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Some Notes on the University of New Hampshire Sextortion Report
As Ben noted last week, Janis Wolak and David Finkelhor of the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center recently released a new report on sextortion, funded by Thorn. I have ... -
Reminder: A Hoover Non-Book Soiree, Walter Pincus on the Norms of National Security Reporting
The next in our series of soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Wednesday, when Ben interviews Walter Pincus about his new essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and the Press ... -
Brexit: The UK Goes Back to the Future
Editor's Note: Is the United Kingdom part of Europe? Perhaps influenced too much by my childhood Risk board, my answer has long been “yes.” But the Brexit vote calls this identity into question, and unce... -
Senate Approves Two More Treaties, Bringing Obama Administration's Treaty Record to Fifteen
On Thursday night, the Senate approved two treaties by unanimous consent: an extradition treaty with Chile and an extradition treaty with the Dominican Republic. This brings to six the number of treatie... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Will McCants on "A Caliphate Without a Caliphate"
Will McCants, a Senior Fellow at Brookings and the Director of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World, comes on the podcast to discuss ISIS’s involvement in the recent spate of terrorist att... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Julian Ku provided us with swift commentary after the Philippines’ sweeping victory in the South China Sea arbitration on Tuesday morning. The next morning, he considered the legal justifications for the... -
U.S. Government Presents Draft Legislation for Cross-Border Data Requests
The government’s long-awaited proposal for addressing cross-border data requests, in the form of draft legislation, is finally here. The government also provided a section-by-section analysis and a desc... -
A Dissertation on the Strategic Logic of Military Coups
In light of the coup attempt in Turkey (still apparently underway at this writing), I want to note a fairly recent book on coup d'etats from a political science perspective . -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Rep. Will Hurd
What’s the difference between serving in Congress and spying in the back alleys of a Middle Eastern bazaar? Why not ask the one Congressman who’s done both – Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX). He also has cybersec... -
Iran’s Arbitrary Arrests Hurt It More than “Westoxication” Ever Could
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Markaz. *** -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 7/12 Session: Deja Vu All Over Again
And we’re back—though not to the 9/11 case or the Al Nashiri case, but instead to the pre-trial hearing of Abd al Hadi al Iraqi. As Nora Ellingsen detailed when Hadi’s case first came before the commissi... -
House Intel Committee Releases Missing 28 Pages from 9/11 Inquiry
The House Intelligence Committee today released the long-classified 28 pages of a 2002 congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks that deal with the alleged role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks.
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