Crafted with his characteristic mix of brilliance and dark speculations about the motives of government actors, Stephen Holmes, my colleague, has published an exceptionally rich essay in the Financial Ti...

You've probable already heard the news. But here's the video: From NBS News: The X-47B drone made history Wednesday as the first robot to land itself on the moving flight deck of an aircraft carrier at...

A friend of mine at the Homeland Security Institute recently called my attention to this fascinating article in the Atlantic.  The article reveals nascent plans by CBP and the Border Patrol to equip dome...

Earlier today I linked to Walter Pincus' assessment of the Snowden affair.   I now have Glenn Greenwald's response.  Here's some of what he had to say: Apparently, some establishment journalists have de...

This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least.  The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...

A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho...

The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.  He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen...

The following is a guest post by Susan Landau, author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies.

I am participating today and tomorrow at a seminar at Roger Williams University Law School, entitled Cyber Threats and Cyber Realities.  It is being hosted by our Lawfare guest contributor Peter Marguile...

Last week (which seems almost an age ago) when the NSA telephone call meta-data portion of the NSA disclosures first broke, Ben wondered about how an application could be written that would satisfy Secti...

I know it is hard to turn our attention away from the NSA spying programs, but it might be worthwhile to consider that other significant threats to American security exist, possibly even ones greater the...