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This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/8 Session: Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Talk About the Cole?
Editor's Note: Our military commissions coverage will be out of order this week due to difficulties in accessing transcripts from the Office of Military Commissions website. As such, coverage for Wednesd... -
Two Is Company, Three Is a Crowd: The Iran Factor in the Changing U.S.-Russia Relationship
Editor’s Note: President Trump came into office seemingly determined to improve U.S.-Russia relations, with fighting the Islamic State high on the mutual agenda. Standing in the way of better cooperation... -
The Legality of the 3/6/17 Executive Order, Part I: The Statutory and Separation of Powers Analyses
On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new executive order on immigration that superseded an order he signed on January 27. -
Adding Data to the VEP Debate: RAND's New Report
When WikiLeaks shed light on the CIA’s stockpile of software vulnerabilities last week, it revived—but hardly clarified—the debate on whether the government hoards too many bugs. In principle, the intera... -
McGahn Should Have Preempted the (Latest) Flynn Mess
Over at Daily Beast I explain why I think White House Counsel Don McGahn should have discovered and fixed Michael Flynn's foreign agent problems long before Flynn became National Security Advisor. The m... -
The True Costs of the Wall: Reduced Security
We have written on this blog about the financial costs of President Trump's plan to build a wall on the southwest border. Cost estimates are somewhere north of $20 billion—and if we are going to spend t... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jack Goldsmith and Matt Olsen on the Current State of National Security
This week on the podcast, Jack Goldsmith sat down with former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen to talk about the current state of national security. What should we make of the ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
President Trump got us started this week by tweeting that former President Barack Obama had ordered a “tapp” of his phones during the presidential election. Benjamin Wittes asked ten questions that were ... -
Flynn, FISA, and FARA: On Foreign Principals and Agents of Foreign Powers
Yesterday, news broke that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had been paid $530,000 for his work lobbying for a Turkish firm with connections to that country’s government during the presiden... -
A Programming Note on This Week’s Military Commissions Coverage
Lawfare would like to apologize for the delay in our military commissions coverage this week. As our readers know, we rely on transcripts provided by the Office of Military Commissions to provide our cov... -
Hoover National Security and Law Associate
The Hoover Institution is looking for its next National Security and Law Associate, the position currently occupied by Jane Chong. The work includes extensive writing and editing for Lawfare. The job ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Politico tells us that yesterday, FBI Director James Comey briefed the “Gang of Eight” on Trump’s claims that former President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap against him, including top Republicans an...
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