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An article by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt in today's New York Times discusses a Pentagon plan for expanding/developing the global basing framework for counterterrorist activities, particularly those i...
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This week on the show, Susan Hennessey joins us again. Shane Harris talks about President Obama's effort to reassure the nation that ISIS is not winning. We discuss Donald Trump's different sort of plan ...
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Who won the torture debate -- the CIA or Senate Intelligence Committee Report? Were waterboarding, rectal hydration, stress positions, and other techniques used against detainees effective? Legal? Ethica...
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The House Armed Services Committee has released its report on the inquiry into "The Department of Defense's May 2014 Transfer to Qatar of five law-of-war detainees in connection with the recovery of a ca...
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Iraqi forces captured a critical neighborhood of Ramadi yesterday.
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Satoshi Nakamoto exposed? As most readers know, Bitcoin is a crypto currency that was first invented by a pseudononymous mathematician who went by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. For years, many has soug...
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How must states’ intelligence agencies approach their international law obligations? From the perspective of international law itself, there is a fairly clear answer: Like all sub-state entities, intell...
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Over at her Emptywheel blog, Marcy Wheeler has a response to my piece on the designation and prosecution of terrorism in light of the events in Colorado Spring and San Bernardino. As she notes, we have a...
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Did China’s PLA really stop hacking US companies for commercial secrets? And does it matter? In episode 92, we ask those questions and more of two experts on the topic ‒ Washington Post reporter Ellen Na...
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Michael Walzer and Jeff McMahan have each recently written about the war on ISIS. The authors are the leading philosophers of war.
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Lorenzo Vidino and Seamus Hughes come on the show to talk about their new report ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa. Some of the topics covered include:
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U.S. officials have denied Syrian accusations that U.S. coalition planes targeted a Syrian military base, and instead asserted that Russia was responsible for the strikes that killed four Syrian soldiers...
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The WWDTD test on surveillance.
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On Twitter, NYU Law Professor Robert Howse poses the following very interesting question about Donald Trump:Boosting terrorist recruit efforts w his anti Muslim rant, did @realDonaldTrump think of securi...
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Donald Trump’s latest outrageous statement—that all Muslims should be excluded from the United States—confirms what I expect most Lawfare readers already knew: not only does he lack the national security...
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My phone just flashed a New York Times update at me: "Donald Trump Calls for Barring Muslims from Entering the U.S.":
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In a rare address from the Oval Office yesterday evening, President Barack Obama discussed the administration’s response to the rising threat of domestic terrorism in the United States following last Wed...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement over the weekend in advance of this week's pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 case:
CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS
REMARKS...
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In something of a coda to last night's presidential address, the Pentagon has just issued press release confirming that a previously-reported November airstrike conducted by the U.S.
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Over at EJIL: Talk!, the estimable Marko Milanovic notes what he describes as a "hugely important" surveillance opinion in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. I have not yet read Rom...
