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What Are ‘Juggalos’ and Why Are They Marching Against the FBI?
On Saturday, the Juggalos marched on Washington. According to their website, they would “take our fight to the streets” this weekend to protest the FBI’s treatment of them. Which led a lot of people to a... -
Intelligence, Politicization, and the Russia Probe
Editor’s Note: The incoming administration's scorn for intelligence professionals is a matter of grave concern to many of us at Lawfare. I, for one, worry that the administration will conduct its foreign... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Brookings Panel on Cybersecurity in U.S. Elections
The evidence of foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. elections emphasizes the significant national security threat to our democracy posed by weak cybersecurity in election-critical systems. Last week, S... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Jack Goldsmith analyzed the precedents for a legal justification for a strike on North Korea in opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Bob Bauer argued that the impeachment proc... -
DreamHost Documents Summaries
On July 28, the Department of Justice turned to the D.C. superior court to enforce a since-modified computer search warrant against DreamHost, a web hosting service. One of DreamHost’s customers, a websi... -
The Successes and Failures of the President's Disaster Response
On our Foreign Policy feed, we describe the high points and shortcomings of the White House's response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The piece begins: -
Water Wars: September Sea Squabbles
Water Wars: September Sea Squabbles Relations between China and Vietnam continue to sour, the Pentagon schedules regular South China Sea FONOPs, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration notches a win. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan on Friday in its longest ever test flight, the New York Times reported. The missile launched from an airport north of Pyongyang and flew a distance of 2,3... -
An Open Letter to Joseph Arpaio’s Attorneys
Last week, I wrote an op-ed in The Boston Globe suggesting that a private attorney should be appointed to challenge the constitutionality of former Sheriff Joseph Arpaio’s pardon—a suggestion that has no... -
The National Security Law Podcast: NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell on Section 702
We have a special treat in this off-cycle episode! NSA GC Glenn Gerstell is in Austin to speak to our students here at UT, and (no doubt against his better judgment) he agreed to sit for an interview wit... -
An American Enemy Combatant Case? The News Out of DOD, and What Might Happen Next
DOD has confirmed that an (as-yet-unidentified) American citizen is being held in U.S. military custody in Syria or Iraq as an enemy combatant. More specifically, the available information asserts that ... -
The Syrian Crisis: A Reckoning and a Road Map
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz. The tide in the Syrian civil war has clearly shifted. After capturing Aleppo in late 2016, Bashar Assad’s regime—with much help from its Russian ...
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