The modern world is a virtual panopticon, a surveillance state which records huge quantities of data about our every action and provides an easily retrievable metadata record of our movements, our contac...

In a video posted to Youtube a few days ago, the hacker collective Anonymous proclaimed it would go after ISIS in response to the Paris attacks, in a campaign labeled #OpParis (there's an official twitte...

Russia now says that it believes that ISIS was behind the crash of a commercial Russian aircraft, Metrojet 9268, over the Sinai desert on October 31 which killed the 224 people on board. Like the Paris ...

Josh Gerstein has a nice summary of Attorney General Lynch’s testimony yesterday concerning the closure of GTMO (minutes 44-48 or so here). A key passage:

The unseemly spectacle of governors and presidential candidates—leaders and would-be leaders of states and the nation at large—tripping over one another to confuse the victims of ISIS with ISIS itself an...

A variety of sources are reporting that the terrorists in Paris used encryption that may have thwarted intelligence efforts to monitor their pre-attack activities. (See, for example, today's New York Tim...

The United States has been unable to synchronize successful air and sea freedom of navigation (FON) operations in the South China Sea with an erratic diplomatic message and a legal case that is too cleve...

Every hour, it seems, another governor is finding the nearest microphone to proclaim that, after Friday's barbaric attacks in Paris, none of the 10,000 Syrian refugees that the federal government still p...