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By most accounts, this was not a good week for America. On Thursday evening, our political process hit an all-time low.
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This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Wilson Center takes on the Apple v. FBI controversy in a panel entitled “Will They or Won’t They? Understanding the Encryption Debate.”
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Apple's general counsel sounds suspiciously like James Comey when he talks about a small messaging app that competes with his own product.
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Just how many ISIS detainees have been in U.S. military custody over the past year? As I noted earlier this week, the first publicly-known instance arose last summer with the capture and detention of Um...
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This week, El Salvador became the 124th member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). As it joined the court, the Salvadoran government also became the 28th country to ratify the Rome Statute amendme...
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In the latest news out of North Korea, Kim Jong-un ordered his military to have its nuclear warheads deployed and ready to be launched at any moment.
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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At the risk of slightly immodest behavior, I thought blog readers might be interested in knowing about the release of my new video course: "The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You" from The Gr...
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) flag (Photo: Shutterstock.com)
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Earlier this week, Shane Reeves and Winston Williams published a thoughtful call for a national-security lawyer to be appointed to the Supreme Court. I certainly have no interest in degrading the career ...
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On March 2, 2016, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously passed Resolution 2270, which expands the scope of existing sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Th...
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A New York magistrate judge says the government can’t force Apple to help the FBI extract information from an iPhone. Forty percent of analysts at the U.S. military’s Central Command say the “integrity” ...
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The other day, I received a letter from Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. It came in the form of an unadorned Microsoft Word file called "wittes.docx." It did not bear President Ilves's John Hanco...
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Judge Pohl begins with the usual business. We are now going on day four with no Bin ‘Attash. As for changes to the legal staff, James Connell, counsel for al-Baluchi, notes the absence of their linguist ...
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We pick up the February 23 session in the afternoon, with Col. Pohl presiding. (Transcripts from the morning session were not released.) Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who was absent in the morning session, has...
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In his remarks at a conference on computer security, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that he opposed “back doors or a single technical approach” for accessing data on encrypted devices. While urging in...
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If the devil is in the details, then the announcement early Monday of the inner workings of the new US-EU data-transfer agreement, Privacy Shield, may lack the granularity the deal needs to flourish. The...
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As a young boy, I would sometimes be bullied by my peers. But even worse than the bullying was the perception of being unable to respond. If I said something like "do that again and I'll hit you" the h...
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It is commonly said that the Obama administration rejects the use of military detention, and understandably so. Many factors support that characterization, after all: no new detainees have been brought ...
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