At the end of September, the United States and China reached an agreement that promising they would not engage in or support cyber espionage activity aimed at providing competitive advantage to commercia...

An alert reader in Moscow just sent us this photograph of a t-shirt for sale in the Russian capital. It says, "Support Assad," along with what appears to be an aerial bombing picture. The bottom left say...

Judge Pohl gavels the session to order. It appears, in contrast to some earlier pre-trial hearings, that almost all of the defendants are present in the court today. Only Mustafa al Hawsawi is the excep...

WBUR's "Here & Now" show on my martial arts challenge to Vladimir Putin:

The Canadian broadcasting company ran

In this post, I want to focus on a narrow slice of Charlie Savage's much-anticipated book Power Wars (published today...go ahead, order it now!), one that might not generate as much attention as the mate...

Much of the coverage of the USS Lassen's maneuver near the Subi reef in the South China Sea presented the operation as a challenge to Chinese maritime claims and island-building operations. But in fact t...

With Charlie Savage’s book out today, I can add to my post last week about the decline of OLC as a source of relatively independent, dispositive legal advice on national security issues within the Execut...

The other day, I was privileged to participate in the CIA and George Washington University's conference on "The Ethos and Profession of Intelligence." Here are videos and audio of all of the sessions. Th...

Insider threats rightly occupy a significant portion of the public discussion (and private debate inside corporations and government agencies) about cybersecurity. The company employee who intentionally ...

Editors Note: This article was cross-posted with the Federalist Society On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Clapper announced a plan to implement a new set of transparency principles for the I...

From my piece Friday on Shaker Aamer: "Aamer was 'cleared for transfer,' after all, and that translates in a lot of people's minds and in a lot of news stories to 'cleared,' which translates in turn in a...

Editor’s Note: The Kurds are the largest nation in the Middle East without a state of their own and their quest for more rights and at times independence has led to civil wars, unrest, and near-genocidal...

The past few days have witnessed two huge developments in the South China Sea. On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy conducted a long-anticipated freedom of navigation (FON) patrol in the Spratly Islands. Two days l...

In light of the scientific consensus that substantial increases in atmospheric CO2 will inevitably lead to solar-driven global warming, the nations of the world are seeking to obtain agreement on proposa...

Charlie Savage has a nice story, drawn from his book (out Tuesday), about the challenges President Obama faces in trying to meet his first-week-in-Office pledge to close GTMO: