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The White House released the following National Security Strategy document on Monday, Dec. 18.
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I’m struck by the kerfuffle over text messages sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom he was apparently having an affair. The messages bash Trump and seem to favor Clinton—f...
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on "Using Force: Strategic, Political, and Legal Considerations." The committee will hear testimony from the fol...
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President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. Read the conference report here and Lawfare's previous coverage highlighting parts of the bill here. The pre...
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The White House Press Office has released the following letter, dated Dec. 11, 2017, informing Congress of current military operations consistent with the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for the use of mili...
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I wrote Monday morning about costs within the Justice Department when its leaders stay silent in the face of the president’s caustic attacks on the department’s independence and integrity. I mentioned in...
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There are a few problems with Dershowitz's thesis.
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The interpretation of the Flynn plea is subject to the usual risks that someone—Robert Mueller—knows far more than anyone else, and with what is available on the public record, it may be impossible to ap...
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The news that former national security adviser Michael Flynn has reached a cooperation and plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller could not come as less of a surprise. Reports of Flynn’s bizarre b...
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Lawfare’s readers are well-aware that the political echelons of the Trump administration are woefully understaffed. Ten months into this presidency, the pace of appointments under Trump trails that of hi...
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Last Thursday, the conference committee for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018 filed its report reconciling the differences between the House and Senate versions of the le...
