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An administration national security official writes in with the following thoughts on the furor over the warrant application against James Rosen of Fox News:
There is a great deal of hyperventilation---m...
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William P. Barr (former Attorney General), Jamie S. Gorelick (former Deputy AG), and Kenneth L. Wainstein (former Assistant AG for National Security) have this Times op-ed on the AP subpoena controversy....
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Ben and Bobby will be testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee on "Protecting U.S. Citizens' Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror" at 10 am tomorrow at 2141 Rayburn House Office Bui...
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On Thursday, President Obama will be giving a major address on national security and counterterrorism, styled as a companion to the 2009 National Archives address. That 2009 speech adopted a pragmatic a...
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When I wrote, last week, about the insecurity of Gmail, I was intending to gently mock the idea that the CIA might have such a bad sense of how Gmail works (and the Terms of Service under which it is pro...
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Editor's Note: below you'll find a fourth and final post in our series by David Kris, on possible reforms to surveillance statutes.
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My Brookings colleague Suzanne Maloney today launched a blog that will interest a lot of Lawfare readers.
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As Jack posted yesterday---and as everyone is buzzing about---President Obama will give a major counterterrorism speech on Thursday at the National Defense University.
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A few years ago I wrote an op-ed that gave these reasons (among others) why the USG should not prosecute Julian Assange for the WikiLeaks disclosures of State Department cables:
A conviction [of Assange]...
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I meant to post on this last week and clean forgot until I heard a bit of it on CSPAN radio yesterday. The Heritage Foundation held this event on detainee policy featuring all four people who have held t...
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Editor's Note: below you'll find the third in a series of posts by David Kris on surveillance reform.
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Editor's Note: this is the second in a series of four posts by David Kris, on large-scale surveillance reform.
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The President will give a speech on counterterrorism at the National Defense University on Thursday, reports the WP:
A White House official, speaking Saturday on the condition of anonymity to describe th...
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On the Lawfare menu this week was a lot of discussion of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, docket updates in a number of related court cases, detention matters, surveillance law, two ...
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Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of four posts, in which David S. Kris discusses the possibility of wide-ranging reform to U.S. surveillance law.
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The dictionary defines a "kris" as "a Malayan and Indonesian stabbing or slashing knife with a scalloped edge." On this site, however, The Way of the Kris is not some new Mark Mazzetti book about Obama a...
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Melissa Hathaway has a new essay that argues for putting cybersecurity and related issues on the G20 agenda:
To counteract these [cybersecurity] risks, some governments and businesses are turning to inte...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with these thoughts on the AP subpoenas controversy and background law:
In light ...
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Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled "Eyes in the Sky: the Domestic Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems." The four-witness panel included two experts familiar to Lawfare reade...
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Peter Margulies, of Roger Williams School of Law, writes in with these comments on law, ethics, and the hunger strike ongoing at Guantanamo:
The hunger strike at Guantanamo has put bioethics on the front...
