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Trump’s Plan B for Iran: All Sanctions, No Friends
Trump Administration Proposes an Unworkable Strategy for Iran -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
At a meeting on Monday afternoon, the White House and the Justice Department appeared to avert a conflict connected to the FBI’s use of an informant in the early stages of the Russia investigation, repor... -
Why Be a Pawn to a State? Proxy Wars From a Proxy’s Perspective
This is the second of a two-part series on proxy war. The first essay explained why states might engage in proxy war and the likely costs and problems. This second essay examines the same issues from the... -
Dueling Cosmic Injunctions, DACA and Departmentalism
District courts in San Francisco and Brooklyn have issued nationwide injunctions barring the Trump administration from rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program , President Obama’s 20... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Special Edition: Outing a Confidential Informant
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith and David Kris join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the sequence of events between the Justice Department, the FBI, the House intelligence committee and the White House over the last... -
Climate Change at the FBI: Why We Sued the Bureau Last Week
On May 18, we filed a lawsuit against the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act for the results of the bureau’s most recent “climate survey,” an internal study that the FBI conducts each year. -
Document: White House Statement on Wray, Rosenstein, Coats Meeting About FBI Informant
On May 21, the White House released the following statement after the president’s meeting with the FBI director, deputy attorney general, and director of national intelligence. -
Video: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Corker-Kaine AUMF Bill
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A Possible EU-US Agreement on Law Enforcement Access to Data?
On May 22, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with senior European law enforcement officials. In the wake of the Cloud Act, enacted by Congress at the end of March, the possibility of an EU-U.S. ag... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Justice Department requested that its inspector general investigate whether there were political motivations behind the investigation into the connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, accor... -
Why Aren’t the Military Commissions Working? Look No Further Than Al-Nashiri
It’s hard to keep up with the numerous difficulties that the U.S. government has encountered in its effort to prosecute Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri—alleged, among other things, to be responsible for the Octo... -
Summary: Fourth Circuit Rejects Suspicionless, Forensic Searches of Devices at the Border in United States v. Kolsuz
When the Supreme Court rejected warrantless cell phone searches incident to arrest in Riley v.
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