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Governance is one of the most important foreign policy challenges—and among the most difficult. Poor governance is linked to civil wars, corruption and a lack of economic development, among other grave p...
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Lawfare readers are familiar with the perennial regulatory challenge of determining which country’s law enforcement agents ought to be able to access internet data stored in the cloud. This is a consider...
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The New York Times filed the following motion with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requesting the public release of the applications for and orders authorizing electronic surveillance of Trum...
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Sorry that football season is over? Lucky for you, the National Security Law Podcast has no offseason! And lucky for your co-hosts, the world keeps generating new topics for conversation and debate. Thi...
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The Pentagon announced Monday that Harvey Rishikof, convening authority for the military commissions, and Gary Brown, legal adviser to the convening authority, were relieved of their duties, as Carol Ros...
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On Monday, the House intelligence committee voted unanimously to release Democrats’ rebuttal to the Nunes memo, the Washington Post reports. Speaking with reporters after the vote, Rep.
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On Jan. 31, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of Fields v. Twitter. The decision protects the social media company from liability in connection with an a...
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The crypto wars return to The Cyberlaw Podcast in episode 201, as I interview Susan Landau about her new book on the subject, ‘Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age.’ Susan and I have been debat...
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The memo is out, and it is already stale. The Nunes memo makes one central allegation: that the FBI and Department of Justice did not live up to the duty of candor expected of them by the in camera ex pa...
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Tuesday is a busy day on the hill. The following hearings may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
The House Committee on Armed Services is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. on the National ...
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The U.K. Court of Appeal has held that Section 1 of an expired state surveillance law, the 2014 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act, was unlawful as it related to “access to retained data,” or pe...
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At the heart of the now-released “Nunes memo” is an accusation that the FBI and Department of Justice misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) when they sought orders to surveil former T...
