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As experts debate the policy implications of the DNC hack and need for attribution, there appears to be consensus that campaigns need better cybersecurity. The unanswered question is how exactly to ensur...
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Politicians and analysts in Europe and the United States understandably focus on the threat the Islamic State poses to the West, and the debate is fierce over whether the group’s recent attacks are a des...
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Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Project on US Relations with the Islamic World and the author of the new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshapin...
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This week’s news was dominated by the Demoncratic Convention and allegations that the Russian government hacked the DNC, perhaps to aid Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, becoming the first woman to become a major party nominee in the United States. Clinton por...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released the following remarks yesterday at Guantanamo Bay preceding pre-trial hearings in Khalid Sheikh Mohammad et al. The hearings today and yesterda...
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I know we promised to take August off, but I was inspired by the flap over the DNC hack and the fact that I’m at the Aspen Homeland Security Working Group meeting in Colorado. I waylaid two former intell...
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President Obama’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention has been widely understood as pointed thematic rebuke of Donald Trump.
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Critics of state investigations of alleged violations of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) often accuse those inquiries of being insufficiently independent from the chain of command. Medicins Sans (MSF, a...
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All are, by now, no doubt familiar with two factor authentication. It is the idea that when I try and log-in somewhere besides my user name and password I have to give additional authentication that ver...
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U.N. Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura urged the United States and Russia to work together in reducing violence in the wartorn country, warning that any breakdown of collaboration between the two powers cou...
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Pre-trial hearings continue Monday morning at Guantanamo Bay in the case of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks.
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If Vladimir Putin can do it, so can we. This week the podcast dives deep into the US presidential campaign.
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At Motherboard, Joseph Cox reports that defense attorneys representing dozens of defendants nabbed in an FBI child pornography sting have pooled their resources in a “national working group.” A Network I...
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Editor's Note: This essay originally appeared in the Washington Post.
Russia was behind the hacks into the Democratic National Committee’s computer network that led to the release of thousands of intern...
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Hacks and Attacks
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Yesterday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff—Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively—ca...
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Long before recent reports on the (very probable) Russian intelligence-led hack of the Democratic National Committee and public exposure of internal emails, political campaigns were already faced with cy...
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American intelligence agencies have reached a consensus of “high confidence” that Russia was in fact behind the hacking of 20,000 DNC emails, according to The New York Times. The hack could have been par...
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Rep. Adam Schiff and Dianne Feinstein have released the following statement regarding the hack of the DNC and subsequent document leak:
Urge Administration to Release Intelligence Related to Attack
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