This morning both the WSJ (behind paywall) and NYT have stories on how law and lawyers have influenced the changing USG posture on intervening in Syria.  The gist of the WSJ story is that administration ...

The United States is pressing hard to get hold of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. But if and when Snowden is apprehended, what then? This question deserves attention, too, because the den...

Today's New York Times, brings a rich article by Nicole Perlroth and David Sanger on the growing market in zero-day exploits.  Zero-day exploits are previously unknown flaws in computer programming that ...

Crafted with his characteristic mix of brilliance and dark speculations about the motives of government actors, Stephen Holmes, my colleague, has published an exceptionally rich essay in the Financial Ti...

Available here. This report is Attorney General Eric Holder's response to President Obama's order of a review of departmental policies with respect to the media.

Last Friday afternoon, while many people were enjoying a long July 4th weekend, the Obama Administration quietly filed a remarkably strong amicus brief  urging the Supreme Court to reverse the Ninth Circ...

Readers will recall Monday's order by District Court Judge Gladys Kessler dismissing, on jurisdictional grounds, one of four GTMO detainees' motions for an injunction to stop force feeding.

CNN is reporting that Janet Napolitano has announced that she will leave the Department of Homeland Security in September to become President of the University of California system.  My speculation on re...