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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
One of the most important revelations following the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden wa...
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Mahmoud Abbas will be remembered as a transformative figure in Palestinian politics. He was a driving force in reaching the Oslo Accords and in standing up the Palestinian Authority, and has overseen the...
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
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In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck spend time with three legal topics (before spiraling off into some ill-informed commentary on the college football season). First, building off a report...
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In Episode 177, fresh from hiatus, we try to summarize the most interesting cyber stories to break in August. Paul Rosenzweig kicks things off with the Shunning of Kaspersky. I argue that the most signi...
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I am very pleased to share this news: An annual prize for outstanding national security law scholarship has been established in the name of our colleague Mike Lewis, who passed away in 2015.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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North Korea tested its most power nuclear weapon to date on Sunday, the New York Times reported. Although experts questioned North Korea’s claim that it had set off a hydrogen bomb, the blast produced a ...
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
Tim Edgar’s new book, "Beyond Snowden," prompts a number of reflections. One virtue of a book like this by a knowledgeable insid...
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I am honored that Lawfare is using my new book, "Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA" as the starting point for a conversation on the future of surveillance refo...
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On Friday evening, the President nominated Jennifer Newstead to be the next Legal Adviser of the State Department.
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Our electoral infrastructure consists of two distinct pieces (or so it seems to me): a broader public context in which elections occur and a narrower system of election management. To date, almost everyt...
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IAEA Verifies Iran’s Compliance with Nuclear Deal
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One hundred years ago today—on September 5, 1917—Charles Evans Hughes famously argued that “the power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.” In a recent Columbia Law Review article, I detail...
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Over the past few months, I’ve been consistently surprised at the assumptions people make about who is leaking—or lawfully and properly disclosing—material to newspapers that have been breaking stories o...
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Since President Trump fired Jim Comey as FBI director, the FBI has received quite a bit of attention. More than 19.5 million people tuned in to watch former director Comey testify before the Senate Intel...
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Editor’s Note: Political and policy change in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states used to proceed at a glacial pace. No more. Gulf states are quarreling with each other and intervening right and left in t...
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Last month we began a polling project to measure the public’s confidence in government on national security matters on an ongoing, consistent basis. The goal is to try to establish a baseline of public o...
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Jane Chong and Benjamin Wittes argued that the time has come for Congress to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. In a follow-up post, Chong addressed some of the common misconceptions...
