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The New York Times on Obama and Counterterrorism
The New York Times this morning has a lengthy, rich, and detailed feature story on President Obama's counterterrorism record. Reporters Jo Becker and Scott Shane have done a really terrific job of bringi... -
Toddler Stops National Security Incident...
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What Was Dr. Afridi Convicted Of?
Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a post complaining about Leon Panetta's recent lament that “[i]t is so difficult to understand and it’s so disturbing that [Pakistan] would sentence this doctor... -
Readings: Laura A. Dickinson, Outsourcing War & Peace
George Washington University Law School's Laura A. Dickinson's book from Yale University Press (2012), Outsourcing War & Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs, is quite... -
Thrift Savings Plan Cyber Breach
The Federal government acknowledged, on Friday, that a contractor operating aspects of the Thrift Savings Plan (the government's in-house pension plan) suffered a significant cyber breach. As a result o... -
Government Motion for Reconsideration in Hedges
The government has moved for reconsideration in the Hedges case. -
Second Circuit Allows Government To Withhold OLC Interrogation Memos and CIA Interrogation Records and Abu Zubaydah Photograph
The New York Times published an editorial yesterday criticizing Monday's decision by the Second Circuit in ACLU v. -
More on NYPD and Local Counterterrorism Intelligence
As I’ve argued previously here (at length) and here (briefly), if you are interested in government counterterrorism intelligence activities and privacy, don’t just pay attention at the federal level – th... -
Response to Samuel Moyn on “Power and Constraint”
Samuel Moyn’s review of Mary Dudziak’s book War Time, like the book it reviews, makes interesting points about “endless war.” Along the way Moyn says that my book Power and Constraint claims “that Barac... -
How to Destroy the Internet
I've lately been thinking of the scope and nature of cyber threats -- mostly in writing a still-in-draft response to Jack Goldsmith's recent defense of cybersecurity regulation. In the interest of furth... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Lawyers for the accused in the September 11 case want George Bush and Barack Obama to testify, according to the Associated Press. In addition to the current and former president, Joe Biden, Eric Holder, ... -
"War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences," by Mary L. Dudziak
Published by Oxford University Press (2012) Reviewed by Samuel MoynConsider two views about what went wrong after 9/11 (if you think anything did).