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Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has responded here to the letter from the 47 Republican Senators, on which I commented yesterday. Just as the Senators’ letter purported to school Iran on U.S. consti...
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The Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law is putting on its 23rd National Security Law Institute this summer, from May 31st to June 12th. The Institute is a two-wee...
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Friday, the Pentagon announced that Iraqi troops pushed back Islamic State militants from the town of Al Baghdadi, an important IS stronghold, located a few miles away from a U.S. Marine air base. The Hi...
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The latest installation of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative covers the annual military exercises that take place in East Asia each winter and spring. If you’re interested in the details of these...
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Josh Rogin reports that a “group of 47 Republican senators has written an open letter to Iran's leaders warning them that any nuclear deal they sign with President Barack Obama's administration won’t las...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Editor’s Note: The latest reporting suggests the United States and Iran are inching closer to a deal on their nuclear program, but will they succeed and will it stick? The answer to this question depends...
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A bit late, but one more observation about the New York Times editorial calling for cyber arms control.
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This week, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a controversial address to a joint session of Congress in a move not coordinated with President Barack Obama. The speech, repeatedly interr...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on recidivism among former Guantanamo detainees this week. The report details that, while nine additional former detainees returned t...
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Neustar looks to lose its contract.
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The latest ODNI recidivism report is available here. The last report, which was released in September, is here.
Since the release of the September 2014 report, an additional nine former detainees have r...
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Iraqi forces continue to press into Tikrit, an Iraqi city seized by ISIS last June. To stall the Iraqi advance, ISIS fighters have set fire to oil wells, laced roads into Tikrit with explosives, and depl...
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This week we learned about an attack called "FREAK"---"Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys"---that can break the
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Everything old is new again. Two years ago, I wrote about a bipartisan effort (in which I was and still am participating) to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. That effort, sadly, went n...
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The estimable Chris Jenks writes in from Australia with the following thoughts on my piece yesterday on the David Petraeus plea:
Appreciated your comments on Petraeus. One additional factor which resonat...
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Two new podcasts for your listening pleasure.
Here's this week's episode of Rational Security, on which Shane Harris, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and I discuss Susan Rice's speech to AIPAC, recent development...
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Over at The Intercept, Peter Maass complains that the plea deal for David Petraeus is "yet another example of a senior official treated leniently for the sorts of violations that lower-level officials ar...
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With opening statements made, prosecutors in the capital case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev commenced their presentation of evidence. An overview of the day’s testimony---which spanned some of the morning a...
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FTC v. Wyndham. The Third Circuit heard oral argument the other day in this long-running case that will test whether or not the FTC can use its "unfair" business practices authority to sanction companie...
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