Today a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced in both the House and Senate a bill that would formalize the Vulnerability Equities Process (VEP) into law. The proposed legislation, the Protecting our A...

President Trump’s request that James Comey kill the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, which Comey reportedly refused, raises significant questions about Trump’s decision ...

While we are all mesmerized by the presidential crises, a small, but quite significant change occurred in Congress: the Senate Sergeant at Arms approved the use of Signal by Senate staff.

I am amazed. I peruse the front page of Lawfare (and of our friendly competitor Just Security) and the news (to which I have contributed) is all about the drama of the Trump presidency and its seeming i...

PDF version A review of James E. Pfander, Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2017). ***

The news of the last several days may leave any number of factual questions unanswered, but even clearer than before are the sweep and character of the extraordinary difficulties facing this current Admi...

The malignant deviance from normative behavior that is the Trump presidency took a turn for the worse this past week.

After yesterday’s briefing by National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, it is clear that the Washington Post article about President Trump’s disclosure of classified information to Russian officials was a...

Imagine that the Democrats sweep the Republicans out of the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections of 2018. Given President Trump’s current approval ratings, that is a likely prospect unl...

The New York Times is reporting that President Donald Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to drop the FBI’s investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

This morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he had spoken to President Trump regarding James Comey’s replacement for the FBI Director and recommended Merrick Garland. McConnell isn’t t...

Press reports that President Trump may have revealed sensitive counterterrorism information originating from the Israeli government to Russian officials are potentially disastrous for U.S. counterterrori...

Yesterday, citing unnamed officials, the Washington Post broke the news that President Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.

Yesterday I was interviewed by NPR about the Shadow Brokers and their relationship to WannaCry. Overall I think it went well, especially since NPR is very comfortable with answers that start with “we don...

Russian-backed De-escalation Zones Implemented in Syria

We’re rounding up key public statements addressing President Trump’s disclosures of classified information to with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S.

In arguments before the Fourth Circuit last week and the Ninth Circuit yesterday, a new phase of the litigation opened up on President Trump's travel ban. The government’s arguments have become sharper, ...

The Ninth Circuit’s argument yesterday on President Trump’s revised Refugee EO in Hawaii v. Trump took a novel turn: Judges Gould, Hawkins, and Paez focused on what the Immigration and Nationality Act (I...