Latest in Highlights
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With 
-
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
-
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... -
Today's Headlines and Commenary
As the nation continues to grapple with tragedy in Orlando, FBI Director James Comey said to the Wall Street Journal that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was likely radicalized online and may have been inspire... -
Gay and From a Muslim Family in Iraq
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Two forbidden passions, not a love triangle but a pentagon, murderous militias, acid poisoning, an indecent proposal—the stories of five gay and lesbian Iraqis’ escape from their home cou... -
Hot Commodities: You Win Some, You Lose Some
Not a Drop to Share -
A Bipartisan Call for Serious Consideration of Potential Solutions to the Encryption Challenge
Although we served as national security officials for Presidents from different parties, we stand united in our concern for the growing threat of a significant terrorist attack on our shores, due to the ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Information continues to flow in today as law enforcement and intelligence officials release new details about the horrific mass shooting that took place in Orlando just over 24 hours ago. According to m...
Topics
