Lev Sugarman
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare’s daily roundup of national-security news and opinions. → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare’s daily roundup of national-security news and opinions. → Read More
Full Text of the Mueller Report's Executive Summaries
Editor’s Note: Below are the executive summaries of the two volumes of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report. Volume I deals with links between Russia and the Trump campaign, while Volume II deals with potential obstruction of justice by President Trump. This article is available in audio format on the Lawfare Podcast: Special Edition: → Read More
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. → Read More
Document: Justice Department Did Not Rely on Whitaker in FISA Matters, FISC Says
On Thursday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued an order stating that the government "has not relied on any action taken by [former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker] in any submission to the court." The order, issued by Judge Rosemary Collyer, denied attorney Thomas C. Goldstein's motion to file an amicus curiae brief challenging Whitaker's authority to → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare's weekday roundup of national security news and opinions. → Read More
Document: ICC Denies Request for Afghanistan Investigation
On Friday, a panel of three International Criminal Court judges rejected the request of the court's Prosecutor to investigate "the situation" in Afghanistan, including alleged war crimes committed by the U.S. military and CIA. → Read More
Document: Justice Department White Paper on the Cloud Act
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice released a white paper on the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, or Cloud Act, which was enacted in March 2018. The white paper, entitled “Promoting Public Safety, Privacy, and the Rule of Law Around the World: The Purpose and Impact of the CLOUD Act,” is available here and below. → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare's weekday roundup of national security news and opinions. → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare's weekday roundup of national security news and opinions. → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare's weekday roundup of national security news and opinions. → Read More
Document: Judge Halts Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy
On Monday, Judge Richard Seeborg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injuction of the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols requiring non-Mexican migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. to be deported to Mexico while their request is processed. The injuction, issued in Innovation Law Lab et al, v. Nielsen, is → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare's weekday roundup of national security news and opinions. → Read More
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare's weekday roundup of national security news and opinions. → Read More
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare's weekday roundup of national security news and opinions. → Read More
Document: Former Military and Intelligence Officials Letter on 5G Risks
In a letter released Wednesday, six former combatant commanders and intelligence chiefs outlined “grave concerns” about risks posed by Chinese-developed 5G networks, including espionage, constraints on U.S. military operations, and threats to democracy and human rights. The letter is available here and below. → Read More
Documents: Government Motions to Dismiss Border Emergency Lawsuits
On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed motions to dismiss in two lawsuits challenging President Trump’s use of a national emergency declaration to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The suits, Center for Biological Diversity v. Trump and Alvarez v. Trump, were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia immediately following Trump’s Feb. 15 emergency → Read More
Document: Woman Carrying Malware Charged With Illegally Entering Mar-A-Lago
According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Secret Service agents at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida arrested a woman who attempted to enter the resort carrying two Chinese passports along with four cell phones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive containing malware. The woman, → Read More
Document: House Letter to Barr Seeking Full Mueller Report
Six Democratic House committee chairs have sent a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr, following up on their previous request that the Justice Department to provide Congress Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report. The letter, available here and below, responded to two letters from Barr on the issue: his Mar. → Read More