As Congress is discussing reauthorization of Section 702, in the run-up to the statute’s December 31 sunset, we thought it worthwhile to begin asking monthly questions about public confidence in the inte...

Last week on Lawfare's Foreign Policy feed, I explained how the indictment of Paul Manafort for failing to register as a foreign agent may signal that the Department of Justice may be ramping up enforcem...

Does a military commission judge have the power to cite a senior U.S. military officer for contempt as if these tribunals were courts-martial or regular federal courts?

Many reports have focused on the way China’s government uses censorship to suppress certain views in its academic sphere, both of Chinese academics and foreign presses. But how does it use carrots as opp...

Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz. Now that ISIS’s rule in Raqqa is over, both locals and wary external observers are wondering what comes next. The United States government appear...

As discussed in the last post in this series, on Wednesday, military judge Col. Vance Spath held Marine Corps Brig. Gen. John Baker, chief defense counsel of the military commissions, in contempt of cour...

Last Thursday, we released the latest data in our ongoing project measuring public confidence in major American institutions on national security matters. In this post, we do a deeper dive on a specific ...