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Refugee EO: Hawaii’s Response to the Government’s Request for a Stay
Yesterday, Hawaii posted a response to the government’s request to the Supreme Court to stay Hawaii District Court Judge Derrick Watson’s injunction regarding President Trump’s Refugee Executive Order (E... -
Could Trump Jr., Kushner, or Manafort Be Charged Under the Espionage Act?
Below is an excerpt from a piece that appeared on our Foreign Policy feed earlier today. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Ike Kaveladze, an employee of Russian developers Emin and Aras Agalarov, attended as the Agalarov’s representative the June 2016 meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, The ... -
FBI Independence: Some Thoughts in Response to Robert Litt
I appreciate Robert Litt's response to my recent Lawfare piece, which raised the possibility of Congress giving the FBI independence from presidential control by means of statutory for-cause limits on re... -
The SF-86 is Hard!
Many are suggesting that Jared Kushner may have committed a crime in failing to accurately complete his SF-86 disclosure for -
Shuttle Diplomacy Falls Short in Gulf Crisis, Israel Concerned about Ceasefire in Syria, and Two Tenuous Years of the Iran Nuclear Deal
Emirati-backed Hackers Started Gulf Crisis, According to U.S. Intelligence -
A Continuing Need for Stealth with Loud Cyber Weapons
C4ISRNET recently published an interesting and useful four-part series exploring what U.S. Cyber Command will need to operate on its own, separate from the National Security Agency. (Part I is here and p... -
The National Security Law Podcast: The AUMF: All You Ever Wanted to Know (and Plenty You Didn’t)
Want a thorough backgrounder on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force? This is the episode for you. (This also is the episode for you if what you want, instead, is an hour of legal blather fol... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: The Tragedy of Federal IT Procurement
This episode is dominated by IT procurement news. And it’s as irresistible as a twelve-car pileup on the Beltway. We open the news with an exploration of the federal de-listing of Kaspersky Labs, and h... -
A New Front Opens in L'Affaire Russe
Don't look now, but a new front has opened in L'Affaire Russe. It will be a quiet one at first, but I suspect it won't stay quiet for long. The new front is civil litigation. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
U.S. intelligence officials say the United Arab Emirates was behind a hacking operation that falsely attributed inflammatory statements to the Emir of Qatar and subsequently created a diplomatic rift bet... -
Rethinking Corporate Active Cyber Defense
The recent WannaCry and NotPetya global cyber incidents have fueled the debate already raging over the role of and limits on corporate self-defense in cyberspace. The emerging international practice of “...
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