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An Unconventional Test Case for Civilian Control of the Military
President Trump’s appointment of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to succeed Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor has generally been lauded, whether in recognition of McMaster’s strengths, his predecessor’s ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The New York Times reports that President Donald Trump plans to submit a budget for the coming fiscal year that includes large increases to the Department of Defense that will be partially offset by dras... -
How Will We Know if the Russia-Trump Investigations by Congress and the FBI Are Credible?
To date, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and congressional Republican leaders have resisted calls for an independent investigation of the scandals concerning Russia and Donald Trump and his circle—the mos... -
The Week That Will Be
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Leaked DHS Report Contradicts White House Claims on Travel Ban
Last week, CNN reported that the Trump Administration, in the wake of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling on the administration’s immigration order, asked the Department of Homeland Security for assistance in jus... -
Why Federal IT Will Never Be Secure
Few stories have depressed me as much as this report from earlier this month in the Washington Post. It looks to be normal fare -- a news report about an IG report that finds some aspects of a Federal a... -
Indefinite War
We just entered the second year of a purported “era of persistent conflict” forecasted to extend to 2028. In that context, does it really matter if we can tell that a particular war has definitively conc... -
President Trump’s Anti-Secular Foreign Policy?
Editor’s Note: The Trump administration is turning many things on their heads, not least the role religion is playing in society. But what is happening is also shaping U.S. policy overseas. Jacques Berli... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Paul Lewis on Not Closing Guantanamo
Under the oversight of Paul Lewis, the Department of Defense’s Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure under the Obama administration, the detainee population at Guantanamo Bay went from -
White House Interference with Justice Department Investigations, Part II: The “Reince, What Are You Doing?” Edition
For the second time this week, we have to analyze the propriety of communications between the White House and elements of the Justice Department. The messiness of the allegations pretty neatly sums up wh... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On President’s Day this week, President Donald picked a widely-praised national security adviser in the person of Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster. -
The DHS Border Memo II: Removal First, Hearing Later?
One subject of senior U.S. officials’ talks with Mexico on Thursday was a proposal in the recently issued DHS memo on border enforcement that would return undocumented noncitizens to Mexico before a U.S....
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