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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.
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Editor's Note: It's hard to know what aspect of the Islamic State is most disturbing, but high on the list is the use of children as suicide bombers and executioners. Jacob Olidort of the Washington Inst...
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It's been an unusual election season so far to put it mildly. Among the many other unexpected or unprecedented occurrences that have taken place over the course of the 2016 campaign season, we've seen ma...
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Timothy Edgar explained the nuanced reasons why he has publicly voiced support for Edward Snowden’s campaign for a public pardon. Jack Goldsmith responded decisively both by predicting that President Oba...
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The Guardian
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Senator Ron Wyden published an article in Wired this week, co-authored by Matt Blaze and Lawfare’s own Susan Landau, alarmingly entitled, ”The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anything.” The...
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This week’s podcast interview is with Ciaran Martin, the chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre.
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On Tuesday, our friend and colleague Aziz Huq posted to ACSblog a fairly critical assessment of national security law scholarship—and, indeed, national security law as an academic discipline, writ large.
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Crocodile Tears
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How do you manage a partner like Duterte?
President Duterte showing photos of the Bud Dajo Massacre (Photo: PPD/Rey Baniquet)
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A “pardon Snowden” campaign was launched Wednesday, in conjunction with the Snowden film. Snowden himself made the “moral case” case for why he should be pardoned, and Tim Edgar made a much more powerfu...
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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted unanimously on Thursday afternoon to approve a report on Edward Snowden finding that he "did tremendous damage" to U.S. national security. The e...
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Yes, we’re back at the military commission, but no, there’s no Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri. There’s no KSM or Ramzi Binalshibh either.
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Five years of failed efforts to end the fighting in Syria have persuaded many observers that the war may not be resolvable any time soon. But the Associated Press reports that this week’s ceasefire has o...
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Brigadier General John C. Baker, Chief Defense Counsel of the Military Commissions Defense Organization, gave the following remarks yesterday at Georgetown University's NATSECDEF conference.
Keynote S...
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Over the past few weeks, the Justice Department has continued to tie up loose ends in the realm of criminal terrorism prosecutions.
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In episode 129, Alan Cohn and I dive deep on the Government Oversight Committee’s predictably depressing and unpredictably entertaining report on the OPM hack. Cheeky Chinese hackers register their contr...
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How much medical history should presidential candidates disclose? Activists launch a new campaign to pardon Edward Snowden, just in time for the launch of a biopic on the world’s most famous leaker. And ...
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Readers will recall last spring's battle over the San Bernardino iPhone. The FBI had Syed Farook's work phone, but it was locked, with security protections including a ten-tries-and-you're-out on PIN att...
