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This week, Lawfare introduced Susan Hennessey as its new managing editor. Please join us in welcoming her (back) to the Lawfare team, and follow her on Twitter!
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Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali this morning, leaving at least 20 dead after a prolonged hostage situation. The attackers entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako between 7:00 and 7:30 am local tim...
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Tidal Waves and Tanker Trucks
The Islamic State’s money comes in significant part from energy. So if the world is going to take on ISIS in a serious way, it’s going to have to take on its energy resourc...
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We want leaders who are not only smart but who care about other people. Now, at the same time, we must balance safety against just being a humanitarian. For instance, if there’s a rabid dog running aro...
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The NSA ended its program involving bulk collection of Internet metadata inside the United States in 2011. This Internet metadata program was the genesis of the legal theory that authorizes bulk collect...
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By week’s end, the major players in the South and East China Sea will have participated in three separate international conferences touching on tensions in the Asian-Pacific. The meetings include the G-2...
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French President François Hollande has called for the United States, Russia, and France to form a global coalition to fight against ISIS.
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Senator Rand Paul has offered this amendment in the Senate today. It speaks for itself.
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As Bobby has reported, one of the fascinating outgrowths of the Paris attacks is the declaration of war on ISIS that came the other day from Anonymous. Bobby mused on the intelligence value of identifyi...
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What do the ISIS attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, and now France tell us about the group’s evolution and whether it’s changing strategy? Are they a sign of growing ambition or a sign of pressure as US ...
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Senate Democrats have called for the rapid confirmation of several stalled Presidential nominees to important national security positions in light of the Paris attacks and the potential terrorist threat ...
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The suspected architect behind Friday’s attacks in Paris was reportedly killed in a raid involving over 100 security personnel and lasting more than seven hours.
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The modern world is a virtual panopticon, a surveillance state which records huge quantities of data about our every action and provides an easily retrievable metadata record of our movements, our contac...
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In a video posted to Youtube a few days ago, the hacker collective Anonymous proclaimed it would go after ISIS in response to the Paris attacks, in a campaign labeled #OpParis (there's an official twitte...
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Russia now says that it believes that ISIS was behind the crash of a commercial Russian aircraft, Metrojet 9268, over the Sinai desert on October 31 which killed the 224 people on board. Like the Paris ...
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Josh Gerstein has a nice summary of Attorney General Lynch’s testimony yesterday concerning the closure of GTMO (minutes 44-48 or so here). A key passage:
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Our guest for the podcast is Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte and Canonical/Ubuntu.
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The unseemly spectacle of governors and presidential candidates—leaders and would-be leaders of states and the nation at large—tripping over one another to confuse the victims of ISIS with ISIS itself an...
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More than two weeks after a Russian plane crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, Russian officials have confirmed that a bomb was responsible for bringing down the plane. The head of the FSB, Russia’s securit...
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Yesterday, the 2015 G20 Summit in Turkey released the G20 Leaders' Communiqué. Those provisions relating to commercial cyberespionage and hacking will be a particular interest to Lawfare readers.
