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I spent the day in a hotel in Edina, Minnesota cavorting with robots. The occasion was a conference put on by a group called Robotics Alley, which is a Minnesota-based "initiative . . . meant to spur pub...
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The NRC has issued a Report on vulnerability in the U.S. electric power delivery system. (A downloadable copy can be found here.) I have only skimmed the Report, but it covers vulnerabilities not only f...
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While the Senate was making a feint at legislation yesterday, far more significant cyber news was disclosed. According to the Washington Post President Obama has signed a new Presidential Policy Directi...
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As I noted, yesterday the Senate returned, briefly to consideration of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. The rather half-hearted effort (I think that's a fair characterization) ended as was inevitable -- i...
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This is the latest piece in the interview series I have done over the last few months with terrorism and regional experts about non-legal issues of pertinence to Lawfare readers.
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I spent a flight out to Minnesota yesterday reflecting on Jack's and Trevor's discussion over the weekend of Obama's first term, his coming second term, the Bush administration, and the now-will-never-be...
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John McLaughlin, who was Deputy Director of the CIA from 2000-2004, has a nice essay in FP on how the patterns of terrorism we face today differ from the ones that prevailed in the years after 9/11. Man...
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Today the DOJ and SEC released a joint Resource Guide to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. One difficulty with complying with the sometimes-maddeningly-indeterminate FCPA is that there are very few jud...
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Attorneys for Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---all members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services---have filed an amicus brief in support of the government in Hedges v.
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Reuters informs us that Ayman al-Zawahri has released a document describing Al Qaeda’s desire to establish an Islamic caliphate and instructing Muslims to live according to Sharia law.
Khalid Aldawsari,...
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As I noted yesterday, Senator Reid has announced that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 will return to the floor for consideration sometime before Thanksgiving (possibly as early as tomorrow). According to...
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In October, when our most recent motions hearing concluded in United States v.
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I'm not really an Iran person, and I don't have strong feelings about the right or wrong way to handle the Iranian nuclear program. But I nonetheless enjoyed---and found rather informative---this Truman ...
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In remarks today on the Floor, Senator Reid promised that the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill would return to the floor before Thanksgiving. Here is the rough transcript of what he said:
WE'RE GOIN...
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I am making a decision, here and now, not to include a single story about General Petraeus’s---or General Allen’s---love life in my roundups. All those who are interested in the saucy details are welcome...
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On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Stuxnet, the virus that targeted Iran's uranium enrichment program and that is generally thought to have been created jointly by the United States and Isr...
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On Monday, October 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Clapper v. Amnesty International, which poses the question whether a group of human rights organizations, lawyers, activists, and journalis...
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While I am sure we differ in emphasis and details, I agree with the thrust of Trevor’s latest post. As I argued in my last two books, the early Bush administration approach to presidential power was, in...
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I appreciate Jack's follow-up post on the larger picture of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies and their points of continuity with the Bush administration (though only the late Bush, as...
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When I wrote on Friday about the “basic counterterrorism policies that Obama continued, with tweaks, from the late Bush administration,” I meant to refer only to policies that “Obama continued” from the ...
