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Afghanistan: A Distant War Robert Nickelsberg; Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson; Introduction by Ahmad Nader Nadery Prestel U
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Let's start with nuclear news: Iran and six world powers---United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany---have completed an interim deal under which Tehran will temporarily slow its nuclear ...
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On Friday, President Obama is scheduled to announce his response to his Review Group on NSA matters, whose report I have been evaluating in this series of posts. The Review Group report covers a huge ran...
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Who will run cyberspace? It’s one of the most important questions in the world today. Yet few outside a narrow group of policy wonks, lawyers, technologists, and international bureaucrats are paying a...
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I just came across this excellent article, "Tinker, Tailor, Leaker, Spy: The Future Costs of Mass Leaks," by David V.
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The last few days have seen a flurry of diplomatic and law enforcement activity in both the United States and India that may bring the month-long Khobragade controversy to an end. In this post, I try to...
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We come, at endlessly-long last, to the final set of recommendations in the Review Group report: the recommendations in Chapter VIII, which deal with "Protecting What We Do Collect."
I tend to agree wit...
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The Syria conflict hasn’t really stayed in Syria. The trickle of Sunni jihadists traveling to Syria to fight quickly became a flood, with their numbers rapidly surpassing those in past wars, the anti-Sov...
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So ...
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Although this week’s most noteworthy leaks came out of the New Jersey Governor’s office, Lawfare is still analyzing the ripples of earlier federal disclosures.
Raffaela pointed us to two statements out ...
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Did the government reveal the presence of US military advisors in Somalia in order to beat the Guardian or some other Snowden outlet to the punch?
Earlier today, Jack posted about the likelihood that th...
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Chapter VII of the Review Group report is, for the most part, vaporous.
It deals with, as its title puts it, "Global Communications Technology: Promoting Prosperity, Security, and Openness in a Networke...
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The Washington Post reports that Senator Paul “plans to introduce legislation to repeal the use-of-force resolution that paved the way for the Iraq war,” and notes that President Obama supports the repea...
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President Obama seems to be getting closer to announcing reforms to the NSA. There have been months of discussions in and out of the White House regarding reforms to the intelligence agency. Yesterday, t...
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One hears that the worst of the Snowden documents (from the perspective of the USG) have not yet been released, and one wonders what that might mean. Yesterday’s story that “most of the documents he too...
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FBI Director Jim Comey spoke out today against the Review Group recommendations for judicial review of national security letters, reports the New York Times:
James B.
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I have a suggestion for solving nearly all of NSA’s problems: A click-through agreement.
A peculiarity of the NSA data collection controversy is that the US public, we are told, is outraged by NSA activ...
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On Monday, the Departments of Justice and State filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit urging affirmance of a district court's dismissal of an ATS/TVPA lawsuit filed against former Mexican President...
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Chapter VI of the Review Group Report deals with proposed organizational changes at NSA, in the executive branch more broadly, and in the FISA court system. These changes are a pretty mixed bag. Some see...
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The detainee in question is Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid.
