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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Hezbollah asked for a ceasefire with Israel through UN intermediaries yesterday. The request came after several days of fighting and heightened tensions between the two sides. The Wall Street Journal rep... -
Neither War Nor Peace: Israel's Northern Borders
For now, the recent eruption of violence along the Israeli-Lebanese border appears to be contained. With thousands of its fighters bogged down in Syrian battles, Hezbollah’s strategic context is radicall... -
Declassified FISA Court Orders Fill in History of NSA Warrantless Surveillance
Some key news from earlier in the week: The New York Times obtained two previously classified rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) from May and August 2007. Authored by Judge Rog... -
Wednesday and Thursday at the Military Commissions: Al Hadi
Editor’s Note: This post represents a modest adjustment in Lawfare‘s military commissions coverage, one made necessary in part because of the surge in criminal hearings at Guantanamo in the coming weeks ... -
Throwback Thursday: Rewards and Bounties
On January 5, Dominic Ongwen, senior commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, was captured by Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR). Subsequently, the rebels transferred Ongwen to the US mi... -
National Security Issues Discussed at Yesterday's AG Confirmation Hearing
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began the first of two day-long hearings on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General of the United States. -
The Intercept's Invitation to Criminality---and to Intelligence Agencies
The Intercept posted an interesting document yesterday designed to help a certain class of would-be-criminals---leakers of classified information---but which will, I would imagine, interest a different g... -
PCLOB Releases Recommendation Assessment Report
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has released an assessment of the status of each of the Board's 22 recommendations regarding Section 215 and Section 702 programs. More information, inclu... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Members of the Iranian parliament have introduced a bill that would nullify a 2013 interim nuclear deal if any new sanctions---which have already been proposed in the US Congress---are imposed on the cou... -
Bits and Bytes
You go off line for 3 days and so much worth noting happens! Here are some recent developments: DHS Ooops. Responding to a FOIA request regarding Operation Aurora (a Chinese attack on Google) DHS acci... -
Rational Security, Episode #4: "The Cold War is Hot"
The fourth episode of Rational Security, the new podcast Shane Harris is doing with me and Tamara Cofman Wittes, is now out. -
Safe Havens Still Matter
Micah Zenko and Amelia M. Wolf, both with the Council on Foreign Relations, have a new piece in Foreign Policy which argues against the “myth” that safe havens allow terrorists a space in which to flouri...
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