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Eight Buckets of Cold Water for the Trump Wiretap Story
As with all things Trump, the media is so eager to trash the President that it has turned a serious story into a partisan melee. What both sides need are a few buckets of cold water. Here are eight. 1. ... -
Should the Acting Attorney General Provide FISA Court Orders to White House Counsel?
In his perplexing tweetstorm yesterday, possibly prompted by nothing more than some blend of Mark Levin and Breitbart, President Trump accused former President Obama of wiretapping him in Trump Tower bef... -
Strategy and Tactics for Investigating the Russian Connection
In an earlier life (before I started focussing on cyber issues) I was, for the first 15 years of my career, a specialist in complex criminal, and political investigations, having worked at DOJ (on the Ex... -
Two Cheers for Baghdad
Editor’s Note: The Islamic State is based in Syria and Iraq, and the struggle to fight it crosses borders. However, the two governments of these countries, both rightly maligned and often lumped together... -
Ten More Questions for President Trump
Yesterday, I posed ten questions for President Trump in response to his bizarre Twitter temper tantrum accusing his predecessor of wiretapping Trump Tower in the days before the election. -
The Lawfare Podcast: What Happens When We Don’t Believe the President’s Oath?
Yesterday, Just Security and the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law hosted Benjamin Wittes for a conversation on a question he and I have posed about path of the Trump presid... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The Russian Connection continued to generate attention on the Trump administration this week when it emerged that Attorney General Jeff Sessions neglected to tell Congress that he had met with Russian am... -
Ten Questions for President Trump
This morning, the country awoke to a bizarre tweetstorm from the President of the United States, about which I have ten questions. First off, here's what Trump tweeted: Donald Trump's Morning Tweet Sto... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The New York Times tells us that after facing a bipartisan firestorm of criticism due to revelations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with and spoke to the Russian ambassador to the United States,... -
Proposed Russia Sanctions Legislation
Though there may be plenty of topics about which President Trump and congressional Republicans agree, Russia does not appear to be one of them. The President’s defense of Putin has prompted a cold reacti... -
Intelligence Officers Won’t Exit En Masse During the Trump Administration
Former intelligence analyst Edward Price dramatically resigned from CIA last week in an op-ed in the Washington Post—complete with a video critique that has gone viral on social media. Is Mr. Price’s dep... -
Event Video: "Cybersecurity in the Trump Administration: What Should We Expect?"
The Hoover Institution has made available video of the event we did at Hoover's DC office with the folks at Intel Security. It was a terrific event, of which we'll be featuring excerpts on this week's La...
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