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Ben Emmerson Statement on Visit to Washington
Ben Emmerson, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, issued the following statement on Friday following a visit t... -
The Guardian Reveals Its Source: NSA Contractor Edward Snowden, Currently in...China
You can't make this stuff up. The Guardian has revealed its source to be NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who (not surprisingly) appears to be a fierce advocate of online freedom and privacy and who (perh... -
Cultivating the Future Cyberspace Operations Workforce
This memorandum from the Secretary of Defense, came across my screen the other day. It will give the reader some insight into how DoD is trying to build its cyber capabilities. MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIE... -
Fighting over Legal Process in the SoftBank-Sprint Deal
Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel. -
HASC Chairman's Mark of the 2014 NDAA
Apropos of Jack's post: here's the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill for 2014. Among many, many other things, the draft legislation requires the Secretary of Defense to notify c... -
UN Special Rapporteur Calls for Moratorium on Lethal Autonomous Robots
Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and other bad stuff has issued a statement reiterating his call for a "moratorium" on the use of lethal autonomous robots. -
Bleg: Liberty Reserve and "Cloud Based Servers"
As many of you might have read, the Department of Justice announced a large scale money-laundering indictment against Liberty Reserve yesterday. I will have some analysis of this development (and the re... -
Taking the CIA Out of Drone Strikes? The Obama Administration's Yemen Experience
Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller has an excellent story in Sunday's paper on the operational role of the CIA in drone warfare. Back at the time of the Brennan confirmation hearings... -
Eight Thoughts on the Broad Reading of Article II Inherent in Bobby’s Conjecture
Bobby’s post from Friday argued that “the current shadow war approach to counterterrorism doesn’t really require an armed-conflict predicate–or an AUMF, for that matter.” Bobby’s point is that most if n... -
The Intersection of Vague Disclosure and Reduced Drone Strikes
The major challenge to legitimating the shadow war against terrorists is that the Executive branch is hand-tied by its own secrecy rules, and cannot disclose what it is doing to permit Congress and the A... -
Disclaimer about CFR Essay [UPDATED]
As I noted yesterday, I have an essay at CFR on the President's speech. I don’t write the headlines or the summaries of my pieces, and I was surprised and dismayed when someone at CFR summarized my piec... -
Ryan Goodman and Sarah Knuckey: Questions About New Targeting Rules
Ryan Goodman and Sarah Knuckey maintain that the new targeting framework announced by the President “raises some troubling questions and leaves important older questions completely unanswered.” Their li...
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