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What Law Enforcement Really Needs for Investigations in the Digital Age
A recent New York Times article on cyber crime told not the sort of data-breach story with which readers have become familiar but, instead, focused on vast unknowns in the sphere of cyber crime. -
The Week That Will Be
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On the Judicial Resistance
Over the past year, I have discussed at some length the self-professed “legal resistance,” which has coordinated legal strategies to resist President Trump in the courts. This front is part of the broade... -
Anatomy of a Presidential Untruth: What Data Did the Justice Department Really Provide the White House?
On Feb. 10 of last year, a Justice Department lawyer in the department’s National Security Division (NSD) assembled some data on international terrorism convictions for transmission to the White House. T... -
The Other Battle in Iraq
Editor’s Note: The last year saw a rare bit of good news in Iraq, as the government there expelled much of the Islamic State from its territory. However, many problems plague the country. Douglas Ollivan... -
The Lawfare Podcast: David Frum on Threats to Democracy in the Trump Era
In his recent New York Times bestseller “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic,” David Frum, senior editor of The Atlantic, lays out a compelling account of how President Donald Trump’s te... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Let's start with the Nunes memo. Jack Goldsmith discussed the implications of the White House counsel’s cover letter to the release of the Nunes memo. Carrie Cordero pondered the unintended consequence... -
Misleading the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has Always Been Dangerous
Over the last week, there's been a great deal of discussion on Lawfare regarding the role that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court might play in clearing up controversy over the Nunes memo. Benja... -
Rational Security: The ‘I Love a Parade’ Edition
Is the intelligence oversight process as we know it dead? We delve into the education of Kim Jong Un. And FBI emails show that the White House misled the public about the reaction to Jim Comey’s firing. ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The White House indicated it is inclined to approve the release of the Democratic rebuttal to the memo released by Rep. Devin Nunes alleging abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department in their efforts ... -
Document: Transcript of HPSCI Vote to Release the Democratic Memo
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has released the transcript of the Feb. 5 business meeting in which it voted to release the HPSCI minority rebuttal to the Nunes memo. You c... -
Documents: FOIA Suit on the Legal Basis of Syrian Airstrikes
In May 2017, the nonprofit Protect Democracy filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the Trump administration's legal justification behind the U.S. airstrikes in Syria during April of t...
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