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Why Federal IT Will Never Be Secure
Few stories have depressed me as much as this report from earlier this month in the Washington Post. It looks to be normal fare -- a news report about an IG report that finds some aspects of a Federal a... -
Indefinite War
We just entered the second year of a purported “era of persistent conflict” forecasted to extend to 2028. In that context, does it really matter if we can tell that a particular war has definitively conc... -
President Trump’s Anti-Secular Foreign Policy?
Editor’s Note: The Trump administration is turning many things on their heads, not least the role religion is playing in society. But what is happening is also shaping U.S. policy overseas. Jacques Berli... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Paul Lewis on Not Closing Guantanamo
Under the oversight of Paul Lewis, the Department of Defense’s Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure under the Obama administration, the detainee population at Guantanamo Bay went from -
White House Interference with Justice Department Investigations, Part II: The “Reince, What Are You Doing?” Edition
For the second time this week, we have to analyze the propriety of communications between the White House and elements of the Justice Department. The messiness of the allegations pretty neatly sums up wh... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On President’s Day this week, President Donald picked a widely-praised national security adviser in the person of Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster. -
The DHS Border Memo II: Removal First, Hearing Later?
One subject of senior U.S. officials’ talks with Mexico on Thursday was a proposal in the recently issued DHS memo on border enforcement that would return undocumented noncitizens to Mexico before a U.S.... -
Trump’s DOJ to Assert State Secrets Privilege in Salim v. Mitchell
It looks like the DOJ is going to invoke the state secrets privilege after all in the latest CIA torture suit brought by former detainees, marking the first time that the Trump administration will use th... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
CNN tells us that FBI Director James Comey refused a recent request by White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to publicly knock down media reports about communications between President Donald Trump’s... -
Memo to the NSC: Check Out Some Databases at the State Department before Finalizing that New Executive Order
We received this morning an extraordinary message from a group of Foreign Service officers. -
Making National Security Arguments in Court (and Congress), Part II: Some Advice for Secretary Kelly
Any day now, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kelly is going to have to make a tough call: whether to sign his name to a document that makes the national and homeland security case for the... -
British Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Among Mosul Suicide Bombers
This past Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced renewed efforts by Iraqi forces to retake western Mosul from ISIL, which would include about 450 U.S. advisers “operating closer and deepe...
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