Nick Weaver wins the prize for rapid response, but a few additional observations might be helpful. First, I echo Nick’s observation that it’s hardly a surprise that the CIA has a bunch of its own hackin...

Yesterday morning, President Trump appears to have been watching Fox & Friends when he saw a troubling statistic: 122 former Guantánamo detainees have re-engaged in terrorism after their release. So the ...

This evening, President Trump nominated Courtney Elwood to be CIA General Counsel and John Sullivan to be DoD General Counsel. These are excellent appointments and good news for the national security la...

With all eyes focused on the new executive order, the Trump Administration may have snuck in the beginnings of another controversial policy shift severely restricting immigration to the United States.

It is now almost Lawfare tradition that when interesting classified technical documents are dumped, I take advantage of my lack of security clearance to do an initial analysis. (I’ll leave for another da...

The Chinese government last week released a new, wide-ranging strategy document (in English and Chinese) for international cooperation on cyberspace issues.

Representative Tom Graves (R-GA) recently released a discussion draft of a bill that would create a defense to liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) (18 USC 1030) f

The United States is Escalating One of Its Wars in Yemen

Last week, Chinese media reported that the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has promulgated a summer fishing moratorium that includes many parts of the South China Sea.

The revised refugee Executive Order (EO) issued today (see revised EO here and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fact sheet here) places the administration in a materially better legal position.

The New York Times is striking a note of befuddled agnosticism as to the tonal difference between the rollout of the original executive order on refugees and visas back in January and that of the revised...

This morning, President Trump signed a new executive order implementing a temporary travel ban from six Muslim majority countries and a temporary suspension of the Refugee Admission Program.

President Trump signed a revised executive order restricting entry into the United States from six majority-Muslim nations this morning. The text of the order is available below and on the White House we...

Yesterday, I wrote about the strategy and tactics for investigating the Trump/Russia connection. As you may imagine, I got a number of responses which are unpublishable in these pages. To my surprise, ...

Three weeks into President Donald Trump’s already-chaotic tenure, the secretary general of Hezbollah appeared to be feeling good. “When a fool lives in the White House, this is the start of an opening fo...