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What Did Mike Pompeo Say to the CIA Workforce in his Holiday Message?
I confess that I don't know the answer to this question. But the grapevine has been buzzing this morning in response to a Christmas letter the CIA director apparently sent to his workforce—a message wh... -
Congress Buys Itself Another Three Weeks on Section 702
On Dec. 21, the House and Senate voted 238-188 and 66-32, respectively, to pass a concurring resolution extending government funding until Jan. 19, 2018. One provision of that bill extended the FISA Amen... -
How Should International Law Treat Cyberattacks like WannaCry?
North Korea was behind the infamous WannaCry cyberattack, asserted homeland security adviser Thomas P. Bossert in a Dec. -
Rational Security: The "Beam Me Up, Santa" Edition
Robert Mueller gets hold of emails from the presidential transition. The Pentagon has been researching sightings of UFOs. And a U.S. citizen is being held as an enemy combatant in Iraq. -
The Trump Administration and the United Nations: A Good News Story
My hat is off to the Trump administration’s deft diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council. -
‘Pressure Techniques’ and Oversight of Shin Bet Interrogations: Abu Gosh v. Attorney General
Last week, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision concerning one of the most sensitive areas of counterterrorism policy and practice. The decision considered so-called “pressure techniques” the Is... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Thursday, The U.N. General Assembly voted 128-9 to condemn President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the New York Times reports. The vote, which included 35 abstentio... -
Private-Sector Attribution of Cyber Attacks: A Growing Concern for the U.S. Government?
Attribution of cyber incidents is a reoccurring concern. Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election remains a contentious issue, and on Tuesday, the White House publicly linked North Kore... -
The Strange WannaCry Attribution
I’ve been trying to figure out why the U.S. government thought it was useful to attribute the “WannaCry” attack to North Korea. WannaCry was a global ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of c... -
Summary: D.C. District Court Rejects Government Motion for a Stay in Transgender Servicemember Litigation
On Dec. 11, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia denied a government motion in Doe v. Trump that requested a partial stay of an Oct. 30 injunction that requ... -
Christmas in the Trenches 2017
As is my annual custom, this song is both thanks to all those who serve our country and a reminder of why they serve—to "secure the blessings of liberty." My best wishes to all Lawfare readers for a war... -
The National Security Strategy and the Middle East, Trump's Jerusalem Mess, and Riyadh's Nuclear Plans
What the National Security Strategy Means for U.S. Policy in the Middle East
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