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The Supreme Court announced this morning that it will grant the Department of Justice’s petition for a writ of certiorari in its dispute with Microsoft over access to emails stored on the company’s Irish...
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Sometimes we are reminded that the "noise" of policy drowns out important practical news. Today is one of those days. While we sit around worrying about Harvey Weinstein and Trump's latest tweet, it tu...
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Iraqi forces seized key positions in the disputed city of Kirkuk, pushing out Kurdish forces, Reuters reported. The U.S.-trained counterterrorism force took up positions outside the provincial government...
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Last week on our Foreign Policy feed, we wrote about how the USA Liberty Act, which is the House Judiciary Committee's proposal to reauthorize the Section 702 surveillance program, takes for granted that...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time since his confirmation hearing in January. To say his tenure since taking office has been...
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This essay draws on a longer piece on the same subject that the author wrote for Foreign Affairs. A second essay with Lawfare looks at the implications of using the "T-Word."
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Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor at the military commissions, released the following statement on Saturday on the occasion of this week's military commission hearings in the trial of those a...
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Editor’s Note: The Islamic State is weakened militarily, but many of the ideas it champions remain strong. In addition, the group continues to spread its message both virtually and in face-to-face settin...
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Political Islam has been radically shifting in the past four years since the Egyptian coup and the emergence of ISIS, consequently challenging how we understand Islamist movements and their impact.
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U.S. Conducts Its Fourth FONOP in Five Months, as the U.K. Revises Its Policy on FONOPs in the South China Sea
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President Trump yesterday announced that he will decline to certify to Congress that Iran is in compliance with the JCPOA and that the implementation of the agreement remains in the U.S. interest, as the...
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On Friday, President Trump said he would decertify the Iran deal. Yishai Schwartz outlined how the decades-old American sanctions law framework made Trump’s decision possible. Suzanne Maloney criticized ...
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In July we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis.
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Brig. Gen. John Baker, the chief defense counsel for the military commissions, disbanded the defense team in U.S. v. Nashiri. The full press release is included below.
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President Trump is expected to decertify the Iran nuclear deal in a speech Friday afternoon, but the U.S. will not attempt to withdraw from the agreement, the New York Times reported. Trump’s move will l...
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On Lawfare's feed at Foreign Policy, I write about how the United States' tit-for-tat diplomatic escalation with Moscow likely backfired. The piece begins:
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Last week, members of the the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) introduced the “Uniting and Strengthening American Liberty Act of 2017,” known as the “USA Liberty Act.” A discussion draft of the bill had b...
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While the president’s reported plans regarding the JCPOA have rightly garnered a great deal of attention, another sanctions-related deadline came and went with little fanfare.
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President Trump is expected to announce that he will not certify the Iran deal in a speech on Friday, October 13.
