I’ve already written at some length about the D.C. Circuit’s decision last month in Aamer v.

Secrecy---of the sort that typically shrouds cyber-defense and cyber-attack capabilities and doctrine---complicates the development of international norms.  Secrecy makes it difficult to engage in sustai...

The Privacy an Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been holding a Public Hearing on the 702 program since 8.45am this morning. Witnesses (and links to written testimony) are listed below: Panel I: Gover...

Throughout American history occasional strategic thinkers have transformed the way we think about new domains of warfare and security. Alfred Thayer Mahan conceived of the geostrategic role of sea power ...

The slow-boil debate regarding the fate of the 2001 AUMF continues.  The subject came up on March 11 when Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) Michael Lum...

Ken Dilanian has a story on Acting CIA General Counsel Robert Eatinger (whom Caroline Krass, just confirmed, will succeed.)  Eatinger is at the center of the fracas between CIA and SCCI because he sent a...

The news, reported earlier this afternoon by the Washington Post, adds a new and interesting dimension to the CIA-SSCI spat.

On Monday, we reported on the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California, which prohibited the government from destroying telephone metadata...

In an interview conducted yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan had an interesting exchange with Audrey Kurth Cronin on the subject of al Qaeda’s organizational scope. ...