Nearly four and a half years after the SolarWinds breach, the core policy change by the Biden administration to prevent a future breach from happening has not been implemented. Nick Leiserson discusses what may be causing this failure to change acquisition regulations.

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F5, SolarWinds, and the Lethargy of the FAR Council

Stopping procurement regulation vaporware is key for the U.S. government to see meaningful gains from security-by-demand.

Today at 4 pm ET, watch Natalie Orpett, Roger Parloff and James Pearce a judge dismissing the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James, ruling that Lindsey Halligan was not properly appointed to served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. https://youtube.com/live/XxySL8HTZMQ?feature=share

Does the president have the constitutional authority to deploy active-duty forces domestically, free from the constraints of the Posse Comitatus Act? If and when the Supreme Court considers this question, the answer “should be an emphatic ‘no,’” writes Christopher Mirasola.

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Confronting the Protective Power

The president’s theory of constitutional authority to deploy active-duty troops is more dangerous than the government’s briefing suggests.