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Over at Security States, I have a post entitled "When Companies Are Hacked, Customers Bear the Brunt.
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Week three of the Shutdown. Former SecDef Leon Panetta criticized the Obama Administration's handling of furloughs of civilians at the Defense Department and within the intelligence community, as Carlo M...
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In July, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court undertook to collect more detailed statistics than those required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Among other things, the latter calls ...
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As a short follow up to Ben's post about the editorial judgment of the Washington Post, I am reminded of what the New York Times Public Editor, Byron Calame said about the SWIFT disclosures, in an opinio...
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The Washington Post this morning has the latest Snowden-leaked document story: "The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging...
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That's the gist of this afternoon's AP wire report, which just ran in the Washington Post:
WASHINGTON — After a weeklong interrogation aboard a U.S. warship, a Libyan al-Qaida suspect is now in New Yor...
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Over at Security States, I have this piece up, about the proliferation of city- and state-operated surveillance technologies---and the need to pair collection rules for these technologies with effective...
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Let's start with the domestic developments:
A dry-ice bomb exploded in a men's bathroom at Los Angeles International Airport last night.
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Don't forget to register for this year's event, scheduled for October 31-November 1 at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington.
Here are all the details, including the agenda and list of speakers.
23rd Annual Re...
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My colleague at The George Washington University Law School, Lori Fossum, has just published a Cyber Conflict Bibliography. For those interested in cybersecurity (and particularly cyber warfare) it is a...
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In response to the government shutdown at home, President Obama decided last week to cancel his planned participation in a series of Asian and Pacific summits.
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Ashley Deeks (UVA and Lawfare) has posted a book chapter to SSRN, "Domestic Humanitarian Law: Developing the Law of War in Domestic Courts," which will appear in D. Jinks, J. Maogoto, S. Solomon (eds.), ...
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Mary DeRosa and Marty Lederman, both of whom were senior national security lawyers in the Obama administration, have a helpful if somewhat hopeful post at Just Security on the significance of the recent ...
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Bruce Riedel, Director of the Intelligence Project, hosted Matt Apuzzo at the Brookings Institution for a discussion of his new book “Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s ...
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UVA's (and Lawfare's own) Ashley Deeks has posted a new article to SSRN, "The Observer Effect: National Security Litigation, Policy Changes, and Judicial Deference," forthcoming (November 2013) in Fordha...
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Here is a quick update in New York Times v. Department of Justice. That's the Second Circuit case regarding the DOJ's responses to Freedom of Information Act requests, filed by the New York Times and Am...
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One of the most significant questions in cyberspace is the long term governance of the domain. For years the United States has had an influential role in that governance (mostly, in my view, to the bene...
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The big news heading into this week was that the U.S. conducted two nearly-simultaneous raids in Africa.
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Politico's Josh Gerstein reports:
A federal judge has rejected an attempt by defense lawyers to challenge the Obama administration's decision to hold alleged Al Qaeda member Abu Anas Al-Libi aboard a U.S...
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On a technical level, building secure software is really hard---but that's an argument for, not against, an intelligently designed liability regime.
