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Homeland Security Committee's Cyber Bill a Missed Opportunity
Today, the House Homeland Security Committee marked up a cybersecurity information sharing bill that promised to be “the best of bunch” in terms of civil liberties protections among the cybersecurity inf... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Dmitri Alperovitch
Our guest for Episode 62 is Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Inc. and former Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee. -
A Primer on Globally Harmonizing Internet Jurisdiction and Regulations
That is the title of a paper I recently co-authored with former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. We wrote it for the Global Commission on Internet Governance, a commission chaired by fo... -
Open Society Justice Initiative Issues New Report on U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen
The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) has released a new report that documents civilian casualties caused by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Breaking news this morning out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) and ranking Democrat Benjamin Cardin of Maryland have reached a compromise on a bill that will g... -
Reminder: Get Yer Tickets for the Triple Entente Beer Summit!
They're the hottest item in the national security world. And they're going fast. -
The AUMF is Dead. Long Live the AUMF.
The Hill is reporting this morning that Republican congressional leaders have declared the President's AUMF proposal dead: President Obama’s proposal for the use of military force against the Islamic Sta... -
Polite Sabotage: The Attempt to Gut the Iran Oversight Bill by Amendment
This morning’s New York Times has an excellent article outlining the debate over Senator Corker’s Iran deal oversight bill---likely heading for mark-up tomorrow. -
On the FISA Court and "Rubber Stamping"
In preparing for a lecture that I need to give that includes a discussion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, I once again came across the (true) claim that the FISA court (FISC) denies only a ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Associated Press reports two U.S. drones killed two leaders of al-Qaeda’s South Asia branch earlier this year in Pakistan. -
The New York Times's Latest Kill List Story
The New York Times this morning has a story on the internal debate within the administration over whether to capture or kill a U.S. -
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