David Ignatius agrees with me, though he probably doesn't know it :-).  As I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Ignatius thinks that the paradoxical and unfortunate result of the Snowden disclosures may ...

That's the word from Guantanamo.  We hope to have an updated schedule for the case soon; it looks like the next pre-trial session will be convened in April.

Over at the Cyborgology blog, a woman named Whitney Erin Boesel has a thoughtful write-up of the Berkman Center event I spoke at the other day---and on which I posted my own thoughts here. Here's her las...

Charges against detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi were today referred to a military commission. Al Darbi, a Saudi citizen and alleged brother-in-law of 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar, has been...

My money is on the Russians.  NBC reports being hacked before the cup of coffee is served in Sochi:

Here's his response, published at Just Security, to my post this morning about legal density and NSA: Over at Lawfare, Ben Wittes is making excuses for the intelligence officials who’ve been saying th...

Ordinarily, on a day like today, yours truly would remind the Interwebs’ military commission-watchers of a pretrial hearing, next week, in the 9/11 case.  Usually I would make a plug for Lawfare’s covera...

Last week, DNI Clapper appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to give his annual World Wide Threat Assessment.  Once again cyber leads the list of most significant threats -- ahead o...

An old friend of mine, a mathematician at an elite college, told me some time back that---while still a student---he or she had done some work for NSA and been greatly relieved by the strict assurance gi...

That's the word from The Washington Post.