Senate Majority Leader Reid spoke on the Senate floor earlier today explaining why the Senate needed to consider cybersecurity legislation as an urgent matter and, in particular, why he would prioritize ...

I will soon be posting on SSRN, with my co-author Sam Issacharoff, a draft academic article that offers a broad, integrated conceptual and legal framework for understanding specific counterterrorism lega...

Judge James Pohl has tweaked the calendar in United States v.

Today, Australia's government formally abandoned its lawsuit to prevent David Hicks---the first defendant ever to plead guilty to military commission charges---from profiting from the sale of his book, G...

The other day, Wells drew my attention to what could be the single most excellently eccentric national security-oriented project currently ongoing on the web: It is called Clausewitz for Kids. I am appar...

By now you've pored over last week's complaint in Al-Aulaqi et al v.

As we have all noted, Senators Lieberman and Collins have proposed a revised version of their cybersecurity legislation.  They've touted it as a compromise bill that moves closer to the middle and addres...

Over at the ACSblog, I have a guest post up on Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta and Ben's suspicion that the lawsuit will go the way of Arar, Lebron, Doe, and Rasul--with courts holding that there should be no Biven...

Former Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, concerning Google's subversion of Safari's security settings.  Here's the introduction: In the cyber age, privac...

I'm just going to link to it. There's some rhetoric I wouldn't use in here, but--as I said before and as Steve explained here--this is a provocative step the government has taken, and it shouldn't do thi...

Over at Foreign Policy, the mysterious author of the @drunkenpredator Twitter feed has an essay that begins: Every morning, the hangar doors roll open and the sunlight flares my electro-optical sensors. ...

As I noted on Friday, Senators Lieberman and Collins have released a Manager’s Amendment in the form of a substitute which reflects some significant changes to their original bill.  You can access the fu...

Laurie Blank, professor at Emory Law School and director of its International Humanitarian Law Clinic, gives Lawfare the last in the series of guest comments on Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine ar...

This morning, U.S.

In response to my post contending that the United States is party to an armed conflict in Yemen pitting AQAP and the government of Yemen against one another, Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes i...