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The Foreign Policy Essay: ISIS’s Rejection of Al Qaeda—The End of an Era?
Editor’s Note: Cooperation among terrorist groups is dangerous, making them far more flexible and lethal in their operations. Yet such cooperation is rare, and when it occurs it can be fraught with prob... -
The Latest Snowden Leak: NSA Isn't Spying on Lawyers
Unless the public is really tiring of matters Snowden, the New York Times’s latest is going to stir up the hornet’s nest. “Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm,” blares the headline of the story... -
EU To US: Let Us In Now!
There’s diplomacy and then there is chutzpah. I have to think that the latest move by the European Union on the visa front is closer to the later than to the former. The EU has demanded that, within si... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #62: Benjamin Wittes and Conor Friedersdorf Debate the Ethics of Drones
Last November, the University of Richmond invited Ben and Conor Friedersdorf to participate in a debate on the ethics of drone warfare. Conor is a familiar voice in the anti-drone camp, as those who have... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As this past week began, Ben expressed some exasperation with Angela Merkel and State Department officials for whining like a “bunch of babies” in their responses to the release of an undiplomatic phone ... -
Our Recent Cybersecurity Problems---and an Appeal for Reader Help
I am writing both to update readers on the attacks on Lawfare that took place this week and to make a frank fundraising appeal for reader help in addressing them. As readers know, we have been hit since... -
Bruce Schneier on NSA v. Private Meta-Data Storage
In December I said this about the Presidential Review Group’s recommendation to transfer meta-data from NSA to private control: “I understand the Report’s concerns about the storage of bulk meta-data by ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, Ritika and Yishai told you about the NSA memo that reveals that Edward Snowden used the login information of a civilian employee of the NSA to gain access to classified documents. -
Intelligence Squared Debate: "Snowden Was Justified"
The ACLU's Ben Wizner and Daniel Ellsberg vs. former CIA Director James Woolsey and Andrew McCarthy:Snowden Was Justified from -
Radiolab on the History of the Glomar Response
This is one of the coolest half hours of national security radio I have heard in a long time. The excellent public radio show Radiolab---and reporter Julia Barton---have put together the story of where t... -
No “No Spy” Agreements?
President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries. Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un... -
Spinning the IMF Report on Iran Sanctions
I am amused today by these two headlines about the IMF's just-released assessment of Iran's economy and the effects of remaining sanctions: the New York Times reports that I.M.F.
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