Law Enforcement

Another curious filing by the Department of Justice should not be lost amid news about COVID-19. In yet another reversal in a case initiated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller,…

U.S. courts have been reluctant to extend the same protections they afford domestic informants to employees of American companies based abroad.

"There’s a grave threat to individual liberty, privacy, and racial justice. A balance needs to be struck. But it will not be struck by continuing to act lawlessly, which is to…

Will a recent inspector general report encourage the FBI to be more, not less, aggressive in the use of Type III assessments in counterterrorism cases without adequate constitutional…

It remains to be seen how this new clash will resolve itself, but the stakes have only increased for both sides.

Bob Bauer, Lisa Monaco, and Andrew Weissmann, with Ryan Goodman (moderator).

Editor’s note from Ryan Goodman: Just Security is publishing a mini-forum on a significant document being drafted by the United Nations Human Rights Committee concerning the…

What will the Justice Department do in response to what it's learned about the FBI’s flawed application to wiretap Carter Page?

William Barr has repeatedly abused his office as attorney general to provide personal and political protection for President Donald Trump at the expense of the integrity and credibility…

Critics of FISA on both the left and the right are seizing on the DOJ inspector general's report as an opportunity to significantly alter FISA.

Andrew Weissmann, former FBI General Counsel and a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office, writes about the Inspector General's report and proposes…

The ad hoc release of OLC opinions raises more fundamental questions about the role of the OLC and the public’s right to know how the executive branch interprets the law.