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Today's Headlines and Commentary
In a historic speech, today, President Barack Obama announced that the United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba, opening an embassy in Havana, reviewing Cuba’s designation as a stat... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Mosul on the Mediterranean? The Islamic State in Libya and U.S. Counterterrorism Dilemmas
Editor’s Note: After the United States helped overthrow Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, Libya was put on the back burner of U.S. policy even as its problems mounted. Moments of horrific anti-U.S. violence, like... -
The 2014 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference
Last Friday, the Cato Institute held an all-day conference to explore the questions raised by the growth of government surveillance, the revelations of NSA activities by Edward Snowden, and how these new... -
The Heroism of Effective Logistics: A Dispatch from Kerem Shalom
We witnessed a moving scene today---if the loading and unloading of trucks amid looming concrete security barriers can ever really be moving: A major joint Palestinian-Israeli operation to route goods in... -
Today's Headlines and Commentery
A devastating attack on a school in Pakistan by the Pakistani Taliban has left 145 dead. Nine attackers stormed a military-run school in Peshawar, open to both the children of civilians and military memb... -
The SSCI Report and Its Critics: Torturing Efficacy
Polarization surrounding the SSCI Report (see here for Lawfare’s coverage) has been most pronounced on the efficacy of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). The Report and its supporters have proclai... -
DOJ releases six FISC documents on StellarWind
The Department of Justice has released six Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) documents related to the surveillance activities originally initiated by President George W. -
Thoughts on the SSCI Report, Part I: Introduction and Overview
I have now spent enough quality time with the SSCI interrogation report---and with minority views and the CIA response---that I am ready to begin commenting upon it. This is not to say I have finished re... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Heavily armed Australian police have stormed a Sydney cafe in order to free several hostages held there at gunpoint. Two hostages and the gunman are dead. Reuters reports that the gunman, identified as M... -
On This Week's Scheduled Mini-Hearing in the 9/11 Case
Day one of the two-day hearing was apparently cancelled yesterday evening. We await the final word on tomorrow's planned session, though the odds of further in-court proceedings strike us as slim. At a... -
Our Collective Privacy Panic
We are told there is a privacy crisis. The Snowden revelation and other such things have given the sense that we are in a crisis. I think what we have is a privacy panic. What I would call the Snowden... -
Over 700 Million People Taking Steps to Avoid NSA Surveillance
There's a new international survey on Internet security and trust, of "23,376 Internet users in 24 countries," including "Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kon...
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