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My law partner (and former CIA General Counsel) Jeff Smith and I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post (entitled "Is It Legal to Hit Iran?" in the print edition) discussing the U.S. and international...
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Briefing is now complete on the government’s motion to stay pending appeal in Hedges v. Obama. (You’ll recall that a circuit judge already stayed the district court’s order temporarily, pending resoluti...
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This remarkable Wall Street Journal story came out over Yom Kippur, so I'm late in commenting on it. But it's worth everyone's attention. It opens:
About once a month, the Central Intelligence Agency sen...
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Charlie Savage of the NYT has an interesting piece on a memorandum entitled “Interrogation Techniques” that Savage reports was circulated last year among the Romney campaign’s “National Security Law Subc...
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Scott Shane raises important questions in his article today about transparency and offensive U.S. cyber capabilities and operations. There are lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience with respect...
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Washingtonian writer and respected, strict-constructionist Smackdown judge Shane Harris has this piece on last Sunday's Main Event. Here's how it begins:
Sunday was a great day for flying. Flying drones...
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Carrie Johnson had this piece about the Smackdown on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday. It begins: National Security Experts Go Rogue For 'Drone Smackdown'
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John Villasenor---a Brookings colleague who is also a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA---has done a lot of policy work on domestic drone use. He writes in with the following thoughts on the Sm...
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Petitioners yesterday filed supplementary declarations and exhibits in Al Maqaleh, better known as the after-Boumediene-does-Guantanamo-habeas-jurisdiction-run-to-Bagram case.
During a hearing on the go...
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In response to my post last night about the countermeasure I wish I'd thought of, Ben asked me if it would really be effective. Specifically, he asked:
How could you have fried the kids' computer and An...
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Well, as you might imagine, our defeat at the hands of the Wittes cyberwarriors has had me doing some thinking. In truth, we actually considered the possibility of cyber war but rejected it as beyond ou...
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