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Michael Feinberg detailed the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) efforts to oust him from the agency over his long-time friendship with an official on the FBI’s “enemies” list, the shift in the agency’s climate since the start of the second Trump administration, and his decision to ultimately resign.
On July 3 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss oral argument in the 5th Circuit regarding challenges to the Alien Enemies Act, the decision in the Susman Godfrey case, the latest on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, and more.
Wittes listed out some notable events that have occurred over the past few days, including the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy bill in the Senate, the nomination of Alina Habba to be the permanent U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, the forced resignation of the president of the University of Virginia, and more.
On Lawfare Daily, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sat down with associate professor at the Naval War College and Columbia University, Lindsay Cohn, to take stock of the Trump administration’s handling of the U.S. military. They discussed military parades, the U.S. military presence in Los Angeles and along the U.S.-Mexico border, and more.
Vida Johnson reviewed Jessica Pishko, Emily Farris, and Mirya Holman’s latest books on the unchecked power of sheriffs and its threat to American democracy, suggesting that American sheriffs as an institution are increasingly synonymous with far-right, anti-government world views.
Alan Rozenshtein shared a series of Justice Department letters concerning the enforcement of the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” which grants TikTok an additional 90-day extension on its ban in the United States.
In the inaugural episode of a new podcast series produced in partnership with the University of Texas School of Law, Lawfare Senior Editor Kevin Frazier and Lawfare Research Director Rozenshtein spoke with senior fellow for the Technology and Innovation team at the R Street Institute, Adam Thierer, and Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Helen Toner. They discussed the defeat of the moratorium on state and local AI regulation in the Senate, the future of U.S. AI governance, the splintering of the Republican party on tech policy, and more.
Frazier maintained that the American pursuit of artificial intelligence (AI) dominance requires that the U.S. government and private actors address the relative lack of formal security measures for AI experts who increasingly hold profound economic and strategic significance.
In the latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business newsletter, Tom Uren broke down Iran’s disruptive cyber attacks, reports that the FBI isn’t doing enough to protect agents from ubiquitous technical surveillance, and more.
David Kirichenko explored the novel diplomatic and military strategies Ukraine is using to engage Russia around the world, emphasizing Ukraine’s disruption of Russian economic and military operations across the African continent and the Middle East.
On Lawfare Daily, Tuen Janssen, a staff member at the European Parliament, joined Ben Wittes to talk about Europe Europe stepping up for Ukraine in the United States’s stead, E.U. enlargement, the role Ukraine has to play in this process, and more.
Nate Schenkkan explained how actions taken by the Trump administration have undercut Biden-era policies to counter transnational repression (counter-TNR)—which made the protection of exiles and diasporas a priority—and analyzed areas of the counter-TNR policy space in which the damage inflicted by the administration would be felt the most.
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Director of Technology, Law, and Policy at the Human Rights Center, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Lindsay Freeman, to discuss her latest Lawfare piece, “War Crimes for Fun and Profit,” why “war influencers” with connections to private military companies like the Wagner Group are posting evidence of their crimes online, how self incriminating evidence of war crimes has led to little accountability, and more.
And Cornell Overfield argued that the May 22 agreement between the U.K. and Mauritania recognizing Mauritanian sovereignty in the Chagos Archipelago and granting an extension in the U.K’s lease of Diego Garcia presents an opportunity for the U.S. to deepen its security and economic partnership with the Indian Ocean island chain.
