At one level, the D.C. Circuit's decision this week in Aamer v. Obama on Guantanamo hunger strikes probably surprised nobody. As expected, the D.C. Circuit upheld the two district court decision to deny ...

As I suggested last month, the Snowden disclosures are going to drive even our European allies to doubt America's bona fides as a steward of the internet.  Thus, we should not be surprised to learn that ...

Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").

According to the New York Observer, anyway, the news staff seems to agree with me: IT’S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at T...

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework has been released.  It is accompanied by a Roadmap which is intended to be a work plan for future efforts on issues (like authentication) that require further study and w...

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Security Agency is now only collecting "about 20% or less" of U.S. telephony metadata under the Section 215 program now acknowledged by the g...

In the past two decades or so, an enormous amount of academic international law and policy attention has gone to the concept of jus post bellum, or "post conflict justice."  There are various ways of ren...

Last September, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (in conjunction with the Aspen Institute) released a Task Force report on Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the US Department of...