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Lawfare Podcast Episode #50: DIA Chief Lt. General Michael T. Flynn Speaks at Brookings
On November 20, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel hosted an event with Lt. General Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Sponsored jointly with the National Intelligence Universit... -
Peter Shane Asks: "Can A Secret Court Advance the Rule of Law?"
Ohio State law professor Peter Shane writes in with the following thoughts on recent revelations about the FISA Court: Edward Snowden’s leaks and the ODNI’s subsequent declassification program have shed ... -
Readings: Caelum Liberam: Air Defense Identification Zones Outside Sovereign Airspace, by Peter A. Dutton
Given all the discussion around China's controversial announcement this past week of an "Air Defense Identification Zone" in the East China Sea, it seems like a good moment for a Reading on the law and s... -
Bruce Riedel on the Mumbai Attacks, Five Years Later
My Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel has an essay up on the Brookings web site entitled, "Five Years On, Mumbai Terror Masterminds Still at Large." It opens: Five years ago, the city of Mumbai was atta... -
Whither Hamidullah? Briefs on Bagram Habeas Petition Status Post-Repatriation
The briefing regarding the mootness of the habeas appeal of the now-former Bagram detainee, Hamidullah, is before the D.C. Circuit. Last week the U.S. government informed Hamidullah's attorneys that he h... -
Madison’s Vacillations—And Ours: Seeing a Founder, an Opposition Leader, a Muddle-Through Executive, and a Wartime President in Ourselves
Americans vacillate over national security and government power. We want an effective intelligence community, but we do not want too much surveillance or collection. We want to rein in the NSA, but we al... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Your pre-Turkey Day news roundup begins with the NSA. Shane Harris at Foreign Policy gives us the scoop on Fran Fleisch, the woman behind the scenes who has kept the wheel greased as Gen. Keith Alexander... -
Cyber and the NDAA
Congress is in recess now (that's why it's so quiet here in Washington) and when they return the first order of business for the Senate is to take up the 2014 NDAA. The bill, authorizing activities of ... -
More Filings Re: Hunger-Striker’s Motion to Intervene in Aamer v. Obama
Three updates in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal to the D.C. Circuit. On November 14, the government filed its opposition to Guantanamo detainee Imad Abdullah Hassan’s motion to interve... -
The November NSA Trove VII: The 2011 U.S. SIGINT Directive
The November NSA cache declassified by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper last week includes two United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) documents. The more important of the ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's take a brief detour from Iran, Syria and NSA surveillance, and talk about GTMO: Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo write, for the Associated Press, about "Penny Lane," a secret site at the Guantanamo Bay... -
Call for Papers: Syracuse University Journal for Terrorism and Security Analysis
CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Annual Conference on National and International Security at the Syracuse University Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs The Pivot: Challenges to Global Security in Asia
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