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Microsoft and Google have joined Facebook in revealing that Russia may have purchased ads in an effort to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Reactions to this news have been a mix of bewilde...
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We are no longer used to great Senate speeches. The Greatest Deliberative Body on Earth has long since given up anything a thinking person would confuse with deliberation. The Senate speech, once form of...
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Last week, Lawfare hosted a screening and panel discussion of the new film Icarus at the Brookings Institution. Benjamin Wittes moderated the conversation with director Bryan Fogel, producer Dan Cogan, A...
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The Supreme Court isused a summary disposition in Trump v. Hawaii vacating the Ninth Circuit's ruling and remanding it to that court with instructions to dismiss it as moot. The full order is included be...
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The Trump administration will allow refugee admissions from all countries to resume and will put in place stricter screening measures, the Wall Street Journal reported. The refugee program was put on hol...
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Last Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) amending President George W. Bush’s Executive Order 13223, originally issued on Sept. 14, 2001. In short, the amendment allows military ...
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Last week on our Foreign Policy feed, we noted a significant but overlooked moment during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Wednesday: Attorney General Jeff Sessions could not tell sen...
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Iraq and Kurdistan Broker Oil Deals in Contested Regions
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A review of Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon's, The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas (Prometheus, 2017)
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Our interview is another in our series on Section 702 reform, featuring Mieke Eoyang of the National Security Program at Third Way and Jamil Jaffer of George Mason University and IronNet Security. They ...
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On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported a story of diplomatic intrigue related to China’s efforts to silence the outspoken exiled billionaire Guo Wengui. According to the Journal, in May Chinese offi...
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Below is the newly released draft bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) that Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, reported. The bill would extend t...
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, the AP reported. Tillerson stopped at Bagram Air Force Base during a trip to the Middle East and South Asia. At a press conferen...
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Kaspersky Lab has been under intense fire recently for allegedly using, or allowing Russian government agents to use, its signature anti-virus software to retrieve supposed National Security Agency tools...
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As federal court and national security experts are noting, on Oct. 27, the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in Smith v. Trump (formerly Smith v. Obama). The case challenges the propriety of invoking ...
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Today, a group of former national security officials released a letter to key members of Congress urging the reauthorization of Section 702, which will expire on Dec. 31. The full text of the letter is h...
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Earlier this week, Judge Derrick K. Watson of the U.S. District Court in Hawaii concluded that President Donald Trump’s Sept. 24, 2017 proclamation will likely be found to be illegal. Following the Ninth...
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Vanity Fair recently reported that White House sources believe the president is “unraveling.” As politicos across a widening swath of the ideological spectrum grow concerned with the president’s conduct,...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, October 23 at 3:30 pm: Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization will host Elliott Abrams for a lecture on his new book Rea...
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Earlier this month, George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security hosted its annual conference on the Ethos and Profession of Intelligence, an event that is co-sponsored by the CIA.
