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The House Foreign Affairs Committee is hearing testimony this morning on the Administration's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure...
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Something is going wrong with international counterterrorism efforts. It is undeniable.
The extensive, coordinated, devastating terrorist attacks in Paris in November and the Brussels attack today are i...
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To read the news over the last 24 hours, you’d think the FBI had given up the ghost with its announcement that maybe, just maybe, it had a way into the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone without Apple’s help...
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Yesterday, the Department of Justice filed a motion to vacate a hearing previously scheduled for today on whether Apple can be compelled to unlock the iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the Sa...
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The FBI has asked Magistrate Sheri Pym to postpone a court hearing originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 22, on the her order that Apple assist the FBI in disabling the “10-wrong-tries-and-phone-is-era...
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Today, President Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro as part of an historic visit to Cuba as the two countries revitalize diplomatic relations. President Obama arrived in Havana yesterday, becomin...
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Form should follow function. As we noted late last year, in the context of infrastructure protection this means that the organzation of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) of DHS sho...
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The very public fight between Apple and the FBI over the last six weeks has not only reinvigorated the broader debate over the “going dark” concern (and the larger, age-old tension between privacy and se...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, March 21st at 11 am: The CATO Institute will host an event entitled America's Invisible Wars. Mark Mazzetti will moderate a conversation...
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In bonus episode 106, Stewart and Alan interview Phil Reitinger, former DHS Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity and Sony Corporation CISO and current Director of the new Global Cyber Alliance, making...
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Two years ago, the United States government, acting through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced its intention to sever the last contractual control it had over the ad...
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Editor's Note: Autonomous weapons systems are often vilified as “killer robots” that will slay thousands without compunction – arguments that the systems’ proponents often dismiss with a wave of their ha...
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Last week, General Michael Hayden—the only person to be both the director of the CIA and the NSA—joined Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes at the Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of his new book, Playing to th...
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Cody Poplin linked us to President Obama’s announcement nominating Merrick Garland to SCOTUS. Following the announcement, Benjamin Wittes praised Merrick Garland’s nomination and highlighted his national...
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I was very skeptical about last September’s US-China “agreement” in which China pledged that it would not “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secre...
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Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted fugitive behind the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris last November, was arrested today after a shootout with police in Brussels. Media reports indicate that Abde...
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While Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sudden decision to withdraw troops from Syria caught many by surprise, it was not the only dramatic development in Syria this week. Syria’s Kurds had a surprise o...
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A PRC surveillance vessel crusies next to Japan Coast Guard patrol ships near the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands (Photo: Kyodo)
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President Obama nominates national security lawyer Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. An American ISIS defector is in Kurdish custody. And major Web sites have been delivering malware to their readers...
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