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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Stewart Baker wonders how much President Obama could get done with an executive order on cybersecurity---now that the legislation has failed.
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The day's lead news story is, of course, the horrific shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The alleged gunman, the New York Times reports, was Wade Michael Page, a U.S. army veteran. Details surrounding the...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins gave the following brief remarks over the weekend in Chicago. If others who participated in this panel have prepared remarks, I would be happy to post t...
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I've been less than on the ball about covering the Senate Intelligence Committee's new anti-leak legislation. Here's the bill text. Here's a good summary by Steve Aftergood over at Secrecy News.
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The Washington Post has an editorial today -- entitled "Laughing STOCK" in today's print editions -- criticizing the STOCK Act's internet publication mandate for executive branch financial disclosure for...
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This is the first in a series of posts I will be doing over the comings weeks based on a set of interviews I am conducting with people who have expertise of interest to Lawfare readers--but from whom we ...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Stewart Baker has this interesting piece on whom to blame for the collapse of the cybersecurity bill, which failed on a cloture vote in the Senate the other day. Baker sugg...
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. . . I've been meaning---ever since I plugged Caitlin Fitz Gerald's project, Clausewitz for Kids---to say a few words about this blog, as it might be of interest to Lawfare types. Gunpowder and Lead---a...
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Not so much, reports Daveed Gartenstein-Ross over at the excellent Gunpowder and Lead blog:
Because the base has to be self-sustaining — and because food, supplies, building materials, etc. have to be br...
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As Paul noted here, the cybersecurity bill failed in the Senate yesterday. Oh well. Another day, another policy initiative collapses in the face of partisan polarization.
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My recent joking exchange with readers about Arlington VA’s Lawfare traffic masks a reality I have decided to take decisive action to change: We don't know how many people read Lawfare.
Thanks to Google...
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I am normally pretty good about keeping up with my Lawfare-related email, but sometimes, an important emails slips through the cracks. Andrew Kent of Fordham Law School sent me this comment on my post on...
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Last week, I posted about the national security and personal safety threats posed by Section 11 of the STOCK Act, which would have required senior executive branch officials to post their SF-278 financia...
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Over at the New Yorker blog, Steve Coll has this post on the al-Aulaqi operation, and on related reporting in Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture.
Coll focuses on capture's infeasibility, one of the condit...
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That's the word from James Connell III, an attorney for 9/11 defendant Ammar al Baluchi, a.k.a. Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. The lawyer's statement is below the fold.
Today, the military commission released an...
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And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper. Despite letters from the Director of NSA, General Alexander and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey the motion to close the deb...
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The New York Times At War blog has this fascinating post about how the U.S. was supplying Libya with arms during the pre-Qaddafi years of the Cold War. The post, written by C.J. Chivers and John Ismay, i...
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So reports Lara Jakes at AP, after obtaining a copy of the ruling in which an Iraqi court declined to approve Daqduq's extradition (reasoning that the Iraqi judicial system already had dismissed charges ...
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Published by Knopf (2012)
Reviewed by Sara Aronchick Solow
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The New York Times informs us that Lt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam, the head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, has arrived in Washington D.C. to talk to top American officials including CIA ...
