-
I am amused today by these two headlines about the IMF's just-released assessment of Iran's economy and the effects of remaining sanctions: the New York Times reports that I.M.F.
-
NBC News obtained a National Security Agency memo that reveals that a civilian employee of the NSA gave one Edward Snowden his login information and password, which Snowden then used to access classified...
-
Our cyber attack this morning was a bit more serious than ones we have experienced in the past. And at least one reader reports persistent effects up until now. Please shoot me a note if you're noticing ...
-
At one level, the D.C. Circuit's decision this week in Aamer v. Obama on Guantanamo hunger strikes probably surprised nobody. As expected, the D.C. Circuit upheld the two district court decision to deny ...
-
As readers may have noticed, we have had another outage this morning. We are looking into the cause and will keep readers posted. Our apologies.
UPDATE: We are informed by our technical folks at Blue Wa...
-
As I suggested last month, the Snowden disclosures are going to drive even our European allies to doubt America's bona fides as a steward of the internet. Thus, we should not be surprised to learn that ...
-
Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").
-
According to the New York Observer, anyway, the news staff seems to agree with me:
IT’S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at T...
-
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework has been released. It is accompanied by a Roadmap which is intended to be a work plan for future efforts on issues (like authentication) that require further study and w...
-
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Security Agency is now only collecting "about 20% or less" of U.S. telephony metadata under the Section 215 program now acknowledged by the g...
-
The hearing is happening now, and can be viewed over at the Judiciary Committee's website or at C-SPAN.
The witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be:
The Honorable David M...
-
French President François Hollande is in the United States, visiting President Obama. Last night, Hollande was honored at an extravagant State Dinner, before which President Obama affirmed that U.S.---Fr...
-
In the past two decades or so, an enormous amount of academic international law and policy attention has gone to the concept of jus post bellum, or "post conflict justice." There are various ways of ren...
-
Last September, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (in conjunction with the Aspen Institute) released a Task Force report on Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the US Department of...
-
Jack flagged the morning's stories about a debate within the Obama Administration over ordering a drone strike against another American citizen associated with Al Qaeda.
-
The panel's decision in the closely-watched case of Aamer v. Obama was handed down this morning. The majority opinion opens:
TATEL, Circuit Judge: Petitioners Ahmed Belbacha, Abu Dhiab, and Shaker Aame...
-
Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller report in the WP that Al-Qaeda’s recent expulsion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has raised questions about whether the AUMF “still applies” to ISIS.
-
Published by Amazon Kindle Single (2014)
Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes
Over the past few weeks, several members of congressional intelligence committees have intimated that Edward Snowden might have bee...
-
Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ).
The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C
-
One of the policy questions kicked to the DNI in PDD-28 was defining the permissible uses of bulk collection. Thanks to Thomas Earnest over at Just Security, I just noticed that the DNI has now done so.
