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AMMAN, Jordan—The Jordanian government is “between two fires,” as goes the Arabic formulation of “between a rock and a hard place.” Jordan has watched car bombs claimed by the Islamic State explode in Tu...
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Jack has highlighted his and Curt Bradley's excellent op-ed in the New York Times this morning explaining the negative consequences to amending the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to allow Saudi Arabia ...
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Conventional wisdom holds that our ongoing war against jihadi groups is utterly unlike a war against a traditional state adversary. In my previous post, I argued that this is at least partially untrue: J...
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Chinese and American Military Leaders, Separately, Visit the South China Sea
USS Stennis (Photo: Reuters)
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Doha Fails to Deliver
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Curt Bradley and I have an op-ed in the NYT on the bill in Congress that aims to expose Saudi Arabia to lawsuits in American courts for its alleged connection to the 9/11 attacks.
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Next Tuesday I’ll have a conversation with Juliette Kayyem at the Hoover Institution in Washington about her terrific new book Security Mom. (Please join us!) One of the book’s central themes is the im...
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President Barack Obama was in damage control mode in Riyadh this week, while headlines in the United States warned of potential economic retaliation should Congress pass a bill that would allow Saudi gov...
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Yesterday, the Miami Herald reported that the Pentagon sent proposed amendments to the Military Commissions Act to Congress. The Herald’s title—Sept. 11 Trial by Skype?—captures the heart of the proposal...
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Russia has started to move artillery to areas in northern Syria where Syrian government forces have begun to group up, potentially in preparation for a return to fighting. The Wall Street Journal reports...
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As readers are well aware, Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released draft legislation on encryption, the “Compliance with Court Orders Act” (CCOA), the other day. Judging by the apocalyptic te...
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European news and sensibilities dominate episode 112. I indulge in some unseemly gloating about Europe’s newfound enthusiasm for the PNR data it wasted years of my life trying to negotiate out of the US ...
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Lawmakers want to give families of the 9/11 victims the power to sue Saudi government officials, but the Obama administration says that’s a terrible idea. Syrian peace talks are in jeopardy of falling ap...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Bank Markazi v. Peterson, a case we previewed last year when the Court first asked for the opinion of the Solicitor General during the certiorari pro...
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The ceasefire in Syria has all but crumbled after government forces assaulted a rebel-held town and left dozens dead. The town of Maarat al-Noaman has been protesting against the al Qaeda affiliated Nusr...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released three redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions (FISC) yesterday, respectively on a pen register and trap-and-trace case, Sect...
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On Saturday, the Department of Defense announced the transfer of nine Yemeni Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia. This chart summarizes the detainee population as of the latest transfers.
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A challenge to effective Congressional oversight of the NSA is the difficult in even knowing the right questions to ask, even when the answers are classified and can only be provided within the SSCI SCIF...
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Major bombings in both Jerusalem and Kabul lead headlines today, with more than 20 people injured in Israel, while in Afghanistan, at least 28 people were killed and more than were 325 injured.
