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The Secretary of Defense has released the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review. The full document is below:
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The House intelligence committee majority staff released a memo on alleged intelligence abuses on Friday. The full memo is below.
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Today’s news post is shorter than usual. Our normal coverage will resume on Monday.
The president will not block the publication of a controversial memo alleging intelligence abuses within federal law ...
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Last summer, I wrote about an NBC News/WSJ poll that found barely half of Americans believe that the Russian government attempted to influence the 2016 election.
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On January 17, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the Trump administration’s Syria strategy for the first time at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute. Tillerson’s speech cleared up much of the ...
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The furor over the classified memo prepared by House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes has reached a fever pitch now that the memo has been released. The memo has become a matter of great parti...
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At long last, the memo prepared by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has been #released. Below, we are collecting notable responses to the document, which alleges surveillance abuses by t...
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After more than two weeks of mounting anticipation and hype, the memo on alleged surveillance abuses prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, ha...
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The White House has agreed to some modifications to the Nunes memo at the request of the FBI, and President Trump is expect to authorize the release of the document today or tomorrow, the Washington Post...
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It is very likely that the “Nunes memo” will be made public sometime today despite strong FBI and Justice Department objections that the memo is misleading, threatens sources and methods and politicize...
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You might not have wanted to watch the State of the Union, but don’t miss this episode of the podcast! This week we cover:
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Susan and I are away this week. But Shane, Tamara and Quinta hold down the fort. They discuss major developments in the Russia probe as House Republicans move to declassify a mysterious memo and the FBI’...
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Does law—international jus ad bellum or domestic war powers—substantially influence U.S. threats of force against North Korea? Does law enhance or degrade deterrence of North Korean provocations? Does it...
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In a January 14, 2018, Lawfare article, Alexander Thurston wrote that “mounting evidence pushed me, despite my strong initial skepticism, to acknowledge and begin to analyze the ties and exchanges betwee...
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The House Intelligence Committee has published the transcript of its business meeting discussing the memo alleging surveillance abuses prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. The transcript is availa...
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Author’s Note: After drafting the post below, I belatedly checked Lawfare’s recent posts to ensure I’m not preempted. And there I found this terrific post by my colleague Megan Reiss, covering a great de...
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CIA director Mike Pompeo met with the heads of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service and the FSB—successor to the Soviet KGB—last week to discuss counterterrorism, the Washington Post reports. Current an...
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Since Donald Trump’s election, numerous ethical concerns have been <
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We watched the State of the Union so you don’t have to.
With an eye towards the national security sections of the speech, we’ve selected the parts we think are most relevant to Lawfare readers, organizi...
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On Jan. 29, Benjamin Wittes asked for “actual evidence” that Andrew McCabe “has done something inappropriate.” We’ll know more when the inspector general report becomes public, but I think there are at l...
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