As I read the exchange between Bryan, Wells and Jack about law enforcement versus military methods of dealing with terrorism, I was reminded of a speech I gave at the Brookings Institution in 2010, which...

Yesterday at Lawfare, Bryan Cunningham sought to breathe new life into the “military versus law enforcement” debate over terrorism, along the way deeming the horrific assaults in Paris to be “consequence...

This week, Brookings unveiled a new poll by Nonresident Senior Fellow Shibley Telhami that dives below the"approve/disapprove" numbers to offer a more sophisticated picture of how the American public vie...

As reported last month, the NSA in late December declassified more than ten years of NSA quarterly reports to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB). In them, the NSA lists, with varying degr...

Worth flagging: yesterday's New York Times opinion piece, which was published in the wake of Sloan's departure from the State Department last month.

Such is the gist of Judge Richard Roberts' order, issued yesterday in the context of the high-value Guantanamo detainee's habeas case in D.C.

Forget North Korea. Forget the Islamic State. Forget the Iranian nuclear program. I want to tell you about my exchange with Edward Snowden---and the amazing things he seems to have said in it. The excha...

The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — The State Department envoy who negotiates detainee transfers from the military prison at

I've written two essays on the Sony hack, one for the Wall Street Journal, and the other for Vice Motherboard. The former opens: Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Pea...

The Washington Post reports: Avril D. Haines will become deputy to national security adviser Susan E.

Polarization surrounding the SSCI Report (see here for Lawfare’s coverage) has been most pronounced on the efficacy of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). The Report and its supporters have proclai...