As we all recover from Thanksgiving, I wanted to share with Lawfare readers this video.  It's the trailer from a forthcoming movie entitled Veteran Nation that is being produced by Coldwater Media and a ...

I'm not sure how I missed this last month, but Lisa Monaco---assistant attorney general for national security---gave a speech on cybersecurity and NSD's bureaucratic and substantive response to the probl...

This has nothing whatsoever to do with national security or law. But the Washington Post this morning reprinted one of my favorite editorials written in the time I worked there---a work of sheer editoria...

NPR and WAMU's Diane Rehm Show yesterday had a remarkably sophisticated and serious hour on the Gaza conflict. Well worth a listen for anyone who's interested in the ongoing unpleasantness there. Guests ...

Senator Rand Paul’s rumored detention amendment got me reminiscing about S.2003, better known as the Due Process Guarantee Act (“DPGA”). Remember this?

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, my friend Orin Kerr has a fascinating post on the case of US v. Stanley.   It isn't strictly cybersecurity but the case itself is still worth reading.

In his response to Andrea Prasow, Ben suggests that, in continuing to object to military commissions that have been blessed by two Congresses and both the Bush and Obama Administrations, "Human Rights Wa...

As close readers of Lawfare will be aware (but many others will not) the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will be meeting next month in Dubai.  The ITU, a relative backwater of the UN, has lon...

Speaking of responses to my comments on the New York Times debate, Andrea Prasow of Human Rights Watch---who participated in the discussion---sends in the following: Ben seems to find it boring that Huma...