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From Stars and Stripes:
If “Guantanamo Prisoners to Receive GI Bill Benefits” sounds like a joke… that’s because it is.
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Paul and Ritika have already linked to the Mandiant report yesterday on the Chinese People's Liberation Army cyber espionage group known as Unit 61398. It's a very impressive document. Here is the execu...
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As the co-creator of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown and the publisher (though not the baker) of this drone strike cake, I should perhaps check myself before cringing at other people's drone humor. But I can...
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Lots going on after the long weekend.
Let’s begin with the big, bad Chinese.
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Apropos of our discussion last week about "Taming the Cyber Dragon" today's New York Times has an extensive report on how China's army is directly linked to hacking inside the United States. For those w...
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Back on December 11, 2012, I posted a special Readings page of links to articles, reports and other materials on autonomous weapon systems and their regulation. It is updated periodically; I've just add...
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One of the most notable challenges in dealing with cybersecurity is the difficulty of adequately conveying the scope and size of cyberspace. It's easy to say that there are nearly 2.5 billion internet u...
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Over at the emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has done a handy side-by-side of Attorney General Holder's Northwestern speech and the leaked White Paper.
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department national security official, writes in with the following thoughts on the FISA Court and its lessons for ...
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The recent controversy about the Justice Department White Paper and the closely related Senate confirmation hearings for CIA director-nominee John Brennan have raised the profile of congressional intelli...
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Here's an update on the status of Section 11 of the STOCK Act, the law enacted last year that would have required 28,000 senior executive officials (and senior military officers) to post their financial ...
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Further to Jack's post yesterday on the politics of drones versus enhanced interrogation, and my post earlier in the week about Peter Baker's article about the mounting criticism of the Obama Administrat...
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Fawzia Koofi (website, Twitter) is an Afghan Member of Parliament and Vice President of the Afghan National Assembly. She is also running for President of Afghanistan in the planned April 2014 elections,...
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While Ben has often mocked the New York Times for its opinions, the Washington Post has mostly escaped our attention. To a large degree this reflects the level-headedness of its opinions. So when it sl...
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Voice of America Urdu produces a weekly webcast called "Access Point with Ayesha Tanzeem," which, this week, focused on U.S. drone policy and the legality of targeted killing in light of President Obama'...
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Yes: Senate Republicans took an unprecedented step yesterday in preventing the invocation of cloture on their former colleague Chuck Hagel's nomination to be the Secretary of Defense.
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In an interview last weekend, Congressman Mike Rogers, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, gave unambiguous acknowledgment of CIA involvement in drone strikes. The ACLU attached the interv...
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They are available here. Lots of interesting stuff on a first quick read, but two thing stand out. First, in response to the question “Could the Administration carry out drone strikes inside the United...
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Via this thoughtful essay by Pejman Yousefzadeh, I learned about this recent CNN interview by Candy Crowley of former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Gates notes his support for drone strikes (he cal...
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The flourishing market in zero-day vulnerabilities is, as these two recent scary stories indicate, a major cybersecurity challenge. Herb Lin, the chief scientist at the Computer Science and Telecommunic...
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