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Text: President Trump's Revised Travel Ban Executive Order
President Trump signed a revised executive order restricting entry into the United States from six majority-Muslim nations this morning. The text of the order is available below and on the White House we... -
The Week That Will Be
Lawfare's weekly roundup of event announcements and employment opportunities. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Donald Trump accused his predecessor, President Barack Obama, on Saturday of tapping his phones at Trump Tower in the lead-up to the November presidential election. Trump delivered these explos... -
Investigating the Obama Wiretap Order
Yesterday, I wrote about the strategy and tactics for investigating the Trump/Russia connection. As you may imagine, I got a number of responses which are unpublishable in these pages. To my surprise, ... -
Keeping the Peace in Lebanon
Three weeks into President Donald Trump’s already-chaotic tenure, the secretary general of Hezbollah appeared to be feeling good. “When a fool lives in the White House, this is the start of an opening fo... -
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...
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