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National Security Highlights from the Second Presidential Debate
The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at Washington University in St. Louis in a town-hall conversation moderated by Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper. Thoug... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Friday afternoon, the United States formally accused the Kremlin of hacking and releasing Democratic Party information to interfere with the U.S. -
Grab 'em by the Constitution: Trump and the Justice Department
I hate to say "I told you so," but gosh, I told you so. A few months ago, during Trump's ascendancy in the GOP primaries, I wrote a piece about his likely impact on and abuse of the powers of the U.S. D... -
Congress Heal Thyself
As I noted last month, the oldest outstanding recommendation, unfulfilled since the 9/11 Commission report, is for Congress to fix its jurisdicitional morass and provide effective, unified oversight of t... -
The Week That Will Be
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Which States Support the 'Unwilling and Unable' Test?
As readers of Lawfare know, a growing number of States believe that use of force in self-defense against a non-state actor on the territory of a third State, without the consent of that third State, may ... -
NSA Compliance and Congress’s Plan: How to Account for Flaws in the Metadata Program?
In the extraordinary transparency that followed Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations, one tantalizing mystery remained: how did the NSA persist until early 2009 in querying metadata under the now-replaced s... -
"War-Algorithm Accountability": A Briefing Report from the Harvard Law School Program on Law and Armed Conflict
Congratulations to Dustin Lewis, Gabriella Blum, and Naz Modirzadeh on the publication, just a few weeks ago, of their exciting new book, War-Algorithm Accountability. -
The DNC Hack and (the Lack of) Deterrence
What Options Does the U.S. Have After Accusing Russia of Hacks?, asks the headline in the NYT story yesterday by David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth. To ask this question is to reveal once again the ineffe... -
To Promote Stability and Democracy in Africa, Focus on Its Militaries
Editor's Note: The United States is more engaged in Africa than ever before. This increasing role is occurring as Africa struggles with political liberalization: although we’ve seen impressive successes,... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Stephanie Leutert on Violence in Mexico and Central America
Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's "Beyond the Border" series, joined Benjamin Wittes on this week's podcast to talk... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes explained why he is withholding commentary on reports that Yahoo is scanning emails for U.S. intelligence agencies, arguing that analysts should wait until the underlying documents are pu...
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