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It’s Time for the Senate to Act on PCLOB Nominations
The White House’s announcement of the intended nominations of Travis LeBlanc and Aditya Bamzai to be members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is a welcome development for this l... -
What to Make of Trump's NDAA Signing Statement
Late in the evening on Monday, Aug. 13, about six hours after President Donald Trump publicly signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2019 into law, the White House quietly releas... -
What’s in the New NDAA
President Donald Trump signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019 into law on Monday afternoon, at an event at Fort Drum military base in upstate New York. -
Document: Court Upholds Constitutionality of Mueller Appointment in Russian Troll Farm Case
On Monday, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against a motion challenging the constitutionality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. The... -
The Law of Military Cyber Operations and the New NDAA
How will the soon-to-be-enacted NDAA alter the legal framework for military operations in the cyber domain? -
In the House Strzok Hearing, a Reminder of Congress’s Shortcomings on Oversight
The House of Representatives hearing Thursday with FBI agent Peter Strzok was far from the chamber’s finest 10 hours. The shortcomings, however, go beyond the House’s role in partisan political fighting ... -
Brett Kavanaugh and the Starr Report: How Our Office Drafted the Impeachment Referral
Twenty years ago, Brett Kavanaugh and I were on the team that drafted Kenneth Starr’s impeachment referral. Here’s what the Supreme Court nominee did and did not do. -
Publicly Reported Data Breaches: A Measure of Our Ignorance?
There is a mounting gap between what the headlines say about the costs of cyber insecurity to the U.S. economy and the results of data-driven research on this topic—with negative implications for cyberse... -
NATO and War Powers: Remembering the ‘Great Debate’ of the 1950s
As President Trump goes into this week’s NATO summit complaining about burden-sharing, amid inflamed anxieties at home about presidential powers over foreign relations, it is worth remembering the “Great... -
Document: Senate Intelligence Committee Review Endorses January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Election Interference
The Senate intelligence committee released the findings Tuesday of its review of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election. The document is bel... -
The NSA and the USA Freedom Act
The National Security Agency has announced a startling failure in the implementation of the USA Freedom Act of 2015. According to a public statement released by NSA on June 28, the call detail records th... -
New Authorities for Military Cyber Operations and Surveillance, Including TMA?
This is my third post in a series on cyber-related provisions in the Senate version of the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which is heading soon to conference for rec...
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