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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...
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The Department of Justice's Inspector General released an interim report on the Department's handling of "known or suspected" terrorists who have entered the government's witness protection program. The...
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A common assumption in the debate about the appropriate legal regime for extra-AUMF threats is that the AUMF is cabined and cannot be extended to newly threatening Islamist terrorist threats. Yesterday’...
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The New York Times has a story about the problems of expanding CALEA to on peer-to-peer communications. The story discusses a Center for Democracy and Technology report on the topic by several experts. ...
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It's been a rough week for the Obama Administration. In addition to outrage over IRS targeting of conservative groups and continued conspiratorial rumblings about the Administration's response to the Ben...
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There's been a flurry of Lawfare posts on today's hearing, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. The video of the hearing can be viewed here...
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