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Today’s Headlines and Commentary
This weekend saw some logistical hurdles in an otherwise surprisingly smooth road to Syrian chemical weapons elimination. A newly developed plan to transport the weapons out of the country by roads that ... -
Video of Events from the Federalist Society Convention last Week
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CSPAN Newsmaker Interview on Patrick Leahy on NSA Collection
Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching. -
Readings: Christine Fair, "Drones, Spies, Terrorists and Second-Class Citizenship in Pakistan - A Review Essay"
Georgetown University political scientist C. Christine Fair has been a leading voice in challenging much of the conventional wisdom about the nature of conflict in Pakistan, including the role of US dron... -
Criminal or Political Protestor?
Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday. That's the maximum sentence he could have gotten for his plea of guilty to a single instance of hacking a computer. Readers of this blog wi... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Privacy---worldwide privacy, that is: Last week Just Security’s David Cole argued for the existence of a global right to privacy, a claim to which Orin Kerr disagreed on... -
Colbert on Mike Rogers and Steve Vladeck
I missed this a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty funny. -
Extraterritorial Right to Privacy: A Response by Luca Urech
Luca Urech (Fletcher School, MA candidate in Law and Diplomacy) has written in with the following reaction to my post on the extraterritorial right to privacy, discussing how we might apply the concept o... -
DOJ Reviewing Criminal Cases Utilizing FISA Intelligence, Will Notify Defendants
So reports Sari Horwitz at the Washington Post, who learned of this effort in an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder. In Clapper v. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Would a cyber attack on the most vulnerable nodes of the U.S. power grid paralyze us, or would we be prepared? That's what 10,000 war gamers tried to assess in a simulation this week. -
Building a Grenade with Materials Purchased After Airport Security
Great. Just great. The explosion is not all that impressive, but I sure wouldn't want to be on an airplane when it happened. More information available here<... -
The First Circuit and the First Amendment
This week’s much-anticipated decision by the First Circuit in Mehanna v.
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