The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Cody Poplin and I shared the Senate Armed Services and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s hearings on worldwide threats. And I also summarized the U.S. Intelligence Community’s worldwide threat assessment released this week, so you didn’t have to read about the world’s impending doom.

Paul Rosenzweig asked: “what does Norway think?” He compared Norway’s threat assessment to United States’ report.

Laura Dean released Dispatch 5 and Dispatch 6 of her series, Syria Displaced, observing the Aksaray and Fatih neighborhoods in Istanbul and taking a look at the “smugglers’ table.”

Jack Goldsmith shared his thoughts on the impending humanitarian catastrophe in Aleppo.

Benjamin Wittes shared two recent Brookings events on Syria on Omphalos.

Susan Hennessey responded to Just Security’s Ross Schulman’s argument that the NSA’s new reorganization will nix the Information Assurance Directorate. Susan says Schulman is wrong and that the NSA’s reorganization presents an “opportunity to challenge pervasive myths about the work of ‘offensive and defensive’ intelligence.” Nicholas Weaver responded, arguing that the problem with the NSA’s reorganization is one of trust and perception.

Paul Rosenzweig outlined President Obama’s new national cybersecurity plan.

Robert Chesney provided us the link to the livestream of day two of the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin conference on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity.

Doron Hindin asked whether export controls could tame cyber technology and looked at an Israeli approach.

Paul Rosenzweig also asked how concerned we should be about the Internet of Things’ vulnerability.

Herb Lin reflected on an Army combat exercise in Hawaii and how it could play down the cyber threat.

Andrew Keane Woods commented on the new U.S.-U.K. data deal. He argued that the deal could have easily been entitled “U.S. and U.K. Take Important Step for Internet Privacy.”

Stewart Baker released the 100th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, interviewing David Kris.