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Scott Shane raises important questions in his article today about transparency and offensive U.S. cyber capabilities and operations. There are lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience with respect...
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Washingtonian writer and respected, strict-constructionist Smackdown judge Shane Harris has this piece on last Sunday's Main Event. Here's how it begins:
Sunday was a great day for flying. Flying drones...
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Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal have this must-read article about the degree to which Pakistanis give the United States its consent for drone strikes. Ben, Ken, and...
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Carrie Johnson had this piece about the Smackdown on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday. It begins: National Security Experts Go Rogue For 'Drone Smackdown'
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That's the report from James Connell III, a lawyer for 9/11 defendant Ammar al Baluchi. Connell's statement provides, in full:
9/11 prosecution retreats from presumptive classification
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BBC News reports that the European Court of Human Rights has agreed to the extradition of Abu Hamza---the Muslim cleric accused of planning a terrorist training camp in the United States---as well as fou...
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John Villasenor---a Brookings colleague who is also a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA---has done a lot of policy work on domestic drone use. He writes in with the following thoughts on the Sm...
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Petitioners yesterday filed supplementary declarations and exhibits in Al Maqaleh, better known as the after-Boumediene-does-Guantanamo-habeas-jurisdiction-run-to-Bagram case.
During a hearing on the go...
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In response to my post last night about the countermeasure I wish I'd thought of, Ben asked me if it would really be effective. Specifically, he asked:
How could you have fried the kids' computer and An...
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Well, as you might imagine, our defeat at the hands of the Wittes cyberwarriors has had me doing some thinking. In truth, we actually considered the possibility of cyber war but rejected it as beyond ou...
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As DCist reported, the FAA called Adam Eidinger, owner of the missing-but-now-found drone in Washington, D.C. The agency also wrote him an email on the same day Eidinger tweeted that his drone had been l...
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Over at NPR, Leila Fadel reported on All Things Considered that pro-government militiamen warned U.S. government officials in Bengazi that security was deteriorating, and that they should scale back thei...
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Here's an opportunity for law students to intern at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School's Liberty and National Security Program. The Brennan Center emails: We are looking for outstanding...
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Apparently, official DC is in a crisis over cybersecurity and drones, very particular drones, very, very special and particular drones. Who says Lawfare does not move the world of policy? Stewart Baker ...
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I am certain that all Lawfare readers will savor every single word of my lengthy post on Operation Stux2bu. But just in case you don't reach the bottom, I want to flag this absolutely authentic OLC opini...
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Here's the video of all four rounds of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown. It's a crude cut, and I had to edit it very quickly. But anyone who doubts that the era of consumer drones---and consumer cyber-securit...
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If you followed the Drone Smackdown on Twitter, you already know the results. For the rest of you, victory is mine.
