. . . nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama, in the State of the Union address tonight, made the following remarks: Tonight, because of the extraordinary troops and civilians who risk and lay down their lives to keep us free, the U...

Today, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi.

Speaking of agency general counsels (as I did in my post yesterday morning about the appointment of Jim Baker as FBI General Counsel), many foreign governments are wondering when President Obama will nom...

Late last year, as one of the fall outs from the Snowden disclosures, the NSA announced its intention to fill a completely new office -- a civil liberties and privacy officer who would serve as a direct ...

An innovative thinker, David McMahon, of SecDev sent me a fascinating piece the other day entitled Think Big on Cyber.  The folks at SecDev do some of the most cutting edge security work I know and they ...

What harm has Edward Snowden done to his country? When Snowden asserts that the National Security Agency listens to encrypted Russian diplomatic traffic, it takes the Russians about twenty minutes to sh...

I have an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal entitled "This Other Deal With Iran Is Obsolete" in which I argue that the current discussions between the US and Iran to reach a permanent agreement regard...

Remember Mali?  We don't hear much about it these days, but it still suffers from the presence of armed groups of Islamist extremists in the north, and the French military is still there and using force ...

The Supreme Court today decided Air Wisconsin v.

On the anniversary of the January 25 uprisings, television screens across Egypt broadcast dance performances on the stage in Tahrir square, smiling children with Egyptian flags painted on their faces, an...