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I've only just now had a chance to take a look at the memorandum from SecDef Hagel reorganizing DoD structures that was issued in December 2013. He're's a copy. For those following along, the big news ...
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Directors from five intelligence agencies appeared yesterday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Although nothing earth-shattering was revealed at the public hearing, there were some tes...
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I don't normally write a post noting departures from our masthead. Our student contributors come and go with the turn of the seasons. They write for a while and then take clerkships, go to law firms, or ...
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That's the gist of today's ruling in this terrorism case, which is now pending in the Northern District of Illinois. The order opens as follows:
Defendant Adel Daoud is charged with attempting to use ...
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During my senior year of high school, the Thai military staged a coup d’état to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. I remember tanks rolling past my house in Bangkok, and BBC a...
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In his speech earlier this month, President Obama announced interim changes to the handling of bulk telephony metadata---ones that he would seek to implement immediately, and that would not call for legi...
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This one will get underway at 10:00, too. The Attorney General will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee; we'll post his testimony when it becomes available.
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The hearing will get underway at 10:00 a.m.. Video will be available via C-SPAN and other outlets.
The Director of National Intelligence will testify; his written statement can be found here.
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Last night, President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address. You can find the full video here. The speech focused on a strong call of action and a promise to go it alone if Congress doesn’t adva...
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I am not sure why this is a big deal, my knowledge of the British legal system being less than fulsome, but a British barrister has written a legal opinion calling into question large swaths of surveilla...
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Judging by Daphne Eviatar's account over at Just Security and Charlie Savage's at the New York Times, it was a pretty scripted and brief (nineteen minutes of open session) affair.
Thus far, the Periodic...
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. . . nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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President Obama, in the State of the Union address tonight, made the following remarks:
Tonight, because of the extraordinary troops and civilians who risk and lay down their lives to keep us free, the U...
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We’ll start with global developments:
In Egypt, General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, who has ruled the country since the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-backed (and democratically elected) Mohammad Morsi, has tak...
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Today, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi.
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Speaking of agency general counsels (as I did in my post yesterday morning about the appointment of Jim Baker as FBI General Counsel), many foreign governments are wondering when President Obama will nom...
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Late last year, as one of the fall outs from the Snowden disclosures, the NSA announced its intention to fill a completely new office -- a civil liberties and privacy officer who would serve as a direct ...
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An innovative thinker, David McMahon, of SecDev sent me a fascinating piece the other day entitled Think Big on Cyber. The folks at SecDev do some of the most cutting edge security work I know and they ...
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What harm has Edward Snowden done to his country?
When Snowden asserts that the National Security Agency listens to encrypted Russian diplomatic traffic, it takes the Russians about twenty minutes to sh...
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I have an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal entitled "This Other Deal With Iran Is Obsolete" in which I argue that the current discussions between the US and Iran to reach a permanent agreement regard...
