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It seems likely that the House Intelligence Committee will soon #ReleaseTheMemo. According to press reports, the memo claims that the FISA application to monitor Trump campaign advisor Carter Page includ...
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On Jan. 30, the president signed the following document to revoke an Obama administration order that directed the closure of the detention facilities at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:
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This past week, the military commission in United States v. al-Nashiri reconvened in open session for the first time since November, with open sessions on Jan. 19 and 22.
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Last March, the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, passed an amendment requiring the interior minister to deny entry to Israel to foreign nationals who “knowingly issued a public call to boycott the state of ...
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On Monday, Jan. 29, the House Intelligence Committee convened to vote on whether to release to the public the much-discussed memo on alleged surveillance abuses prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes...
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Barring an intervention from the heavens, the so-called Nunes memo will be #released at some point over the course of the next week, either because President Trump actively chooses to release it or becau...
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In August 2017, the Senate passed the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act 98-2; the House voted 419-3.
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Last week, CIA Director Mike Pompeo visited the American Enterprise Institute to join AEI Resident Fellow Marc Thiessen for a conversation to reflect on his first year running the agency and his vision f...
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Since last week, House Republicans have been pushing for the public release of a classified memo alleging government abuse of surveillance authorities and written by House Permanent Select Committee on I...
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On Monday evening, the House intelligence committee voted along party lines to release Chairman Devin Nunes’s memo on alleged government surveillance abuses and to block the release of Democrats’ rebutta...
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Over the weekend some conservative commentators pushed back on my tweet-claim that President Trump has “threaten[ed] DOJ/FBI over and over in gross violation of independence norms.” The Justice Departmen...
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The Harvard National Security Journal’s fall issue, published earlier this week, has five articles that may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
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U.S. Policy in Syria Vague as Turkish Offensive Continues
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Whether they call it the fitbit or the “Ohsh*t!bit,” governments are learning that the exercise internet of things is giving away their geospatial secrets at a rapid clip. Nick Weaver walks us through wh...
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An expose in Politico by Josh Meyer entitled “The secret backstory of how the Obama administration let Hezbollah off the hook” makes a damning charge: “In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with ...
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News that the FBI’s embattled deputy director, Andrew McCabe, is stepping down broke suddenly today. McCabe has long planned to retire in March, and until recently, FBI Director Chris Wray has protected ...
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Axios has the scoop that the Trump national security team is considering a proposal to nationalize the 5G network buildout.
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The defense of democratic institutions, norms, values and culture does not always involve standing up for people who have acted heroically. Stories feel better, of course, when it does—when honor goes to...
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The fitness app Strava inadvertently exposed the locations of American military bases and personnel through a global “heat map” of user activity, the New York Times reports. Among the exposed locations a...
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Anonymity does not equate to privacy or security! “An interactive map posted on the Internet that shows the whereabouts of people who use fitness devices such as Fitbit also reveals highly sensitive info...
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