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Another Arrest of a U.S. Citizen Allegedly Inspired by ISIL to Plot an Attack
Matt Apuzzo and Michael Schmidt had a piece in the New York Times yesterday discussing the Justice Department's shift towards aggressive and early intervention in cases involving suspected ISIL followers... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #77: An Interview with Bruce Andrews
Our guest for episode 77 is Bruce Andrews, the deputy secretary of the Commerce Department. Alan Cohn and I pepper Bruce with questions about export controls on cybersecurity technology, stopping commerc... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
NATO ambassadors met in Brussels today to discuss Turkey’s security situation: In response to a series of terror attacks within its borders, Turkey “has begun firing against... Islamic State positions in... -
NSA Will Destroy Section 215 Records
According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Agency will no longer access the historical metadata collected under Section 215 after the 180-day transition perio... -
White House Responds to Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden
Today, the White House released a response to a petition to pardon Edward Snowden. The original petition, filed on June 9th, 2013, has received 167,954 signatures and reads: Edward Snowden is a nationa... -
HFAC Hearing on Iran Deal
Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz provided testimony on the Iran nuclear deal today before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. You... -
The Best US Database to Hack? A Lawfare Contest
Yesterday, each of us considered the question of which unclassified databases in the U.S. would be worth it for the Chinese to hack next. In writing these pieces, we realized that this is what the milita... -
A Public Split: Listening to the Conversation at Aspen
What the Aspen Security Summit brought this year were strong words by former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and former Director of the National Counterintelligence Center Michael Leiter ... -
Summer's Unexpected Thrill
If you haven’t yet had a chance to mentally pause from digesting all the heavy news of the summer – ISIL’s expansion, domestic mass shootings, and extraordinary breaches of sensitive information, to name... -
Unclassified Databases for the Chinese Part II
Ben's list of unclassified databases for the Chinese to steal is just too much fun not to follow up. At the risk of piling on, here are a few more that a good Chinese spy ought to look at: -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Turkey has made a dramatic entrance into the war against the Islamic State. Following an agreement late last week about between Turkey and the United States to allow American forces to utilize a Turkish ... -
More Weak Arguments For The Illegality of the Iran Deal
David Rivkin and Lee Casey maintain in the WSJ that the Iranian Nuclear Deal “is unconstitutional, violates international law and features commitments that President Obama could not lawfully make,” and t...
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