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Fufi's Story: An Israeli General's Lone Mission in the West Bank
“We did not achieve the goal,” Fufi says. I am sitting in a lounge in an upscale Jerusalem hotel in December with an Israeli reserve general named Dov Sedaka, listening as he tells me the story of his t... -
International Terrorism Prosecutions: 2017's Second Material Support Arrest
On February 21st, twenty-five year old Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. was charged in federal district court in the Western District of Missouri with attempting to provide material support to ISIL. Hester is ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Last night, the Washington Post reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. twice during the election, despite denying that he had met with Russian offi... -
A “Qualified SPOC” Approach for India and Mutual Legal Assistance
There has been growing legal, policy, and academic attention to the topic of Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA), the mechanisms for evidence held in one country to be provided to a different country for law e... -
A Closer Look at Congressional Foreign Travel
On Monday, Paul Singer at USA Today reported new data on the burgeoning practice of congressional foreign travel. According to Singer, federal legislators spent more government funds venturing abroad in ... -
Cyber Strategy & Policy: International Law Dimensions
Below is a condensed version of the statement I have prepared for my testimony tomorrow before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the international law dimensions of U.S. cyber strategy and policy (l... -
The Revised Refugee EO: Reports Show a Clear Turn Toward Legal Compliance
The Washington Post’s Matt Zapotosky has reported on forthcoming revisions of President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) on refugees that place the administration in a materially better legal position. -
Ignorance is Bliss: More on the GSA IG and 18F
A few days ago, I wrote about Federal IT systems management. In particular, I noted this GSA-OIG report, and its criticism (in my view wrong headed) of 18F—an innovative Federal IT digital consultancy. ... -
What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s New Diplomatic Offensives?
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz. Saudi Arabia has sent both its king and his foreign minister on important foreign trips recently, as a key part of a significant diplomatic offen... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Donald Trump gave his first presidential address to a joint session of Congress last night, presenting an array of familiarly hard-line ideas in somewhat less less bombastic rhetoric. The address reitera... -
Video: House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Section 702
This morning, the House Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The hearing will consist of testimony from two panels of witnesses, one close... -
America’s Counterterrorism Partners as a Check on Trump
President Trump has begun to shift U.S. counterterrorism policies toward an extreme paradigm that departs from both liberal and conservative orthodoxy. In his first weeks in office, Trump recast the enem...
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