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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
The big news heading into this week was that the U.S. conducted two nearly-simultaneous raids in Africa. -
SDNY Rejects Bid to Appoint Defense Counsel for Al-Liby
Politico's Josh Gerstein reports: A federal judge has rejected an attempt by defense lawyers to challenge the Obama administration's decision to hold alleged Al Qaeda member Abu Anas Al-Libi aboard a U.S... -
Bad Code: Part II
On a technical level, building secure software is really hard---but that's an argument for, not against, an intelligently designed liability regime. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The O.P.C.W. was founded in 1977 and was recently deployed to Syria after chem... -
German Intelligence Admits Email Spying
So reports the Wall Street Journal. As one of my colleagues commented "is anyone surprised?" Here's the lede: Germany’s foreign intelligence service acknowledged tapping data flowing through a key Fran... -
Obama and Alexander, Bush and Tenet
Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a piece suggesting that folks at NSA feel abandoned by President Obama's failure to defend the agency aggressively: Gen. Keith Alexander and his senior leadership... -
Government Shutdown? Guantanamo Detainee Seeks Oral Argument, Anyway
An intriguing development in a Guantanamo-related case ongoing during the government shutdown: detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam, who challenges Guantanamo transfer restrictions as incompatible with the Constitu... -
Al-Libi and Detention at Sea
While no navy captain likes stormy weather, the controversy over the temporary detention on a navy vessel of the captured Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi is a tempest in a teapot. As John Bellinger not... -
Critical Thoughts on New Report on Obama Leak Crackdown
Today the Committee to Protect Journalists published a very critical report on the Obama administration’s efforts to crack down on leakers and control the flow of secret information from government offic... -
How Snowden Might Help Cybersecurity
A few weeks ago the NYT had a piece by David Sanger about how the Snowden revelations will hurt if not kill the NSA’s ambitious plans for cybersecurity defense in the U.S. homeland. “Administration offi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States Government has announced that it will withhold certain military and economic aid from Egypt until substantive democratic progress is made in the country. Here is the text of a State Dep... -
Senate GOP Letter on Shutdown and National Security
Apropos of my exchange this morning with Jeremy Rabkin, Senate Republicans on Tuesday issued this letter asking President Obama to declare all national security workers to be "essential" and return them ...
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