Over at SCOTUSblog, Lyle Deniston yesterday noted that, according to the Supreme Court's electronic docket, the Court's Thursday conference will address seven petitions for review in detainee-related cas...

A couple of months ago, Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Adviser to the UK security industry and a doctoral student, sent in this account of the controversy in Britain over a government proposal to allow...

That's the word from a member of the defense team, James Connell.  His statement provides as follows: This afternoon, the Guantanamo Bay military commission entered an order (AE035C) continuing the heari...

A number of sources are reporting the discovery of a complex malware toolkit, mostly described as "Flame," which appears to have been distributed in a targeted fashion to infect computers in Iran in part...

The Supreme Court issued orders this morning - but, as before, took no action on several Guantanamo-related petitions for certiorari.

The Federal government acknowledged, on Friday, that a contractor operating aspects of the Thrift Savings Plan (the government's in-house pension plan) suffered a significant cyber breach.  As a result o...

The government has moved for reconsideration in the Hedges case.

As I’ve argued previously here (at length) and here (briefly), if you are interested in government counterterrorism intelligence activities and privacy, don’t just pay attention at the federal level – th...

Samuel Moyn’s review of Mary Dudziak’s book War Time, like the book it reviews, makes interesting points about “endless war.”  Along the way Moyn says that my book Power and Constraint claims “that Barac...

I've lately been thinking of the scope and nature of cyber threats -- mostly in writing a still-in-draft response to Jack Goldsmith's recent defense of cybersecurity regulation.  In the interest of furth...

The latest statement from the defense in United States v. Mohammed et al:

I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell...