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Of all the revelations from the Snowden leaks, I find the NSA's subversion of the National Institute of Standards's (NIST) random number generator to be particularly disturbing. Our security is only as g...
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The violence between Israel and Hamas continues to dominate headlines today.
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The Washington Post reports of a new ruling from the military judge yesterday---which I have yet to see, and which isn't yet available on the military commissions' website. The gist:
A military judge ru...
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The release last month of the Al-Aulaqi Office of Legal Counsel memo, it turns out, was not the end of the Second Circuit litigation regarding the New York Times and ACLU’s FOIA requests for information ...
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As crises continue around the world, the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project yesterday unveiled an interactive map, which visualizes the many protests and conflicts occurring gl...
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The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") today handed down a pair of judgments in long-running human rights cases brought against Poland by two U.S. terrorism detainees---Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al Rahim...
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The New York Times the other day ran this story about an interview Edward Snowden gave to the Guardian in Moscow. The Guardian interview made a few waves because of Snowden's claim that NSA analysts pass...
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This time it's Mohammad Rimi, transferred to Libya back in 2006. The judge is Richard Leon. Here's the opinion. Here's the order.
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Over at the Intercept, Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux have this piece on the NCTC's guidelines for adding citizens and foreigners to terrorism watchlists.
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A distinctly conflict oriented flavor today:
Inside Anonymous' Cyber War Against the Israeli Government. "The shadowy hacker collective known as Anonymous has announced it will launch a round of cyber-...
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This morning, the New York Times remarks on the many global crises that President Obama is currently facing: “Rarely has a president been confronted with so many seemingly disparate foreign policy crises...
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist the title which does not reflect my true feelings about CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014. Approved earlier this month by the Senate Intelligence Comm...
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So reports the LA Times. Here's a short summary:
As part of the deal, the intelligence community agreed to a stricter definition of the search terms the NSA may use to seek data from telephone companies...
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David Anderson, the U.K.'s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, has released his annual report on British terrorism laws. The report covers several broad topics: ethnic or community bias in the...
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Our guest this week is noted computer law guru Orin Kerr, and the podcast is a deep dive into technology and law.
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The bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas continues. The Washington Post reports that Hamas has announced that it has captured an Israeli soldier, after a long battle on Sunday in an East Gaza neighbo...
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Thanks to some heroic contributors over the weekend, we are nearly halfway to having raised the funds to redesign and rebuild Lawfare. If you are one of the people who has made this possible, many thanks...
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Chris Cillizza has a piece in the WP that argues that the world is too splintered and partisan and complex, and communication and persuasion too difficult, for the president of the United States to succe...
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Ever since the Edward Snowden revelations began, countries outraged by U.S. intelligence practices have been batting around the idea of forcing countries to store data on their citizens within those coun...
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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has denied Djamel Ameziane's petition for habeas relief and granted the government's motion to dismiss in Amezaine v.
