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On December 19, my Brookings colleague Michael O'Hanlon hosted a remarkable event featuring General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) and Kristina Talbert-Slagle of the Yale Global Health Research Institute disc...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted President Obama’s invitation to come to the States. Although a date has yet to be confirmed, the meeting serves as a clear indicator of an attempt to mend an ...
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Unless you've been hiding under a rock or are in an undisclosed location, you've likely heard about former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates's soon-to-be-published memoir, Duty. Don't miss Dr.
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Benjamin Wittes, in his post Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part IV, questioned Recommendation #14 of the Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Commu...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently holding a hearing regarding several of President Obama's nominations, which include that of John Carlin, nominated for the position of Assistant Attorney Gener...
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Two more developments in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal before the D.C. Circuit.
On December 30, the government filed its opposition to the detainees' motion for an order directing the...
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In spite of the weather, the Senate had enough senators present on Monday evening to confirm Janet Yellen as the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Colleen LaRose, a.k.a. "Jihad Jane," was sentenced t...
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Robin Simcox of the Henry Jackson Society in Britain writes in with the following thoughts on the difficulties of prosecuting terrorist suspects, a subject which he covered in this recent report:
Preside...
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Two important releases showed up on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Tumblr on Friday.
First, the General Counsel for the ODNI, Bob Litt, responded to the New York Times Edward Snow...
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This must read exerpt from John Rizzo's forthcoming book bears the provocative title, "I Could Have Stopped Waterboarding Before It Happened." It's a fascinating insider account from the 30-year veteran...
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Jim Geraghty of National Review's "Morning Jolt" has this useful summary of Snowden disclosures that are more related to disclosing foreign surveillance than to disclosing domestic US activity by the NSA...
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Three days of peace talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders have not yielded any breakthroughs, but Secretary of State John Kerry says that he is "comfortable that the major choices are on the table,"...
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Chapter V of the Review Group report turns to what we might call the problem of Angela Merkel. It's not about what the legal authorities to spy should look like. It's about what policy structures should ...
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Closing out our discussion of the Review Group recommendations in Chapter IV, let's consider the latter two recommendations of the chapter: Recommendations #14 and #15.
Recommendation #14 is, to me anyw...
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Violence in Iraq in 2013 was worse than at any time since 2008 – when Iraq was still in the throes of its all-out civil war that had led to over 100,000 deaths. And Iraq’s problems are getting worse, not...
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Reviewing the Reviewers: The President's Review Group report continues to inspire debate. Carrie Cordero gave a thoughtful three-part analysis of the Report: Part I looked at the Review Group's process ...
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No big surprise here: the government, in the D.D.C., and the ACLU, in the S.D.N.Y., have filed their notices of appeal in two cases, Klayman v.
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Today, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit rejected an important Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group had sought disclosure of a 2010 ...
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What follows is the last in a short, three-post assessment of selected aspects of the surveillance review group report. In this post, I highlight what is, in my view, the most productive of the review gr...
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More from Snowden’s Treasure Trove: apparently, the NSA is trying to build a quantum computer “that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government r...
