Earlier this month, Ben debated Georgetown Law professor Rosa Brooks on the future of the AUMF during a Pepperdine University School of Law symposium at, entitled “The Future of National Security Law.” G...

Our guest for Episode 16 of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast is Alex Joel, and he gets plenty of tough questions: Is it a violation of the new Obama administration policy directive for the intelligence commu...

This is a very impressive hour of radio based on this excellent story by Gregory Johnsen. John Bellinger and I both show up at various points in the discussion. It's neat what you can do on national secu...

I had meant to have a book review of former CIA lawyer John Rizzo's new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, ready to run along with this episode of the podcast.

In this week’s episode, we explore the latest FOIA tussle between the FBI and ACLU over NSA and the dog-bites-man story of Larry Klayman losing another long-shot appeal. This Week in NSA focuses on the B...

Bruce Schneier of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School gave a keynote address at the National Security Agency at the Crossroads conference Bobby put together at UT-Austin las...

This week’s podcast features a conversation with none other than Lawfare’s own Ben Wittes. But it begins as usual with This Week in NSA: A Reuters story claims that researchers showed something bad about...

"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...