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Today's Headlines and Commentary
As Jack has already noted, Ellen Nakashima has an article in the Washington Post and a post on Checkpoint Washington reporting that the White H -
White House Shoots Down NSA Efforts to Protect Private Domestic Networks
Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reports that the White House thwarted NSA attempts to seek legislation that “would have required hundreds of companies that provide such critical services as electr... -
Wednesday's SJC Hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act
I've blogged before about S. -
Readings: Micah Zenko on 10 Things You Didn't Know About Drones ... But Probably Need To
Along with the earlier reading on drones in Pakistan by Pia Zubair Shah in Foreign Policy, also check out Council on Foreign Relations fellow Micah Zenko's short piece in the same March-April 2012 issue,... -
Brookings Paper on China and Cybersecurity
Brookings scholars Kenneth Lieberthal and Peter W. Singer have just released a paper entitled "Cybersecurity and U.S.-China Relations." It opens as follows: There is perhaps no relationship as significan... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A bomb went off in Katmandu, Nepal, killing at least three people. -
The Most Backhanded Praise I've Ever Received
I only just noticed Kevin Jon Heller's "Update" to his post slamming my post about the Rahmatullah case. -
Readings: Pir Zubair Shah, My Drone War
Journalist Pir Zubair Shah writes in the March-April 2012 issue of Foreign Policy. My Drone War: American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of ... -
<I>Boumediene</I>, "Global Constitutionalism," and "Human Rights Universalism": My Response to Professor Kent
For those interested in the ongoing academic debate over the rationale and implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene, I have a new (short) piece in the Iowa Law Review Bulletin respondin... -
Soliciting Podcast Feedback
We have now had four episodes of The Lawfare Podcast. Each has been downloaded a goodly number of times, so I know that people are listening to the podcast, but I have less sense of what people think of ... -
Readings: The Royal Society Report on Neuroscience, Conflict, and Security
The technological frontiers of conflict include cyberwar, robotics, and autonomous lethal weapons. It is time to add a new one: the use of neuroscience in conflict. Whether by creating new weapons to be... -
Lies, Crimes, and United States v. Alvarez
Wednesday’s oral argument on the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act generated a flurry of anticipatory and postmortem
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