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NIST Cybersecurity Framework Issued
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework has been released. It is accompanied by a Roadmap which is intended to be a work plan for future efforts on issues (like authentication) that require further study and w... -
The Curious Case of the Missing Metadata
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Security Agency is now only collecting "about 20% or less" of U.S. telephony metadata under the Section 215 program now acknowledged by the g... -
PCLOB Testifies Before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Surveillance
The hearing is happening now, and can be viewed over at the Judiciary Committee's website or at C-SPAN. The witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be: The Honorable David M... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
French President François Hollande is in the United States, visiting President Obama. Last night, Hollande was honored at an extravagant State Dinner, before which President Obama affirmed that U.S.---Fr... -
Readings: A Critique of 'Jus Post Bellum' in International Law, by Eric De Brabandere
In the past two decades or so, an enormous amount of academic international law and policy attention has gone to the concept of jus post bellum, or "post conflict justice." There are various ways of ren... -
Homeland Confusion -- Reforming Congressional Oversight Of DHS
Last September, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (in conjunction with the Aspen Institute) released a Task Force report on Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the US Department of... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Jack flagged the morning's stories about a debate within the Obama Administration over ordering a drone strike against another American citizen associated with Al Qaeda. -
DC Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Relief in Hunger Strike Case---But Finds No Statutory Bar to Conditions Challenge
The panel's decision in the closely-watched case of Aamer v. Obama was handed down this morning. The majority opinion opens: TATEL, Circuit Judge: Petitioners Ahmed Belbacha, Abu Dhiab, and Shaker Aame... -
The ISIS Expulsion and the AUMF
Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller report in the WP that Al-Qaeda’s recent expulsion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has raised questions about whether the AUMF “still applies” to ISIS. -
"The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster," by Edward Lucas
Published by Amazon Kindle Single (2014) Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes Over the past few weeks, several members of congressional intelligence committees have intimated that Edward Snowden might have bee... -
Reactions to Stories on Possible New U.S. Citizen Strike
Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ). The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C -
Official Announcement of Permissible Uses of Bulk Collection
One of the policy questions kicked to the DNI in PDD-28 was defining the permissible uses of bulk collection. Thanks to Thomas Earnest over at Just Security, I just noticed that the DNI has now done so.
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