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I am delighted to announce an important new hire by the Lawfare Institute: David Priess is coming on board as our Chief Operating Officer.
Many Lawfare readers already know David's work, on the site and elsewhere.
We are excited to announce, in plenty of time for the holidays, our new—and dramatically improved—Lawfare swag shop.
You want shirts? We've got lots of shirts, for women and men and everyone.
Onesies? We've got onesies.
News broke over the weekend that the FBI’s former general counsel, James Baker, was leaving the bureau and coming to Brookings and Lawfare. Here is the Brookings Institution statement on the subject:
Earlier today, Lawfare published an article that was significantly beneath its editorial standards. I take full responsibility for this decision and, on behalf of myself and Lawfare’s board of directors, wish to explain the circumstances of the decision to publish it and the steps we are taking to ensure that such a lapse does not happen again.
We are currently studying the problem of how to build a maximally useful Lawfare mobile app—and our tech team is looking to interview readers to figure out how people are using the site and what functionality people need. As we did when we built Lawfare's website, we are keen for reader involvement in the process to make sure the product we develop is as responsive to actual reader need as possible. If you are willing to be contacted by our tech folks for an interview, please fill out this short survey.
Lawfare is now accepting spring internship applications. For more details, check out the Brookings application announcement and apply here.
We've been getting a lot of requests for Lawfare merchandise—merch, as the cool kids call it—so we're issuing a new Lawfare t-shirt and a new Lawfare mug.
You know you want them.
It's been a while since we did a readership survey. It's not that we haven't cared what you think. We've just been busy.
But it's time to do it again. We've got big plans—plans for partnerships, plans for new services, and plans for further expansion of the site. We've also got a lot of new readers, and we want to make sure that we are both serving our core readership and serving the many folks who have discovered the site over the past year.
This morning, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine wrote a thoughtful profile of Lawfare: “How a Wonky National-Security Blog Hit the Big Time.” The piece reflects some of the wild year we’ve had at Lawfare, as our writers have grappled with what President Trump’s campaign, election, and administration mean for hard national security choices.
Lawfare would like to apologize for the delay in our military commissions coverage this week. As our readers know, we rely on transcripts provided by the Office of Military Commissions to provide our coverage. Unfortunately, the transcripts posted for this week’s hearings in the USS Cole case are only available for Monday and Wednesday, with the transcripts for Tuesday’s and Thursday’s hearings leading to 404 error pages.