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Congressional Control of Intelligence Programs (sometimes)
In the last ten days, an interesting controversy has bubbled up over congressional control of the drone program. The quarrel, which has been both internal to the Senate and between the Congress and the ... -
Lt. Col. Matthew Atkins on "The Personal Nature of War in High Definition"
I met Matthew Atkins, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force, recently at the Hoover Institution, where he is currently a military fellow. Lt. Col. Atkins has worked in targeting and intelligence a fair b... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Frederic Wehrey on "The Roots--and Blowback--of the New Sectarianism"
Examples of religious strife are numerous in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet more frequently, religious communities have lived side-by-side, if not always arm-in-arm. In the Middle East today, howev... -
A Guide to the Coming Onslaught of Presidential Administration
Scott Wilson has a long piece in the Washington Post about how “the White House is reorganizing itself to support a more executive-focused presidency” after concluding that it cannot get much done with C... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #59: How Osama bin Laden Escaped Afghanistan
The Brookings Intelligence Project hosted Foreign Service Officer Yaniv Barzilai on January 23, 2014 to discuss his new book, 102 Days of War---How Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban Survived 200... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week started, Lawfare continued with its coverage of last Friday’s presidential speech on surveillance reform. John wanted a strong condemnation of Edward Snowden, and was disappointed that the Pr... -
Modirzadeh on National Security Law as a Field
Naz Modirzadeh (Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project) has a paper in the latest issue of the Harvard National Security Journal that (i) posits the existence of distin... -
PCLOB Report -- The Short Version
Don't want to read the entire 230+ page report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Section 215? Have better things to do with your weekend, but still want to know what's happening? Th... -
D.C. Circuit on Obaydullah: New Evidence Unhelpful to Detainee's Case
The D.C. Circuit, in an exceedingly brief and quickly-issued per curiam judgment, has affirmed the district court's denial of Obaydullah's motion regarding newly-discovered evidence related to his habeas... -
How Likely Is A Successful Attack On The Electric Grid?
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The big news yesterday was the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's rather hefty report on NSA surveillance. If you didn't catch Paul's post yesterday on whether the PCLOB overstepped its charge... -
CNAS Report on War in the Robotic Age
Robert Work and Shawn Brimley of the Center for a New American Security just published 20YY: Preparing for War in the Robotic Age. It’s a provocative report about how many new technologies (in cyber, ro...
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