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As Bobby noted last night, the NDAA conference report has been filed, and yes, the Feinstein amendment was dropped. Here's Politico's Josh Gerstein and Jeremy Herb and Carlo Munoz of The Hill.
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Glenn Greenwald has this lengthy and passionate piece on why Americans respond so differently to the killings in Newtown from the way they respond to the deaths of children killed in drone strikes.
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I have an op-ed in today's New York Times entitled "Obama's Weakness on Treaties" arguing that the Obama Administration needs to work harder to get Senate approval of treaties in its second term. Here ...
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A bunch of amicus briefs filed in Hedges---and a lot of red meat for NDAA-haters from that special libertarian land where Left and Right meet.
Here's the Rutherford Institute, which argues that "The Nat...
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Politico reports that Senate and House negotiators have reached an agreement on the NDAA, with votes in both houses expected later this week...and then, on to the White House. The full text is available...
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Those interested in the international dimensions of cybersecurity strategy and law should read Adam Segal's (Council on Foreign Relations) essay on "Five Trends to Watch for in Chinese Cybersecurity in 2...
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The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings held a fantastic event today entitled "Global Counterterrorism: A Progress Report" featuring Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterror...
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Senator Daniel Inouye died yesterday. The former Chairman of the Senator Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee was 88.
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Over at the OUPblog, Sandesh Sivakumaran has a post entitled “Killing Journalists in Wartime: A Legal Analysis.” Sivakumaran, who teaches at the University of Nottingham, is the author of The Law of Non-...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following provocative thoughts on the Newtown shootings and layered physica...
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No, no no---I didn't quit my job. I was knee-deep in other stuff. So a big round of applause goes to Ritika for taking over the roundup while I've been otherwise engaged.
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From the shameless self-promotion department, this: last week Brookings published my recent paper on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems---drones---into our national airspace.
The piece identif...
