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Yesterday, President Donald Trump took the first step toward constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The executive order that he signed (one of two from yesterday), ordered the federal governme...
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President Trump has announced executive orders on border security and immigration policy—and maybe interrogation. Former military officers are taking senior posts in the National Security Council. And in...
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Cybersecurity is the national security issue that will likely dominate the first one hundred days of the Trump administration. After his briefing with the intelligence community on Russia’s role in the e...
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The end of an administration and the beginning of a new one, like the turn of a year, is a good time to review one’s own analytic record. Doing so is a way of keeping oneself honest and humble, and thus ...
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The world probably does not need another podcast, but it’s getting one anyway… As many of you already know, my friend Steve Vladeck joined me on the faculty at UT-Austin this past fall. We’re coteaching ...
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Two executive orders released today dealt with the new administration’s immigration policy. One, summarized here, focuses on immigration enforcement in the context of border security.
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This afternoon, the Trump administration released the text of a new executive order concerning “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements.” The stated purpose of the order is to improve na...
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President Donald Trump delivered remarks to employees of the Department of Homeland Security earlier today. Video of his speech is available below from the White House YouTube channel. (The speech begin...
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President Donald Trump is set to announce a series of executive orders on national security-related issues today including immigration, detention and interrogation, and designation of the Muslim Brotherh...
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Author's Note: I wrote the following in the belief that the draft executive order published yesterday by the Washington Post and analyzed yesterday by the Times and the Post was either the final text or ...
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The news today is shocking. Russian authorities have arrested a top Kaspersky cybersecurity manager for espionage.
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Darren E. Tromblay has served the U.S. Intelligence Community, as an Intelligence Analyst, for more than a decade. He is the author of The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise: History, Development, and...
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On Sunday night, the Wall Street Journal broke a story that U.S. counterintelligence officials “had investigated” the communications of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as part of a counterintelli...
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For President Trump, negative news coverage must be the handiwork of partisan enemies.
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The New York Times writes that President Trump has requested that FBI Director James Comey stay on in his position as chief law enforcement officer. Firing Comey, while floated by Trump’s team and within...
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Russia’s Syria Pivot Continues at Astana Peace Talks
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Our guest interview is with Jack Goldsmith, Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard and co-founder of Lawfare. We explore his contrarian view of how to deal with Russian hacking, which leads to me praising...
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Yesterday, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor General Mark Martins released the following statement regarding pretrial hearings to be conducted over the next two weeks in the 9/11 case. The statement...
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Affirming a lower court decision, the UK Supreme Court has held that, despite the referendum in June 2016 calling for withdrawal from the European Union, Britain cannot withdraw from the Union without pa...
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As Benjamin Wittes and I noted a few weeks ago, these past few weeks have produced some interesting litigation activity regarding the Senate Intelligence Committee’s interrogation report. In the last day...
