"The National Security Agency at the Crossroads" was a two-day conference organized by Lawfare's Bobby Chesney, and held earlier this week at the University of Texas' Strauss Center for International Sec...

Our special guest this week is Michael Allen, former Majority Staff Director of the House intelligence committee.  Mike is the founder of Beacon Global Strategies and the author of Blinking Red, the stor...

Yesterday, John Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice, gave a keynote address on cybersecurity at American University’s Washington College of Law as...

This week’s cyberlaw podcast begins as always with the week in NSA. We suspect that a second tech exec meeting with the President (for two hours!) bodes ill for the intelligence community, or at least th...

This week, my Brookings colleagues in our Foreign Policy Program hosted an address by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen for a speech and audience Q&A on Russia, Ukraine and Crimea and, more ge...

This week’s podcast covers the latest on NSA.  We mock EFF overriding one of the privacy protections in NSA’s metadata program by killing the 5-year retention limit.  We puzzle over the New York Times st...

Shane Harris was the first ever guest on the Lawfare Podcast, and today, he becomes the first ever return guest. The Foreign Policy writer has had a busy week covering the CIA-SSCI flap.

In the latest episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Jason Weinstein and I cover a host of topics.

This episode doesn't really need much introduction. It's a discussion and debate between Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU, and Michael Chertoff, former DHS Secretary, at a Federalist Society event a coup...

Last year, I was arguing with a couple of my partners, Michael Vatis and Jason Weinstein over the latest developments in privacy and security law. It was fun, mainly because they’re smarter than I am and...

I'm delighted to announce that I've persuaded the folks who run the excellent, must-listen Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast to host it on Lawfare. I started listening to this podcast---a weekly interview series ...

Last November, the University of Richmond invited Ben and Conor Friedersdorf to participate in a debate on the ethics of drone warfare. Conor is a familiar voice in the anti-drone camp, as those who have...

Here is the audio from Monday's event at the Berkman Center at Harvard, "Defending an Unowned Internet." I have edited it slightly for length. The intervention by Tim Berners-Lee, for those interested in...

Robert Litt, the general counsel to the director of national intelligence, has emerged as one of the administration's point men on response to the Snowden revelations, the defense of the intelligence com...