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On December 18, the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology released its much anticipated report, Liberty and Security in a Changing World. Tomorrow, President Obama will g...
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Last fall, during the debate on airstrikes in Syria, commentators argued that the United States needed to act in order to preserve the credibility of American threats.
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The Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law is putting out a series of short essays, starting today, called "The Briefing: Secrecy and Accountability in the Digital Age." Here is the...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its report reviewing the attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The report broadly faults the State Department and various intelligence agencies f...
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Your Lawfare team is ready with pen and paper, and bated breath, to hear oral arguments in the habeas-related appeal of Afghan detainee Obaydullah before the three-judge panel of D.C. Circuit Court of Ap...
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David Sanger and Thom Shanker have a lengthy story in the NYT about various NSA techniques for penetrating foreign computers and networks, including a strategy for accessing seemingly air-gapped computer...
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According to a Huffington Post story this afternoon, accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has penned a thirty-six page "Statement to the Crusaders of the Military Commissions at Guantanamo."
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing to review the Report of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. The scheduled witnesses are the members of the Revi...
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Yesterday, U.S. District Judge John Bates sent over two documents----a summary cover letter and a more detailed analysis---to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Delivered in Bates's capacity as the Dire...
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Iran may have agreed to an interim nuclear deal, but that hasn't stopped war from brewing on the home front.
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In his profile yesterday of DNI General Counsel Bob Litt, the Washington Post's Greg Miller writes:
Litt has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and causes, and friends describe...
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First up for the three-judge panel of D.C. Circuit Judges Merrick Garland, Karen LeCraft Henderson, and David Tatel this morning is its second oral argument related to the detention of Afghan detainee Ob...
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Since Edward Snowden unveiled the existence of NSA's mass surveillance programs in June, various government officials have gone on the record to claim that the programs have prevented terrorist attacks a...
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The Supreme Court today denied cert in the Samantar case, rejecting the Government’s recommendation to grant, vacate, and remand to the Fourth Circuit and instead allowing the Fourth Circuit’s decision t...
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Afghanistan: A Distant War Robert Nickelsberg; Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson; Introduction by Ahmad Nader Nadery Prestel U
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Let's start with nuclear news: Iran and six world powers---United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany---have completed an interim deal under which Tehran will temporarily slow its nuclear ...
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On Friday, President Obama is scheduled to announce his response to his Review Group on NSA matters, whose report I have been evaluating in this series of posts. The Review Group report covers a huge ran...
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Who will run cyberspace? It’s one of the most important questions in the world today. Yet few outside a narrow group of policy wonks, lawyers, technologists, and international bureaucrats are paying a...
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I just came across this excellent article, "Tinker, Tailor, Leaker, Spy: The Future Costs of Mass Leaks," by David V.
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The last few days have seen a flurry of diplomatic and law enforcement activity in both the United States and India that may bring the month-long Khobragade controversy to an end. In this post, I try to...
