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Orlando and the War on Terror
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on the Brookings publication Order from Chaos. -
Congressional Oversight of US Foreign Relations
Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Relations -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United Nations yesterday said that the Islamic State is committing war crimes including genocide against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria, according to a report reviewed by the Associated Pres... -
Shift to JSOC on Drone Strikes Does Not Mean CIA Has Been Sidelined
Greg Miller has an interesting and seemingly quite well-sourced article in the Washington Post today documenting (and offering explanations for) a significant decline in CIA drone strikes. To be clear, ... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: The Europocrisy Prize Edition
European hypocrisy on data protection is a lot like the weather. Everyone complains about it but no one does anything about it. Until today. -
Rational Security: The "Orlando" Edition
How did Omar Mateen become a mass-killer, and could he have been stopped? The politics of the Orlando shooting have something for everyone, but very little clarity. And Russian hackers penetrate the Demo... -
State of the Field Conference for Cyber Conflict
In 2003 the Cyber-Conflict Studies Association was founded to foster the academic study of a new discipline -- conflict in the cyber domain. At the time they were more in the nature of Cassandra's tryi... -
Terror Watch Lists and Adverse Action
In the wake of the Orlando shootings, many have suggested that the presence of Omar Mateen on the terrorist watch list is grounds for ... well, lots of things, ranging from denying him a firearms purchas... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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CIA Releases Documents Related to Enhanced Interrogation Program
Yesterday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Central Intelligence Agency released over 50 documents related to the agency's enhanced int... -
NATO's Designation of Cyber as an Operational Domain of Conflict
NATO recently announced that it will regard cyber as a domain of conflict, joining land, sea, and air as other domains in which conflict may occur. At a press conference on June 14, 2016, NATO Secretary ... -
Reflections on Secrecy and the Press from a Life in Journalism
PDF version Though I have been a journalist for most of my career, my experience with overclassification and the vagaries of declassification began in 1969 during an eighteenmonth stint running a subcom...
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