, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Sohae Satellite Launching Station has served as Pyongyang’s primary l...
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The 26th biennial Rim of the Pacific naval military exercises, the largest international maritime exercises in the world, kicked off in and around Hawaii on June 27 with one participant notably absent. T...
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Yesterday, Bradley Moss penned an excellent explainer of how the security process works and how revocation of security clearances are handled. In particular he explained how one Supreme Court case, Depa...
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Reports that a group of House conservatives—led by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus—are advocating the impeachment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have been ...
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When Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence agents on the eve of the Helsinki summit, former attorney general Michael Mukasey smelled a rat. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, M...
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Hostile Rhetoric Escalates Between Trump Administration and Iran
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Quiet since September 2016, the military commission for Majid Shoukat Khan, a low-level al-Qaeda operative who pled guilty to all charges filed against him in 2012 and is cooperating with the government,...
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Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, July 25), from 8-10 am, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse -- along with DOJ’s former Assistant Attorney General for National Security, David Kris and DOJ’s former Principal Attorney...
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If one defines technology as anything that extends human capability, it takes only a short logical leap to conclude that nearly any advantage in technological capability over a competitor entails potenti...
