The House Judiciary Committee at 1:00 pm is holding a hearing at which FBI Director James Comey and Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell will both testify on going dark matters. Here's the live video:

The Obama administration is now considering whom it will nominate to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Most of the names on the rumored “short list” have familiar resumes: ...

Just in time for today's hearing on Capitol Hill, and for the RSA Conference in San Francisco, The Chertoff Group has released a white paper entitled "The Ground Truth About Encryption and The Consequenc...

What follows below is the second in a series of primers for those who are interested in the continuing fallout from Apple’s decision to resist government requests for technical assistance in overcoming p...

Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York has ruled that the government's request for assistance from Apple to extract data from a phone operating iOS 7—an older operating syst...

In his May 2013 speech at National Defense University, President Obama called for new ways to think about drones and the United States’ policy on using these systems in counterterrorism operations. Now, ...

To say that Apple has great marketing would be quite an understatement. Apple is widely recognized as having one of the most effective marketing and PR operations in their—or perhaps any—industry. Storie...

Last Thursday’s hearing by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs made clear that the Republicans in Congress are still steaming about the Obama administration’s narrowing of Congress’s recent restrictio...

PDF version A Review of Adam Segal's The Hacked World Order (PublicAffairs, 2016).

In a recent February 25 hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI Director Comey said two things. At 36:45 in the CSPAN video, he says that

Editor's Note: What if most terrorism isn’t really terrorism? In past decades, much of what we call terrorism today would have been seen as insurgent violence, revolutionary war, or civil war: a group li...

The Syria War, says Aaron David Miller, the distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, is "Not Obama’s Fault.” Instead, the war is primarily the work of Bashar Al-Assad, the presid...

This piece originally appeared on the Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy but its themes are so pertinent to Lawfare readers that I've submitted it to Lawfare as well. ***

A couple of weeks ago, I thought it worth calling to reader's attention the threat assessment done by the Norwegian Police Security Service (more or less Norway's MI-5). Today, we have news from the Nor...

Ahead of Super Tuesday, the 10th GOP presidential debate took place Thursday in Houston, TX. The debate featured the five remaining Republican presidetial candidates Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Ma...