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Last week, one of us noted Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s question to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates asking whether the manufacturers of encrypted devices might be liable civilly if FBI Director James...
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Episode 76 of the podcast features the power couple of privacy and cybersecurity, Peter Swire and Annie Antón, both professors at Georgia Institute of Technology. I question them on topics from the USA F...
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A new deadline appears: one day after the U.N. Security Council formally endorsed the nuclear deal with Iran, Iranian legislators have decided to wait at least 80 days to vote on the deal. The 80-day wai...
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Even the most vehement critics of the Obama administration’s agreement curbing Iran’s nuclear capabilities, among them Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Senator Tom Cotton, no longer advance ...
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This episode features part one of an interview with Don Rassler based on his article “Situating the Emergence of the Islamic State of Khorasan,” for the CTC Sentinel. This part of the conversation covers...
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Last week, we published our handy summary of the historic nuclear agreement reached between world powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran. As we read and reread the deal, we realized that one of the prim...
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New details are emerging about 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the Kuwaiti-born man who opened fire on two military sites in Tennessee, shooting seven people and killing five U.S. service members.
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Earlier today, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution supporting the recently concluded nuclear deal with Iran. The resolution creates the mechanism though which Iran will ...
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A whopping two weeks of court time earlier had been reserved for pre-trial motions in United States v. Abd al Hadi al Iraqi---but not all of it will be filled with proceedings in the Guantanamo courtroom...
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Over the past fortnight, the Chinese government has waged a judicial blitzkrieg across the country, arresting over 190 prominent human rights lawyers. The campaign is part and parcel of Beijing’s efforts...
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Andrew McCarthy is once again blaming the poor Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act for Congress’s inability to stop the President from implementing the Iran deal. McCarthy is not the only one doing so.
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Over at Just Security, Marshall Erwin has an excellent article entitled, "The FBI’s Problem Isn’t 'Going Dark.' Its Problem is Going Slowly." I'm not sure how much of Erwin's argument I agree with—defini...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Tuesday, July 21st at 9 am: The Center for a New American Security and the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law will ...
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Editor's Note: Last week we looked at how the lack of attention to governance has hindered effective U.S. security sector assistance. This week Gordon Adams of American University and Richard Sokolsky of...
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"And indeed whosoever takes revenge after he has suffered wrong, for such there is no way of blame against them". (Surah Al Shura)
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Colum Lynch and John Hudson have an article in Foreign Policy provocatively entitled “Obama Turns to U.N. to Outmaneuver Congress” in which they suggest that the new U.N. Security Council Resolution like...
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While world powers and Iran were embroiled in last minute negotiations last week, Brookings hosted a panel discussion on the meaning of another power’s recent nuclear threats: Russia's. In recent months,...
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Dominating the news, and Lawfare's coverage: Iran. Four deadlines and 18 days of final discussions later, the United States reached a historic accord with Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear capabilities in r...
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A shooter killed four and injured three at two military facilities in Chattanooga yesterday before dying of a gunshot wound. Authorities identified the gunman as Mohammod Youssef Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-bo...
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Now that some of the dust has settled in the wake of the revelations about NSA and GCHQ surveillance of foreign leaders, it is a good time for the United States to engage in a bit of surveillance diploma...
