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22 Apr 2017, 7:58 am by Quinta Jurecic
Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, and Benjamin Wittes posted the Lawfare Readership Survey. [read post]
15 Apr 2017, 7:00 am by Jordan Brunner
And the Rational Security gang discussed the airstrikes and more in the “Battle to the Death Watch” Edition of the podcast, which Benjamin Wittes posted: Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes posted about the next Hoover Book Soiree, where Ben will join Russell Miller and Ralf Poscher to discuss a new book of essays, Privacy & Power: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the Shadow of the NSA-Affair. [read post]
25 Mar 2017, 4:55 am by Jordan Brunner
Before the hearing, Benjamin Wittes explained how we should listen to Comey’s testimony on Monday. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 11:16 am by Jordan Brunner
Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, and Quinta Jurecic offered a guide for those perplexed about HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes’s statements yesterday. [read post]
18 Mar 2017, 5:42 am by Jordan Brunner
Alex Loomis recounted the presentation of witnesses who collected and were custodians of evidence from the Cole bombing at the 3/13 session of this week’s military commissions, while Nora Ellingsen discussed the continued testimony on the Cole bombing in her coverage of the 3/14 session. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 12:09 pm by Jordan Brunner
Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic [read post]
4 Mar 2017, 4:34 am by Benjamin Wittes
The Rational Security gang discussed the mysterious Kislyak and the Sessions saga, among other things, on “The Kislyak of Death” Edition of the podcast, which Benjamin Wittes posted: As the Trump administration tried to deflect questions about Russia connections, and as Sessions recused himself from any executive branch investigations into those connections, Susan Hennessey and Helen Murillo described the rules of congressional investigations and President… [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 12:21 pm by Jordan Brunner
The New York Times tells us that after facing a bipartisan firestorm of criticism due to revelations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with and spoke to the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, twice during the election, he has agreed to recuse himself from investigations involving potentially improper contact between Trump associates and Russian officials. [read post]
18 Feb 2017, 4:37 am by Jordan Brunner
Nora Ellingsen recounted ISIL prosecutions in courts that stretched from Arizona to Florida. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 12:21 pm by Jordan Brunner
Benjamin Wittes highlighted another instance of President Trump tweeting about an article that he most likely didn’t read. [read post]
11 Feb 2017, 4:53 am by Jordan Brunner
Nora Ellingsen delved into the empirical data on who terrorists are and how they relate to assumptions in Trump’s refugee executive order. [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 5:33 am by Jordan Brunner
Turning to terrorism, Nora Ellingsen examined the terrorism prosecutions of co-conspirators Akhror Saidakhmetov and Abdulrasul Juraboev, along with Justin Kaliebe and Emanuel L. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 11:15 am by Jordan Brunner
Benjamin Wittes dissected the malevolence and legal incompetence behind Trump’s refugee executive order. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 6:18 am by Jordan Brunner
Nora Ellingsen recounted how this week’s military commission pre-trial hearings were overshadowed by defense attorney Cheryl Bormann’s broken arm, while Quinta flagged Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins’ statement on the hearings. [read post]
21 Jan 2017, 7:00 am by Jordan Brunner
As Friday neared, President Obama chose as one of his last acts the commutation of her sentence, which Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey praised, and from which Paul Rosenzweig dissented. [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 6:08 am by Quinta Jurecic
Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, and Quinta Jurecic laid out their point of view on the documents and why Lawfare chose not to publish them. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 12:45 pm by Helen Klein Murillo
Nora Ellingsen reported on recent international and domestic terrorism prosecutions. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 7:00 am by Zachary Burdette
Nora Ellingsen flagged recent material support charges. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 12:56 pm by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic
Syrian government forces have maintained pressure on rebel fighters in Aleppo following the regime’s victory in a major operation yesterday, Reuters reports. [read post]
19 Nov 2016, 7:16 am by Zachary Burdette
Nora Ellingsen and Benjamin Wittes revisited their call for President Obama to visit Garden City, Kansas, adding that President-elect Trump should accompany him. [read post]