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One of the obscure federal statutes that has come to prominence in the Trump administration is the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA), a statute designed to increase the president’s flexibility ...
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On Wednesday, British Attorney General Jeremy Wright delivered public remarks titled "Cyber and International Law in the 21st Century.” This unilateral move marks an important step by states in developin...
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Over the last few years, “hybrid warfare” has become firmly established in the Western security lexicon. The concept features prominently in NATO and EU policy instruments and has informed the United Sta...
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Recruiting intelligence sources is hard at the best of times. And President Trump just made it harder.
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Trump Administration Proposes an Unworkable Strategy for Iran
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At a meeting on Monday afternoon, the White House and the Justice Department appeared to avert a conflict connected to the FBI’s use of an informant in the early stages of the Russia investigation, repor...
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This is the second of a two-part series on proxy war. The first essay explained why states might engage in proxy war and the likely costs and problems. This second essay examines the same issues from the...
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District courts in San Francisco and Brooklyn have issued nationwide injunctions barring the Trump administration from rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program , President Obama’s 20...
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Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith and David Kris join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the sequence of events between the Justice Department, the FBI, the House intelligence committee and the White House over the last...
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On May 18, we filed a lawsuit against the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act for the results of the bureau’s most recent “climate survey,” an internal study that the FBI conducts each year.
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On May 21, the White House released the following statement after the president’s meeting with the FBI director, deputy attorney general, and director of national intelligence.
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On May 22, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with senior European law enforcement officials. In the wake of the Cloud Act, enacted by Congress at the end of March, the possibility of an EU-U.S. ag...
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The Justice Department requested that its inspector general investigate whether there were political motivations behind the investigation into the connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, accor...
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It’s hard to keep up with the numerous difficulties that the U.S. government has encountered in its effort to prosecute Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri—alleged, among other things, to be responsible for the Octo...
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When the Supreme Court rejected warrantless cell phone searches incident to arrest in Riley v.
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This is the first of a two-part series on proxy war. This first essay explains why states might engage in proxy war and the likely costs and problems. The second will examine the same issues from the pro...
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Editor’s Note: Tension between the United States and China is rising, and several problems in the region could even lead to war—a frightening risk that deserves serious attention. Oriana Mastro, my colle...
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What happens when the outing of intelligence sources is the province not of rogue insiders but of senior officials in two branches of this country’s government?
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The past week saw the culmination of a major shift in US policy as the United States formally opened its embassy in Jerusalem. Yet ongoing protests along the border with the Gaza Strip and the Israeli go...
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