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Rational Security: The "Moron" Edition
President Trump tells Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that he’s wasting his time negotiating with North Korea. A gunman opens fire in Las Vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in at least half a century.... -
A Modest Proposal for the New Travel Ban: Swear It Under Oath
The Trump administration recently unveiled a new version of the travel ban, and questions immediately arose concerning whether pending challenges to the previous order have become moot. -
Understanding China’s Crackdown on Bitcoin and ICOs
China put its red-hot cryptocurrency market on ice last month when it shut down bitcoin exchanges and banned initial coin offerings (ICOs), an emerging tactic through which cryptocurrency ventures raise ... -
House Judiciary Committee Section 702 Reform Bill
The House Judiciary Committee has released a discussion draft of the USA Liberty Act, a bill to reform Title XII of the FISA Amendments Act. The document is included below. -
If the Government Surveilled Manafort, It Wasn't About Politics
On our Foreign Policy feed, we unpack a busy week of reports about Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and address the merits of his spokesman's claim that this is all about politics. The article begin... -
Video and Transcript: Press Conference by Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner of SSCI on the Russia Probe
Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) held a press conference this afternoon providing an update on the Senate probe into Russia's meddlin... -
The National Security Law Podcast: It Is More Likely Than Not That Our FARRA Discussion Will Bore You
If you have ever wondered what statutes, constitutional principles, and judicial precedents come into play when the U.S. government contemplates transferring an American citizen from our military custody... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Defense Secretary James Mattis said that upholding the Iran nuclear deal was in U.S. interests, contradicting President Trump’s criticism of the agreement, according to the New York Times. In testimony b... -
North Korean Arms Entering Egypt: The System at Work
On October 1, 2017, reports emerged of an odd interdiction of North Korean arms in August 2016. Acting on a tip from Washington, Egyptian customs officials boarded the Jie Shun, a bulk freighter sailing ... -
Endless War
PDF version A review of Robert Gerwarth’s The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). *** -
Common Article 3 and Linkages Between Non-State Armed Groups
Editor's note: This piece is the second installment in a mutli-blog series building on the Fifth Annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict, as explained in detail here. -
The Lawfare Podcast, Bonus Edition: Jack Goldsmith on the Norm-Defying Presidency
President Trump's conduct in office draws a sharp contrast between laws that formally restrict the presidency and the institutional norms that presidents have historically followed. For the October 2017 ...
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