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Liveblog: Sally Yates Testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism is hearing testimony from former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on "Russian Interf... -
Liveblog: International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump
Join me as I liveblog today's oral argument in International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, which the Fourth Circuit is hearing en banc at 2:30 pm—you can follow along under the C-SPAN livestream e... -
Two Upcoming Lawfare Liveblogs This Afternoon: Sally Yates' Testimony and IRAP v. Trump
As Lawfare readers are likely aware, two important events will be taking place at 2:30pm Eastern time this afternoon: first, a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism featurin... -
What’s the Legal Basis for the Syria Strikes? The Administration Must Acknowledge Limits on its Power to Start a War
Just over a month ago, the Administration launched missile strikes against the Assad regime in Syria. The strikes followed a brutal chemical attack that killed scores of innocent civilians. We are all di... -
Active Cyber Defense a/k/a Hackback
I am a bit of an outlier in the cybersecurity community since I think that there are circumstances in which private actors ought to be allowed to more aggressively respond to intrusions on their systems ... -
Will the ICC Launch a Full Investigation in Afghanistan?
In mid-November, International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced that her office would make a decision “in the very near future” on whether to launch a full investigation in Afghanistan.... -
Digital Divergence: How Digital Network Technology Threatens both Privacy and Security
The National Constitution Center is hosting an event in Philadelphia on May 10, entitled “Digital Privacy in the 21st Century.” It features a keynote address from Jeffrey Rosen, the President and CEO of... -
The Macron Leaks: Are They Real, and Is It Russia?
French President-elect Emmanuel Macron has a lot on his mind as he prepares to assume office. One topic we can be sure he’s thinking about: what to do about the dumping of various of his campaign documen... -
A Base On Which to Build: Le Pen May Have Lost, But Don’t Count Her Out
It’s hard to tell if Marine Le Pen’s official campaign website is a political ad or a perfume commercial. We are on a beach, Marine in a marine scene—so to speak—her blonde hair and cape aflutter in the ... -
Who Counts as al-Qaeda: Lessons from Libya
Editor’s Note: Ties to a terrorist group are rightly a stigma. However, given the nebulous nature of many groups, such connections are often easy to overstate. Alex Thurston, my colleague at Georgetown, ... -
The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Fires Comey, the One Man Who Would Stand Up to Him
Make no mistake: The firing of James Comey as FBI director is a stunning event. It is a profoundly dangerous thing—a move that puts the Trump-Russia investigation in immediate jeopardy and removes from t... -
The Lawfare Podcast: A House Divided
Three months into the Trump presidency, where does the relationship between the President and the intelligence community stand? Donald Trump is no longer quite so regularly combative in his tweets and pu...
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