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Need to Dodge a Drone? Here are 22 Al Qaeda Tips
Yesterday, the AP released an English translation of what appears to be a 2011 Al Qaeda tip sheet. (AP journalists evidently found the document in Timbuktu.) Its author, AQAP senior commander Abdullah ... -
9/11 Case: Defense Lawyers May Visit Detention Facility, Investigate Conditions
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Pejman Yousefzadeh on Teaching Cybersecurity Using the Game of Go
Chicago lawyer Pejman Yousefzadeh writes in, at my request, with the following thoughts on teaching students to counter cyber threats using the ancient strategic game of Go. Pejman, who writes a very int... -
Neal Katyal on a Drone “National Security Court” Within the Executive Branch
Former Obama administration Acting and Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal has an interesting op-ed today in the NYT that criticizes the idea of an Article III “drone court” and proposes instead a “Nati... -
The USG Strategy to Confront Chinese Cyber Exploitation, and the Chinese Perspective
I have often asked whether the Obama administration had a strategy to confront the apparently enormous problem of cyber exploitation by the Chinese against U.S. firms. Yesterday it published the Adminis... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
As Steve mentioned yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the legal rationale for targeted killing next Wednesday. We should have more details---including a witness list---short... -
How to be Funny about Emotionless Killing Machines
Tuesday, Ben bemoaned the state of drone-themed humor in the New York Times, and followed it up yesterday morning with a tale of national security parody gone awry. -
Media Challenge Military Commission Protective Order, Seek Writ of Mandamus from CMCR
So we learn from this petition, filed with the Court of Military Commission Review ("CMCR") last Thursday. Here's a taste, from the document's "Preliminary Statement:" This petition for a writ of mandam... -
February 27 House Judiciary Hearing on "Drones and the War on Terror"
For those who can't get in to the Supreme Court oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder, and who aren't otherwise enticed by the Journal of National Security Law & Policy's inaugural symposium, "Swimmin... -
Upcoming Brookings Events
I want to highlight these upcoming events at Brookings of potential interest to our readers in the D.C. area: Is there a Widening Sunni-Shia Schism? February 22, 2013, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST, Saul/Zilkh... -
U.N. Report on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
Yesterday, as I noted in today’s news roundup, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released its annual report on civilian casualties (defined as both direct and indirect deaths and injur... -
Cybersecurity Readings: Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity
Gary Shiffman and Ravi Gupta have written an interesting new article: "Crowdsourcing cyber security: a property rights view of exclusion and theft on the information commons." From the abstract: Individu...
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