There are two real stories involving the CIA data dump by Wikileaks, neither of which is about the actual documents themselves. The first is that somebody managed to exfiltrate the data from the CIA in t...

A month after President Trump issued his January 25, 2017 executive order, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” there remains a great deal of confusion: about what qualifies as...

On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new executive order on immigration that superseded an order he signed on

On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new executive order on immigration that superseded an order he signed on January 27.

Yesterday, news broke that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had been paid $530,000 for his work lobbying for a Turkish firm with connections to that country’s government during the presiden...

Nick Weaver wins the prize for rapid response, but a few additional observations might be helpful. First, I echo Nick’s observation that it’s hardly a surprise that the CIA has a bunch of its own hackin...

This evening, President Trump nominated Courtney Elwood to be CIA General Counsel and John Sullivan to be DoD General Counsel. These are excellent appointments and good news for the national security la...

It is now almost Lawfare tradition that when interesting classified technical documents are dumped, I take advantage of my lack of security clearance to do an initial analysis. (I’ll leave for another da...

The New York Times is striking a note of befuddled agnosticism as to the tonal difference between the rollout of the original executive order on refugees and visas back in January and that of the revised...

As with all things Trump, the media is so eager to trash the President that it has turned a serious story into a partisan melee. What both sides need are a few buckets of cold water. Here are eight. 1. ...

In his perplexing tweetstorm yesterday, possibly prompted by nothing more than some blend of Mark Levin and Breitbart, President Trump accused former President Obama of wiretapping him in Trump Tower bef...