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I posted a link earlier this week to a story from NBC about getting hacked in Russia. Turns out at least one security researcher thinks that the story was overstated. His word, is "fabricated" -- and a...
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Pass the smelling salts! They're using espionage on our people for their strategic purposes.
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That is the title of this press release by Senator Jeff Merkley, announcing a resolution “calling for Congress to have a role in approving any further United States military involvement in Afghanistan af...
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The Sochi Olympics begin today. While you’re all intimately familiar with the dire living conditions, the reporting difficulties, and the stray dogs, maintaining security is no easy feat. Rep.
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David Ignatius agrees with me, though he probably doesn't know it :-). As I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Ignatius thinks that the paradoxical and unfortunate result of the Snowden disclosures may ...
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That's the word from Guantanamo. We hope to have an updated schedule for the case soon; it looks like the next pre-trial session will be convened in April.
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Over at the Cyborgology blog, a woman named Whitney Erin Boesel has a thoughtful write-up of the Berkman Center event I spoke at the other day---and on which I posted my own thoughts here. Here's her las...
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Charges against detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi were today referred to a military commission. Al Darbi, a Saudi citizen and alleged brother-in-law of 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar, has been...
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My money is on the Russians. NBC reports being hacked before the cup of coffee is served in Sochi:
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Here's his response, published at Just Security, to my post this morning about legal density and NSA:
Over at Lawfare, Ben Wittes is making excuses for the intelligence officials who’ve been saying th...
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There isn’t much consensus anywhere on NSA-related issues---from Edward Snowden to the agency’s surveillance programs themselves.
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Ordinarily, on a day like today, yours truly would remind the Interwebs’ military commission-watchers of a pretrial hearing, next week, in the 9/11 case. Usually I would make a plug for Lawfare’s covera...
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Last week, DNI Clapper appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to give his annual World Wide Threat Assessment. Once again cyber leads the list of most significant threats -- ahead o...
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An old friend of mine, a mathematician at an elite college, told me some time back that---while still a student---he or she had done some work for NSA and been greatly relieved by the strict assurance gi...
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That's the word from The Washington Post.
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I see so many interesting articles every day, that I thought I'd start a new "featurette" that I'm calling Bits and Bytes. This will be a short compilation of links to things I've seen that might intere...
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Strategika, a Hoover Institution online journal edited by Victor Davis Hanson, has published a symposium on whether armed drones are strategically something new, or just an incremental step forward in re...
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The New York Times is reporting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been engaged in secret contacts with the Taliban, which might help to explain Karzai's continued refusal to sign a long-term securit...
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Here are two quite recent papers, both of obvious interest to Lawfare readers. The first, entitled "Drones: the Power to Kill," was penned by former Attorney Alberto Gonzales. Among other things, Gonza...
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Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni...
