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The following is an independent assessment by British barrister David Anderson of nine internal reviews of British intelligence in connection with four terrorist attacks in the spring and summer of 2017.
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6,700 Rohingya died—including 730 children under the age of 5— in the first month of the Myanmar government’s crackdown on the Muslim ethnic minority group, according to the New York Times.
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In this episode, I interview Elsa Kania, author of a Center for a New American Security report on China’s plan for military uses of artificial intelligence—a plan that seems to have been accelerated by t...
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The Microsoft warrant case in the Supreme Court involves a demand by the U.S. government that Microsoft repatriate content data stored in a data center in Ireland and provide it to DOJ. The case raises a...
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Last week, the military commission in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al., which relates to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, convened for the first time in several weeks for hearings and testimony ...
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I have not watched all of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. But I watched three hours of it, and that was quite enough to convey the distu...
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Earlier this week, I wrote in Slate about how America’s military leaders have seemingly improvised a new norm of civil-military relations in response to President Donald Trump. The latest proving ground ...
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. was ready to talk to North Korea without any preconditions, CNN reported. The White House said the U.S. stance on the matter had not changed, but analysts s...
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on "Using Force: Strategic, Political, and Legal Considerations." The committee will hear testimony from the fol...
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is testifying Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. before the House Judiciary Committee on Justice Department oversight. Watch the live stream below.
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On Nov. 21, the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council voted to fill the last vacant seat on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), electing India’s Dalveer Bhandari to the role. As far as U.N. el...
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While one might read Mike Flynn’s dealing with a variety of unsavory foreign interests as greed unmoored from principle, it’s important to step back and understand what the implications were of his advoc...
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Memo to the President: Your attacks on the FBI aren’t working.
President Trump has apparently decided that attacking federal law enforcement is a good defense strategy in L’Affaire Russe. Conservative m...
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Saria Samakie has a story unlike those of most of his peers at Georgetown. After being kidnapped three times in Syria, Samakie managed to flee the war-ravaged country and eventually arrived in the United...
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The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday's attempted suicide attack in New York, on five counts. They are:
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In this week’s episode, Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney pick up the thread on a handful of familiar issues and introduce a few new ones as well.
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President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. Read the conference report here and Lawfare's previous coverage highlighting parts of the bill here. The pre...
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The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York brought five federal terrorism charges against Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday’s attempted suicide bombing in New York. The charges ar...
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In the first part of this series, I concluded that the “president cannot obstruct justice when he exercises his lawful authority that is vested by Article II of the Constitution.” For purposes of either ...
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The substance and tone of the Dec. 8 Fourth Circuit en banc argument in International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) v. Trump differed substantially from the Dec. 6 Ninth Circuit argument in Hawaii’s ...
