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...

As Benjamin Wittes and I have noted, the last few weeks of the Obama administration and the first months of the Trump administration generated some activity surrounding the Senate Intelligence Committee’...

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...

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...

Yesterday, I posed ten questions for President Trump in response to his bizarre Twitter temper tantrum accusing his predecessor of wiretapping Trump Tower in the days before the election.

This morning, the country awoke to a bizarre tweetstorm from the President of the United States, about which I have ten questions. First off, here's what Trump tweeted: Donald Trump's Morning Tweet Sto...

This morning, the House Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The hearing will consist of testimony from two panels of witnesses, one close...

The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today starting at 10am on the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Earlier in 2016, Lawfare, in conjunction with the Hoov...

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It looks like the DOJ is going to invoke the state secrets privilege after all in the latest CIA torture suit brought by former detainees, marking the first time that the Trump administration will use th...

As Lawfare readers know, someone in government leaked the news that Michael Flynn did indeed discuss sanctions in his post-election phone calls with Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kisly...