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Today's Headlines and Commentary
NBC News obtained a National Security Agency memo that reveals that a civilian employee of the NSA gave one Edward Snowden his login information and password, which Snowden then used to access classified... -
Reader Hivemind Request for Input on Cyber Attacks
Our cyber attack this morning was a bit more serious than ones we have experienced in the past. And at least one reader reports persistent effects up until now. Please shoot me a note if you're noticing ... -
Aamer v. Obama and Boumediene Step Zero
At one level, the D.C. Circuit's decision this week in Aamer v. Obama on Guantanamo hunger strikes probably surprised nobody. As expected, the D.C. Circuit upheld the two district court decision to deny ... -
Technical Difficulties
As readers may have noticed, we have had another outage this morning. We are looking into the cause and will keep readers posted. Our apologies. UPDATE: We are informed by our technical folks at Blue Wa... -
And So It Begins ....
As I suggested last month, the Snowden disclosures are going to drive even our European allies to doubt America's bona fides as a steward of the internet. Thus, we should not be surprised to learn that ... -
Latest Batch of Declassified 215 Orders from the FISC
Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC"). -
Looks Like I'm Not Alone in My View of the New York Times Editorial Page
According to the New York Observer, anyway, the news staff seems to agree with me: IT’S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at T... -
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...
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