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Can Lone Wolves Be Stopped?
The year 2016 was the year of the Lone Wolf terrorist. In the United States, Omar Mateen, a loser who pledged himself to the Islamic State as he attacked a gay nightclub in Florida, killed 49 people in t... -
The Legality of the 3/6/17 Executive Order, Part III: The Establishment Clause
On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new executive order on immigration that superseded an order he signed on January 27. -
Lawfare Profile in the New York Times Magazine
This morning, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine wrote a thoughtful profile of Lawfare: “How a Wonky National-Security Blog Hit the Big Time.” The piece reflects some of the wild year we’ve had... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: What Cybersecurity Experts Tell their Moms about Computer Security
In this week’s episode, we ask two acknowledged NSA cybersecurity experts, Curtis Dukes and Tony Sager, both from the Center for Internet Security, what they tell their family members about how to keep t... -
How Trump Can Understand the Dangers We Face in the "Age of Consequences"
The Climate Security Act of 2007 was introduced by Senator Joe Lieberman and Senator John Warner, both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee keenly aware of the dangers that climate change poses... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Wall Street Journal tells us that President Donald Trump has rolled back another Obama-era national security policy by granting the CIA increased authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected ... -
Hoover Book Soiree: Graeme Wood's The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm on Tuesday, March 28, when Ben will interview Graeme Wood on his new book, The Way of the Strangers: Encounter... -
A Revived CIA Drone Strike Program? Comments on the New Policy
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Gordon Lubold and Shane Harris reported that President Trump “has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected... -
U.S. Deploys More Troops to Syria, Trump Loosens Rules for Counterterrorism Operations, and Turkey Feuds with Europe ahead of Referendum
New Deployment of U.S. Troops Heads to Syria -
Balancing Privacy and Security in Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump might yet manage to meet in Washington this week despite winter storm Stella, which hobbled the capital and postponed Tuesday’s scheduled s... -
Sanctuary 101, Part II: What Is a “Sanctuary Jurisdiction”? Let's Stop Mystifying the Answer
[This is Part II in a four-part series that sets out to clarify the continuing confusion around sanctuary cities. Start with Part I.] -
The Continuing Need to Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility
On Sunday, John Bellinger forcefully summarized the main arguments for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Having served as the Department of Defense Special Envoy for Guantanamo Dete... -
How Wikileaks Hacked the Media
There are two real stories involving the CIA data dump by Wikileaks, neither of which is about the actual documents themselves. The first is that somebody managed to exfiltrate the data from the CIA in t... -
The Trump Administration’s Flawed Guantánamo Narrative
On Saturday, I wrote a post for Just Security titled “Whitewashing Guantánamo,” in which I explained how three different data points from the past week underscored a consistent and troubling pattern by t... -
Defending Norms by Defending Norms
One of the proudest days of my life was, oddly enough, January 20, 2009. It's the day I lost my last full-time job. At 11:59 AM, I was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Hom... -
Sanctuary 101, Part I: What Trump’s Executive Order Doesn’t Do, Cannot Do, and Has Little To Do With
A month after President Trump issued his January 25, 2017 executive order, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” there remains a great deal of confusion: about what qualifies as... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is looking into loosening Obama-era constraints intended to prevent civilian deaths from counterterrorism missions outside conventional war zones.... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, March 13th at 2pm: James Kirchick will launch his new book, entitled The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age a... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/10 Session: Motion Sickness and Medical Side Effects
March 10th opens with a lengthy examination of an unnamed Senior Medical Officer (SMO), who was formerly responsible for caring for Nashiri from September 2016 through February 2017. The defense team hav... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/9 Session: A Timeline for Discovery
Our usual crew returns to Nashiri where we left them on the 8th—debating a timeline for discovery.
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