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"Carrying Arms Openly," Drones, and Covert Action
Jens David Ohlin (Cornell) has an interesting post up at LieberCode in which he discusses a range of LOAC issues raised by CIA involvement in drone strikes. Jens raises the question whether CIA personne... -
DOD Responds--Cryptically--to CCR Hunger Strike Letter
See this letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Lietzau, on behalf of Secretary Hagel... At bottom, it seems increasingly clear that there are two very different accounts out there about what... -
Opposition to the House Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) Draft
Last week I noted that the House Judiciary Committee was circulating a proposal to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that was mostly a wish list for the Department of Justice. Yesterday a diverse... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The number of hungry detainees at Guantanamo Bay has, unfortunately, grown to 39. Peter Finn and Julie Tate of the Washington Post have more about the situation and the detainees’ qualms that led to the ... -
Steve Vladeck, Role Model
Congratulations to Lawfare's very own Steve Vladeck who, in his day job as professor and associate dean for scholarship at Washington College of Law, American University, has just been awarded the 2013 "... -
A Response to Marcy Wheeler on Jonathan Fredman
It took only a few minutes from the time I posted my defense of CIA lawyer Jonathan Fredman last night for Marcy Wheeler (aka emptywheel) to begin tweeting bile against both Fredman and me. She used word... -
Ramzi Kassem on Chief Judge Lamberth's <em>Barre</em> Decision
Last Monday, I flagged Chief Judge Lamberth's important new decision in a Guantánamo habeas case--Barre v. Obama--in which, among other things, he excoriated the government for how long it has taken them... -
Radio Times Episode this Morning on Guantanamo Bay
A good discussion on WHYY’s Radio Times of current goings on at Guantanamo Bay---with Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald, David Frakt of University of Pittsburgh Law School, and me. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Google's come out with a brand-new product. All I can say is, "Wow. -
Judge Pierre Leval Defends the Alien Tort Statute
This is old news by now, but Judge Pierre Leval of the Second Circuit has a thoughtful article in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs (behind a paywall, unfortunately) entitled "The Long Arm of Int... -
The =Real= Internet Kill Switch
Last year, as Congress debated cybersecurity, some worried about an "internet kill switch" -- that is, the authority for the President to order access to the internet cut off. As the debate resumes this... -
The Market for Zero Day Exploits
The Economist has an excellent short article on the growing market for zero-day exploits (that is, vulnerabilities in software). As my friend Chris Soghoian observed there is more information here than ...
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