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Paging Devin Nunes: You'd better get yourself over to the White House to brief the President. Get this: The FBI is engaged in a pattern of incidental collection of information on US persons in the course...
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In the normal course of Lawfare, a civil lawsuit in Kentucky would not seem to implicate national security. But when one of the defendants is the President of the United States, well .... I suppose ever...
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Editor’s Note: The Islamic State has long issued a steady torrent of sophisticated propaganda to demonize its enemies, inspire its followers, and advance its cause in general. How does the Islamic State ...
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With the news that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is seeking immunity for his testimony, it is perhaps worth a few moments reviewing the concept of immunity.
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Lawfare readers are surely aware that on Thursday, the lawyer for former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn went public with a statement seeking immunity from prosecution in exchange for his test...
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Earlier this week, Reuters posted a short report quoting the official spokesman of China’s Ministry of National Defense as saying "there is no such thing as man-made islands” in response to a question ab...
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At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Samuel Tadros of the Hudson Institute and the Hoover Institution sat down with Graeme Wood to discuss his new book, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islami...
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Lawfare will be breaking with tradition by not posting an April Fool’s Day joke this year. We just couldn’t come up with anything so silly and clearly factually inaccurate that there was no chance anyone...
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The saga of the Russian connection continued this week. Quinta Jurecic posted video of the joint statement by the SSCI’s Chairman Sen. Richard Burr and ranking member Sen. Mark Warner, in which they pled...
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The Wall Street Journal reports that former national security adviser Michael Flynn told the FBI and the House and Senate investigators who are examining the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia that he is wi...
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This is the final installment in a three-part series on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s cyber-related decisions from the Tenth Circuit.
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Don't look now but the long dormant world of Guantanamo habeas litigation is getting at least a little bit less sleepy.
Last November, a detainee named Guled Hassan Duran, an alum of the CIA's RDI prog...
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As the U.S. reexamines its trade policy, commentators following U.S.-China affairs have noted an important area that has not received as much attention as the bilateral trade in goods but may one day riv...
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China Proposes Cooperation While Completing Installations on Key Reefs and Islands in the South China Sea
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This is the second part of a three-part series on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s handling of cyber issues. In this collection of cases, Judge Gorsuch identifies the uniqueness of computer searches and the accompan...
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Two White House officials showed House Permanent Select Committee Chairman Devin Nunes intelligence reports indicating incidental collection of information about Trump associates, the New York Times writ...
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On Wednesday, Hawaii U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson converted his March 15, 2017 temporary restraining order enjoining two sections of President Trump's Revised Refugee Executive Order into a prel...
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The Senate Select Intelligence Committee is currently holding an open hearing on "Disinformation: A Primer on Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns." The committee will hear testimony from Euge...
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Alan Z. Rozenshtein, a former contributor to this site who now works at the Department of Justice, is well known to long-time Lawfare readers for his writing on many national security law topics, particu...
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Devin Nunes throws a wrench into the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation. But the Senate investigation hasn’t come off the rails. And should countries declare certain kinds of cyber attac...
