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Another War in Lebanon?
Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah spar regularly, and Hezbollah’s intervention in the Syrian civil war expanded their conflict’s front line. In the years since the war began in 2011, Israel has attacked ... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Special Edition: Kavanaugh vs. the Committee With No Bull, Part I
Judge Brett Kavanaugh faced the Senate Judiciary Committee in Day One of a two-day marathon Q&A session for his nomination as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. We sat through it all so you don'... -
Rational Security: The 'New Digs' Edition
A bombshell new book shows the Trump presidency on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The US pulls funding for a Palestinian relief agency. And the president lashed out again at the attorney general and t... -
SinoTech: Huawei Appeals to U.S. Agencies for Market Access
Chinese telecommunication company Huawei has filed a 39-page comment with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that the U.S. government has unfairly denied Huawei and other Chinese telecom compani... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, and Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, are spending the morning in front of the Senate intelligence committee to testify on their companies’ respon... -
We're Hiring: Announcing a New Brookings-Lawfare Congressional Fellowship
We are very excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for a new position at Lawfare and Brookings. This two-year fellowship is dedicated to covering congressional activity on national se... -
A Request for Intelligence Community Employees With Bad Prepublication Review Experiences
I’ve written a lot (usually with Oona Hathaway) about the pathologies of the government’s prepublication review procedures. -
Artificial Intelligence – A Counterintelligence Perspective: Part II
In the first part of this series on the counterintelligence implications of artificial intelligence (AI), I discussed AI and counterintelligence at a high level and described some features of each that I... -
Livestream: Jack Dorsey and Sheryl Sandberg Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee on Foreign Influence Operations on Social Media
On Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m., the Senate intelligence committee will hold a hearing on foreign influence operations’s use of social media. The hearing will feature testimony from Sheryl Sandberg, Fa... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In a tweet, President Trump lambasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Justice Department’s indictments of two Republican congressmen, according to the New York Times. -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on “Assessing the Value of the NATO Alliance.” The ... -
I Wrote About Russian Election Interference. Then I Was Trolled Online.
A colleague and I recently published an op-ed in Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s leading daily newspapers, about Russia’s attempts to influence elections in democratic countries. Among the Russian tac...
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