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House of Cards: Building Our National Security on the Alt-Right’s Alternative Threats
In November, I cautioned that then-President-elect Trump’s appointment of Breitbart CEO Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist and Michael “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL” Flynn as his national security adv... -
OLC Memo on Refugee Executive Order
The Department of Justice has released the Office of Legal Counsel memo assessing the legality of President Trump's executive order banning entry into the United States by refugees and immigrants from se... -
Is Steve Bannon’s Role on the National Security Council Actually Unprecedented?
In response to outcry over President Trump’s reorganization of the National Security Council—and particularly Steve Bannon’s elevation to the NSC and his permanent invite to the NSC’s Principals Committe... -
An Easy Win: Replenishing the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)
With this week’s White House announcement of an intent to nominate additional leadership officials at the Department of Justice, one of whom is current Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)... -
First, They Came for the Iranians
Iranians were not the only target of President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday banning entry to the United States, nor did they appear to be its primary focus. Citizens of six other predominantly M... -
Calm Down, Trump Did Not Just Relax Russia Sanctions
For sanctions-watchers, the familiar rhythm of responding to new general licenses issued by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is typically uneventful. You receive an email from OFAC anno... -
Just Security Posts on Trump's Executive Order on Refugees and Immigration
Over the days since President Trump signed his executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, Lawfare has produced a great deal of c... -
Rational Security: The "Huddled Masses" Edition
The Trump administration’s executive order on immigration spurs chaos and protests. Speaking of protest, does the mass signing of a State Department dissent cable signal a new rise of bureaucratic resist... -
How the Courts Could See Their Way to Striking Down the Trump Travel Ban
The Trump executive order banning nationals of seven Muslim states and suspending refugee admissions is, as a matter of policy, monumentally stupid. It is malevolence tempered only by incompetence, as Be... -
Government Watchdogs Request Investigation into Spicer's Comments on State Dissent Memo
Two good government groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Government Accountability Project, have written to the Office of Special Counsel requesting an investigation into ... -
Judge Gorsuch on Empathy and Institutional Design
The reception to Judge Neal Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court has largely overlooked two attributes: 1) Judge Gorsuch’s compassion for the unpopular and vulnerable, and 2) his sense of connection... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The New York Times examines the botched counterterrorism raid in Yemen over the weekend in which “almost everything that could go wrong did,” resulting in the deaths of numerous civilians and Navy SEAL C...
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