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The Law of Retired Military Officers and Political Endorsements: A Primer
Among the many novel features of the 2016 presidential election campaign is the increasingly visible participation of former military officers in the political process. Below is a brief primer on the leg... -
What’s Driving the Passion Behind JASTA?
In all the debate over the Justice Against Sponsored Terrorism Act (JASTA), the hardest argument to ignore has been from the victims of the September 11th attack. The moral and political clout of this gr... -
Ideology à la Carte: Why Lone Actor Terrorists Choose and Fuse Ideologies
Editor's Note: The succession of so-called "Lone Wolf" attacks that have hit America in the last year have generated a wave of panic about the Islamic State's global reach. Yet many of the individuals se... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Rosa Brooks on ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Rosa Brooks joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about her new book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon. The book covers an... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes shared seven questions on national security and executive powers that he would have liked to ask Donald Trump in this week’s presidential debate. He also reflected on the debate by asking... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The intensity of the Russian and Syrian offensive is driving rebel groups to ally with extremist factions linked to al-Qaeda, the Wall Street Journal reports. The insurgents—including groups formerly bac... -
The Trump National Security Paradox
To my knowledge, the first explicit argument—at least by a prominent member of the national security community—that the man who would become the Republican standard bearer for President in 2016 poses a t... -
Water Wars: The Philippines Pivots Towards Beijing
Duterte threatens to "cross the rubicon" with United States President Duterte during an award ceremony on Monay (Photo: NPR) -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States is threatening to suspend cooperation in Syria with Russia, including on counterterrorism strikes, unless the Kremlin acts to halt the humanitarian disaster in Aleppo, the Washington Po... -
The ICANN and IANA Transition End Game II
I reported last week on the ICANN and IANA transtion end game. This week, Congress left town having passed a continuing resolution WITHOUT including a prohibition that would stop the Administration from... -
DOJ OIG Report on Use of Section 215
The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Justice has released an unclassified version of a report on the FBI's use of Section 215 from 2012-2014. The classified version of the report was pro... -
Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act: Initial Analysis
Congress has overridden President Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). JASTA has been rightly criticized by other commentators (for example here and here); my purpose he...
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