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Waiting for Patel
The annual ritual has begun. Every June, official Washington waits in anticipation for the Supreme Court to complete its term. All of the "blockbuster" cases await decision. This year, most of the pre... -
Statement from al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent: "American's Neither Killed the 'Jew' Warren Weinstein Nor the 'Atheist' Giovanni Lo Porto"
Click here for the original post. -- الحمد للہ والصلوۃ والسلام علی رسول اللہ وبعد -
Michael Hayden: "Those Records are a Legitimate Foreign Intelligence Target"
Don't blame the Chinese for the OPM hack, says former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden. If Hayden had had the ability to get the equivalent Chinese records when running CIA or NSA, he says, "I would n... -
Second Circuit Rules That High-Level Bush Officials May be Sued For Post-9/11 Round-up of Immigrants
In what seems to be a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated claims against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and former INS... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Wall Street Journal reports that UN-sponsored talks over a ceasefire in Yemen have “hit a roadblock,” with the Houthi delegation unwilling to engage with the Yemeni government in exile. The delegatio... -
Rational Security, the "Am I an Iranian Agent?" Edition
It isn't every day that Iranian spies try to recruit you, so it's a special edition of Rational Security, one in which a front group for the Iranian intelligence services make a play for Shane Harris. If... -
The Functional Case Against Military Commission Trials of "Domestic" Offenses
As I explained on Sunday, one way to understand the diffference between the majority and dissenting opinions in last Friday's D.C. Circuit decision in al Bahlul v. United States is as reflecting two diff... -
Jihadology: Emergency Pod: Caucusus Jihadis in Disarray with Joanna Paraszczuk (June 16, 2015)
Welcome to an emergency Jihadology Podcast about the fluid situation amongst Caucasus jihadis in Syria and back at home. -
Why the Privacy Community Focuses Where it Does
I'm a little surprised by my colleague Ben's comments on the privacy community and its focus on NSA rather than China. I think he knows the answer to the question he's raising, and he's just doing a rhet... -
Do the Russians and Chinese Have the Snowden Documents?
On Wired I wrote about the anonymous and fact-free London Times story about the Russians and Chinese decrypting Snowden's archives. My verdict: these countries, and others, almost certainly have the enti... -
ISIS Captures: What’s the End-Game?
Last week, Nathalie and I wrote about the international law questions U.S. executive officials were likely considering while contemplating the continued detention and ultimate fate of the sole known ISIS... -
Omar al Bashir has left the Building (and the Country)
The international criminal law world was abuzz the last two days over the possibility that the President of Sudan, Omar al Bashir, might actually be arrested in South Africa on International Criminal Cou...
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