On Monday, Judge Dora Irizarry of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a suit brought under the Alien Tort Statute and the Antiterrorism Act against two former Directors of Pakistan's Inter-Service...

The oral arguments in Monday’s D.C. Circuit en banc review of Ali Hamza al Bahlul’s military commission conspiracy conviction essentially came down to competing views of history. The government concedes ...

Two pieces in the news worth noting on the issue of secrecy v. transparency in the U.S. intelligence world.

As far as legal remedies go for software vulnerabilities, code might as well be crack cocaine. So I suggest in my piece today over at Lawfare's new feed at the New Republic: Security States. This is the ...

I write often about the power of cyberspace and the threats that arise from it -- most recently in discussing how the Syrian Electronic Army is an important contingency to plan for during military operat...

That is the gist of this quite important filing, made today by the Justice Department, in the case of Idris v. Obama.  It begins: Respondents respectfully submit this response to Petitioner’s Motion...

It isn't strictly a national security law topic, but I thought I would share my experience in renewing my passport this past week.  I returned home from Abu Dhabi on September 21, with a passport that wa...

The Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), made a lengthy floor statement yesterday on the ongoing government shutdown.  Her remarks dedicated a section to the fiasco's ...