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The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on "Oversight and Reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act: The Balance Between National Security, Privacy and Civil Liberti
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It’s no secret at this stage that Saudi Arabia is trying to court Israel as part of its ongoing efforts to contain the perceived Iranian threat in the region, especially in the aftermath of the signing o...
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Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff recently released Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century.
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The United States’ war against the Islamic State is facing hurdles on and off the battlefield. The Washington Post reports that “chaos in Baghdad, the fraying of the ceasefire in Syria and political turm...
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In today’s digital age, virtually everything we do is in some way collected and catalogued. This phenomenon will grow as the Internet of Things expands, cameras in public become more common, and tracking...
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Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff recently released Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century.
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Editor's Note: Russia won in Syria – or so Putin would like us to believe. The Russian intervention seemed to tip the balance of forces in Assad's favor, and Russia announced a pullout with its mission a...
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One of the important recent contributions to the encryption debate was a report from the Berkman Center at Harvard, "Don't Panic." It is fair to say that the report's title captures its view of the encr...
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Both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are reportedly considering amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2017 to limit the size of the NSC staff and subject NSC staff and N...
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Last week, Juliette Kayyem joined Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith at the Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of her new book, Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home. In the...
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Our rundown of this week's activity on Lawfare.
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UN Security Council members are holding an informal meeting today on protecting Palestinian civilians from war crimes. Security Council Report offers this background on the session:
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Last night, Egyptian authorities arrested and detained Malek Adly, a prominent human rights lawyer who, as this piece was written, was being investigated by police. He is accused of inciting the protests...
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Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from testimony offered before the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.
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The Middle East's largest construction firm, the Saudi Binladen Group, is in trouble. With the Saudi economy depressed due to low oil prices, the Binladen Group islaying off tens of thousands of workers....
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Sino-Japanese Summit Seeks to Restart Troubled Relationship
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Next Wednesday, May 11, Brookings is holding an online event to release a pair of papers on which I and a team of Lawfare folks have spent a great deal of time over the last several months. The subject i...
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One of the great technological advances of our time is the ability to put vast amounts of information to use for expanding scientific knowledge, making enterprises more efficient, increasing consumer con...
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