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John Oliver Interview with Edward Snowden
Some of it is very funny. And there's a very interesting discussion starting at 19:30 about how well he understood---and to what extent he read---the documents he disclosed. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A story that broke on Thursday became all the more horrific as details poured in over the weekend: Somali militants associated with the Shabab slaughtered 147 students at Garissa Univeristy College in Ea... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Eliminating Terrorist Safe Havens—One Size Does Not Fit All
Editor’s Note: Since 9/11, the United States has sought to prevent terrorists from enjoying safe havens from which they can build their organizations and plot attacks. Yet the term “safe haven” means dif... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Who is Vladimir Putin?
With a tenuous ceasefire holding in Ukraine, we asked Fiona Hill onto the show to discuss the man behind the unrest: Vladimir Putin. Hill is the co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, and a Se... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Happy Anniversary! On Tuesday, John Bellinger marked ten years since passage of UN Security Counsel Resolution 1593, the resolution that referred the situation in Darfur, Sudan to the Prosecutor of the I... -
Key Documents on the Iran Deal
For those who want the key primary source materials on yesterday's Iran nuclear deal, here they are. The US Government issued a fact sheet on the parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JC... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, President Obama announced a preliminary agreement with Iran that would significantly scale back Iran’s nuclear capabilities. The details of the interim agreement, nicely summarized over at the... -
The Brennan Center Report on the FISA Court and Proposals for FISA Reform
As Wells noted when it first came out last month, the Brennan Center has a new report: What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. Despite the title, the report is really a condensed history of the Foreign Inte... -
On Palestine's Decision to "Hold Off" on Referring the Situation in Palestine to the ICC
Yesterday there was a small ceremony at the International Criminal Court to mark Palestine becoming the 123rd State Party to the Rome Statute. For all the attention this event received, what might ultim... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Al-Qaeda militants seized al Mukallah prison in southeastern Yemen this morning, and in doing so, freed a number of inmates. Reports conflict as to how many prisoners escaped. BBC News reports 150; CNN s... -
Entertainment IS Critical Infrastructure -- Who Knew?
I stand corrected. Yesterday, in my post about the new cyber-sanctions EO I made the point that it wouldn't apply to the Sony hack because Sony was not critical infrastructure. I was wrong, as several... -
An Apparently Real Paintball Drone
Yesterday, I was up at Harvard Law School on a panel with Gabriella Blum talking about our new book: The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat.
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