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Likely you know by now of this afternoon's 11-3 vote.
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A moment of levity from the NSA conference Bobby is hosting down at University of Texas. Towards the end of an excellent discussion between Hanni Fakhoury, Benjamin Powell and Ahmed Ghappour about the fu...
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Cyber security maven Dan Geer has given three speeches in the last six months that are worth a read: (a) APT in a World of Rising Interdependence, given last month at the NSA; (b) We Are All Intelligence...
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The leading, and tragic, news is a shooting yesterday at Fort Hood by an Iraq War veteran who killed three and wounded sixteen before killing himself. According to reports, the shooter, Ivan Lopez, was b...
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Sean Mirski, a Lawfare contributor, has a case note in the Harvard Law Review on the Second Circuit’s important post-Kiobel decision in Balintulo v.
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Here is a livestream of the conference, taking place today and tomorrow at the University of Texas, "The National Security Agency at the Crossroads."
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My very first Lawfare post, back in December 2011, focused on the messy constitutional question raised by United States v. Ali—a case then pending before the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces that ra...
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Secretary of State John Kerry cancelled his visit to Israel last night after President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority signed documents to join 15 international agencies---despite earlier havi...
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Our special guest this week is Michael Allen, former Majority Staff Director of the House intelligence committee. Mike is the founder of Beacon Global Strategies and the author of Blinking Red, the stor...
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With the White House conceptual framework and the HPSCI bill on the table, there may be a way forward on telephone metadata collection for foreign intelligence purposes.
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Continuing our dialogue about whether the ICCPR places limits on electronic surveillance by a state outside of its own territory, Ryan Goodman has posted a lengthy response to my response to his post abo...
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The vote was 99-1, according to the Main Justice blog. The lone "nay" was Senator Dean Heller (R-NV).
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The CIA misled the government and public about its enhanced interrogation program, according to officials with knowledge of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the program.
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Very interesting post over at Huffington Post from Geoffrey Stone about his Review Group service, his changed view of NSA, and trust of the spy agency. Quite moving, actually. Writes Stone:
From the outs...
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I haven't listened to this event yet, but I certainly plan to.
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I was on a panel at American University on Friday to discuss cyber and the role of corporations. Ben was on the same panel and the moderator (Dan Marcus) introduced Ben as the "James Madison of the Lawf...
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We begin the week with cybersecurity. On Friday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a lengthy speech on cyber policy at Gen. Keith Alexander's retirement ceremony. The Secretary stated that the Pentag...
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On Thursday, I posted this item noting a possible convergence of civil liberties interests and NSA's operational needs in the President's metadata proposal.
