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Cybersecurity is the national security issue that will likely dominate the first one hundred days of the Trump administration. After his briefing with the intelligence community on Russia’s role in the e...
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The end of an administration and the beginning of a new one, like the turn of a year, is a good time to review one’s own analytic record. Doing so is a way of keeping oneself honest and humble, and thus ...
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The world probably does not need another podcast, but it’s getting one anyway… As many of you already know, my friend Steve Vladeck joined me on the faculty at UT-Austin this past fall. We’re coteaching ...
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Two executive orders released today dealt with the new administration’s immigration policy. One, summarized here, focuses on immigration enforcement in the context of border security.
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This afternoon, the Trump administration released the text of a new executive order concerning “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements.” The stated purpose of the order is to improve na...
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President Donald Trump delivered remarks to employees of the Department of Homeland Security earlier today. Video of his speech is available below from the White House YouTube channel. (The speech begin...
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President Donald Trump is set to announce a series of executive orders on national security-related issues today including immigration, detention and interrogation, and designation of the Muslim Brotherh...
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Author's Note: I wrote the following in the belief that the draft executive order published yesterday by the Washington Post and analyzed yesterday by the Times and the Post was either the final text or ...
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The news today is shocking. Russian authorities have arrested a top Kaspersky cybersecurity manager for espionage.
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Darren E. Tromblay has served the U.S. Intelligence Community, as an Intelligence Analyst, for more than a decade. He is the author of The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise: History, Development, and...
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On Sunday night, the Wall Street Journal broke a story that U.S. counterintelligence officials “had investigated” the communications of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as part of a counterintelli...
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For President Trump, negative news coverage must be the handiwork of partisan enemies.