The Censorship Machine: Silencing the National Security Workforce
A campaign of public retaliation and personal incentives has taught current and former public servants…
A History of LGBT Officers & the Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA spent seven decades moving from purging LGBT officers to embracing them—until the second…
Lawfare Daily: Trans and Indispensable in the Trump White House
Former CIA officer Julia Curlee discusses the purge of the NSC in the first 70 days…
Closing the Front Door: The Case for DOJ’s Bulk Data Security Program
No one hacked us. Adversaries are buying U.S. troops’ location data on the open market.…
Rational Security: The “Live from Mom’s Basement” Edition
Scott Anderson, Natalie Orpett, and Ariane Tabatabai talked through the week’s big national security news…
Lawfare Daily: How Our Growing Software Dependence Threatens National Security
Exploring the software understanding gap.
What They Want to Hear: The Politicization of U.S. Intelligence
A campaign of firings and clearance revocations is teaching the intelligence community that silence is…
When Commercial Satellites Become Wartime Intelligence
Commercial satellite imagery now serves accountability and military operations, but the law has not caught…
Everything Trump’s Election Speech Did Not Prove
After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was…