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Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the following Memorandum Opinion in ACLU v. Mattis that, among other things, denies the Defense Department's motion to d...
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Carrie Cordero examined the developments in President Donald Trump’s relationship with the intelligence community throughout 2017. Benjamin Wittes analyzed Trump’s 2017 performance and his lackluster war...
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As the year is coming to a close, Congress has now missed the deadline for reauthorizing FISA Section 702. Molly Reynolds, a Brookings fellow in Governance Studies and expert on Congress, joined Benjamin...
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There is reason to question the independence of the Polish judiciary; over the past two years, Polish legislature has adopted more than 13 laws that arguably place the courts in the control of the ruling...
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On Dec. 11, the New York City Bar Association hosted a session on “The Global War on Terrorism: Do We Need a New AUMF?” William Castle, deputy general counsel of the Department of Defense, explained why ...
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On Friday, the U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on North Korea designed to significantly cut off fuel supplies and order North Koreans working abroad to return home within two years, the New Y...
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On Dec. 6, following two days of talks in Shanghai, China and Japan reached a tentative agreement on the implementation of a crisis management hotline to avoid sea and air clashes in disputed areas of th...
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I confess that I don't know the answer to this question.
But the grapevine has been buzzing this morning in response to a Christmas letter the CIA director apparently sent to his workforce—a message wh...
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On Dec. 21, the House and Senate voted 238-188 and 66-32, respectively, to pass a concurring resolution extending government funding until Jan. 19, 2018. One provision of that bill extended the FISA Amen...
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North Korea was behind the infamous WannaCry cyberattack, asserted homeland security adviser Thomas P. Bossert in a Dec.
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Robert Mueller gets hold of emails from the presidential transition. The Pentagon has been researching sightings of UFOs. And a U.S. citizen is being held as an enemy combatant in Iraq.
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My hat is off to the Trump administration’s deft diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council.
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Last week, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision concerning one of the most sensitive areas of counterterrorism policy and practice. The decision considered so-called “pressure techniques” the Is...
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On Thursday, The U.N. General Assembly voted 128-9 to condemn President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the New York Times reports. The vote, which included 35 abstentio...
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Attribution of cyber incidents is a reoccurring concern. Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election remains a contentious issue, and on Tuesday, the White House publicly linked North Kore...
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I’ve been trying to figure out why the U.S. government thought it was useful to attribute the “WannaCry” attack to North Korea. WannaCry was a global ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of c...
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On Dec. 11, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia denied a government motion in Doe v. Trump that requested a partial stay of an Oct. 30 injunction that requ...
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As is my annual custom, this song is both thanks to all those who serve our country and a reminder of why they serve—to "secure the blessings of liberty."
My best wishes to all Lawfare readers for a war...
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What the National Security Strategy Means for U.S. Policy in the Middle East
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Last week, a Bangladeshi man set off a pipe bomb in the New York subway in an attempted terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State. C. Christine Fair, a professor in Georgetown University’s Peace and...
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