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3 May 2016, 2:02 pm
A United States Navy SEAL was killed today after Islamic State militants broke through the front line of Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 11:33 am
The Washington Post informs us that the Justice Department has issued indictments for two Russian FSB officers and two criminal hackers for the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 4:30 am
According to news reports, the end of the Mueller investigation is near. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 2:36 pm
Lawfare’s Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes had some questions of their own for Apple and provided a link to the hearing. [read post]
13 May 2016, 12:54 pm
Hezbollah’s top military command was killed in a “major explosion” at Damascus airport. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 2:35 pm
On June 1, police, along with the National Guard, rammed protestors and hit them with shields and batons to clear a path through Lafayette Square so that President Trump could make his way to St. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 5:00 am
Now that Congress has launched an impeachment investigation into President Trump’s effort to use the Ukrainian government to target a political rival, much ink has been spilled on the question of whether Trump’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors” for which he may be impeached. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 1:12 pm
As Jack Goldsmith detailed on Lawfare: The Executive branch, and most notably the Office of Legal Counsel, has through its legal opinions developed an elaborate set of constitutional justifications for unilateral presidential military action. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 1:53 pm
At least 38 civilians were killed and dozens more were injured in a eruption of violence throughout Aleppo. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 12:21 pm
Five years of failed efforts to end the fighting in Syria have persuaded many observers that the war may not be resolvable any time soon. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 2:22 pm
“For the first time in the two years since the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, proclaimed the existence of an ‘Islamic caliphate’ straddling Syria and Iraq, the jihadi group is at real risk of losing much of the territory it holds. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 8:51 am
Four years after four-star general Lloyd J. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 1:19 pm
An alliance of moderate opposition groups has unveiled a detailed transition plan for Syria that commits the country to safeguarding both democratic and religious pluralism. [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 7:18 am
In July, as the country rounded out Donald Trump’s 30th month as president, sirens blared about the integrity of the 2020 presidential elections. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 11:38 am
(Lawfare, a project of the Brookings Institution and Harvard Law School, and founded by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Jack Goldsmith, is the go-to online daily journal on national security law; careful, measured, never crazy, and scrupulous about separating objective description from prescriptive comment. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 5:31 am
As Donald Trump battles in court to stall the process of the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago investigation, the press has continued to uncover damaging new information about Trump’s conduct regarding government documents held improperly at the former president’s Florida resort. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 6:30 am
Benjamin Wittes, who has been open about his friendship with Comey, has told me that his Twitter feed and email inbox have been “flooded” with expressions of support and appreciation for the former FBI director. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 10:46 am
While the US midterm elections are still a week away, democratic contests elsewhere in the world are ongoing or have just concluded. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 2:52 pm
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Aug. 6 regarding the deployment of federal officers to Portland, Oregon. [read post]
