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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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I am stoked to post the first installment of Lawfare’s latest (and perhaps most peculiar) experimental feature: "Ask Wells."
The format, as Benjamin Wittes explained earlier, is straightforward. Reader...
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The Arab world’s foreign fighter problem makes the West’s concerns seem minor. Specific numbers should be treated with suspicion, but the current estimate is that there are roughly 15,000 foreign fighter...
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This Thursday, FBI Director James B. Comey gave a speech at the Brookings Institution and was interviewed by our very own Benjamin Wittes. Besides giving a shoutout to Lawfare, which Comey apparently rea...
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According to Military Times, “Air Force drones in Turkey have received the OK to join the fight” against ISIS.
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Yesterday, I posted an appeal for reader support---one that should make you feel all warm and fuzzy about donating to Lawfare:
Here's another way to support Lawfare, one t
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Susan Landau has a new paper – entitled Under the Radar: NSA's Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure – up at the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. From the abstra...
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Happening between now and Saturday: an important conference at the University of Texas at Austin (sponsored by UT's Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, which I direct, as well as UT...
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The director of the FBI, James B. Comey, came to the Brookings Institution today to give a speech that was moderated by Lawfare’s own Benjamin Wittes.
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Our guest for the podcast is Shaun Waterman, editor of POLITICO Pro Cybersecurity. Shaun is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the BBC and United Press International; and an expert on counter...
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Photo Credit: Paul Morigi
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You can find the text of FBI Directory James Comey's remarks as delivered today at Brookings here or below.
They begin:
Good morning. It’s an honor to be here.
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At 10:30 am, FBI Director James Comey will be at Brookings delivering a talk entitled, Going Dark: Are Technology, Privacy, and Public Safety on a Collision Course?
You can watch the livesteam below an...
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Last week I explained that a likely major reason for the Obama administration’s switch from an Article II rationale for air strikes against the Islamic State to an AUMF rationale (2001 and 2002) was comp...
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The other day, I listened to a fascinating episode of Freakonomics Radio featuring a lengthy discussion with a noted economist about what actually works in non-profit fundraising. I listened to this with...
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Yesterday, military leaders from countries involved in the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State met at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. The event was led by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ge...
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court asked for the views of the Solicitor General in Samantar v. Yousuf.
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Here it is, via First Look.
The latest from the U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Ben Emmerson QC, concludes a...
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We have an essay in The New Republic titled Obama, Not Bush, Is the Master of Unilateral War. It argues that President Obama, ironically in light of his own lofty rhetoric about lodging war decisions wi...
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Today the government filed a short response to the detainees' petition for an en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama, the Guantanamo counsel-access case.
Recall that last month the D.C. Circuit ordered the...
