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Syrian Ceasefire Falls Apart
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In a federal district court in Washington, D.C. this past Thursday, Irfan Demirtas pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). Unlike many of the recent FBI...
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To see the Snowdenistas and many media elites clutching for their smelling salts, you’d think my former colleagues at the Washington Post editorial page had stabbed Edward Snowden in the back after swear...
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In a law-heavy news roundup, Katie Cassel and I talk about New York’s dangerously prescriptive cybersecurity regs for banks and insurers. Maury Shenk and I uncover the seamy industrial politics behind th...
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The father of the man suspected of engineering the bombs found in New York City and New Jersey on Saturday told police in 2014 that his son was a “terrorist,” briefly opening an FBI investigation, the Ne...
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Normally, when a terrorist attack happens, the shakeup in public opinion is thought to help Republicans. And many commentators today are wondering whether the attacks in New York and New Jersey might thu...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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The Congressional Research Service has issued a new report on "The Advocacy of Terrorism on the Internet: Freedom of Speech Issues and Material Support Statutes." The report is available below and can al...
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One sometimes thinks that consistency is the stock-in-trade of attorneys. We insist (sometimes even foolishly, pace Emerson) that words have consistent meaning and that the implications of how we use the...
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Jack Goldsmith’s response to my call for a pardon for Edward Snowden deserves a reply. I also have a few thoughts on what Susan Hennessey and Ben Wittes have now added to the debate.
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Prior to last week, one might have been forgiven for thinking that Edward Snowden had fallen out of the news. Now, however, Oliver Stone’s new film Snowden and the ACLU-Amnesty International campaign to ...
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A suspect has been arrested in connection with the explosion in downtown Manhattan on Saturday night and a bombing elsewhere in New Jersey, the New York Times reports. Ahmed Khan Rahami, a U.S. citizen b...
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Let’s start with an obvious point: As Jack Goldsmith pointed out last week, President Obama is not going to pardon Edward Snowden. It’s just not going to happen. Period. And everyone involved in the camp...
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Police in New Jersey have located and arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami, the prime suspect in the Chelsea and New Jersey bombings. Rahami fired on the officers who found him, striking two of them and then being...
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On September 13, 2016, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a set of proposed cybersecurity regulations for financial services companies that fall under the jurisdiction of the New York State Departm...
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Not all countries that suffer from terrorism are innocent victims doing their best to fight back. Many governments, including several important U.S. allies, simultaneously fight and encourage the terrori...
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A review of Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights, edited by Jens David Ohlin (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, September 19th at 4pm: Arthur T. Downey will lecture on his recent book, The Cold War: Law, Lawyers, Spies and Crises in an event at the...
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Today from 9:15am to 12:30pm, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute is hosting a panel event on How Should We Govern Government Hacking? A livestream of the event is below.
