Susan Hennessey
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What’s at Stake in the Austin Waiver
The vote on whether to grant General Austin a waiver is a vote on whether the waiver will be a real constraint in the future. → Read More
How Did a Trump Loyalist Come to Be Named NSA General Counsel—And What Should Biden Do About It?
Trump political appointee Michael Ellis has been named to an important career position. Congress should investigate the suspicious circumstances of the selection, and the Biden transition should think carefully about what to do on Jan. 20. → Read More
The Halkbank Case Should Be a Very Big Deal
There are no plausible benign explanations for Trump’s conduct here. Even three days before the election, people should care. → Read More
Trump is going out of his way to blow off the Hatch Act this week
The GOP convention is exactly what norms against politicking in office are meant to prevent. → Read More
Can Congress Work Together to Calm the Country?
As demonstrations involving both peaceful protestors and violent provocateurs and looters continue in major cities around the country, President Trump has responded with inflammatory and divisive rhetoric. On Monday, he criticized and insulted governors for not using more force. → Read More
An Ugly Day for the Justice Department
The Justice Department makes an unfathomably bad argument in dismissing the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. → Read More
We Wrote a Book: 'Unmaking the Presidency'
The book we published today began with a series of Lawfare posts. → Read More
The Report, Episode Fourteen: The Fixer Flips
Today, we released the fourteenth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report. → Read More
The Report: Episode Nine: Honest Loyalty
Today, we released the ninth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which tells the story Robert Mueller lays out in his nearly 500-page report. → Read More
So You Want to Impeach the President
What to include—and what not to include—in articles of impeachment. → Read More
The Report, Episode Eight: The End of the Beginning
Today, we released the eighth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which tells the story Robert S. Mueller lays out in his famous 448-page document. This episode begins our coverage of Volume II of the Mueller report, on the president's effort to obstruct the investigation. → Read More
The Report, Episode Seven: Charging Decisions
Today, we released the seventh episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report. This episode covers the Special Counsel’s charging decisions—which individuals Mueller decides to prosecute, whose prosecutions and declines, and the reasons for his decisions. → Read More
The Report, Episode Five: Russian Overtures
Today, we released the fifth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which tells the story Robert S. Mueller lays out in his famous 448-page document. → Read More
The Report, Episode Four: A Tale of Two Trump Towers
The story of the ill-starred effort to build a Trump-branded skyscraper in Moscow and the Trump campaign’s meeting in New York with Russians promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. → Read More
The Report, Episode Three: The Campaign and the Leaks
Trump campaign officials engaged with the Russian social media manipulation operation as unwitting dupes. But the story of the Trump campaign’s involvement with the GRU email hacking operation is more complicated. → Read More
The Report, Episode 2: Hack, Dump, Divide
The story of the Russian hacking operation, the stealing of documents and emails from the DNC, DCCC and figures associated with the Clinton campaign, and the leaks of the stolen materials timed to impact the U.S. election. → Read More
Introducing “The Report”: A Podcast Series from
A serialized narrative podcast that tells the story contained in Robert Mueller’s 448-page document. → Read More
Announcing a New Lawfare Podcast Series: The Report
We are excited to announce a new project we’ve been working on for the past few weeks here at Lawfare. We are launching a new podcast documentary series on the Mueller Report. Called, “The Report,” it will tell the story of what is actually in the Special Counsel’s report, over a number of narrative episodes featuring the extended family of Lawfare analysts and many of the → Read More
The Mueller Report Demands an Impeachment Inquiry
The options for checking a president who abuses his power to the degree that Trump has are functionally impeachment proceedings or nothing.e → Read More
What to Make of Bill Barr’s Letter
Barr’s letter contains good news for the president, but it also raises ominous questions that only Mueller’s report can answer. → Read More