Over at Security States and The New Republic, I have another blog, entitled: "What Big Data Does, And Doesn't Know About Me."  It tells the story of how I went digging into the data holdings that one big...

I write often about the power of cyberspace and the threats that arise from it -- most recently in discussing how the Syrian Electronic Army is an important contingency to plan for during military operat...

Tuesday’s oral argument in the New York Times and American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act cases before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals spent as much time clarifying the basic issu...

As Ben noted yesterday, today Lawfare begins a cooperative project with the New Republic.  Today, I have a piece in the new Security States blog about cyber contingency planning for possible military act...

A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals will convene tomorrow afternoon to hear arguments in a case challenging the government’s ability to withhold records pertaining to its targeted ...

We know about how difficult it has been to fill the top job at DHS.  It seems that the same is true of some of the career posts---especially the ones that deal with cybersecurity.  According to a recent ...

The NYT has the text of the draft UN Security Council Resolution on Syria.  The most important paragraph is the penultimate one, which states that the Security Council “[d]ecides, in the event of non-com...

The other day, I was driving down Massachusetts Avenue talking on my car's speaker phone system to Rajesh De, general counsel of the National Security Agency. Raj had called me on my Google Voice phone n...

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The latest episode of Intelligence² Debates is over the resolution, "The U.S. Drones Program is Fatally Flawed." It's an interesting program, though I have to say that I think the Oxford Union debate thi...

Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a story about Nathan Myhrvold's Lawfare Research Paper Series paper: "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action." Along the way, it also contains some nice words abou...

Julian Ku is right to poke fun at the administration for conveying its vague and conclusory legal rationale for intervening in Syria through the reporting of the NYT’s Charlie Savage.  But vague and conc...