In advance of the President's speech tomorrow, the Attorney General has just sent this letter to Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing the Administration's legal basis for...

With President Obama's big speech tomorrow on counterterrorism policy at National Defense University in mind, Commentary Magazine has been nice enough to post today my June cover essay, "The Case for Dro...

Just in time for the President's speech on Thursday, the Hoover Institution has released Chapter 2 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law....

Ben and Bobby will be testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee on "Protecting U.S. Citizens' Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror" at 10 am tomorrow at 2141 Rayburn House Office Bui...

When I wrote, last week, about the insecurity of Gmail, I was intending to gently mock the idea that the CIA might have such a bad sense of how Gmail works (and the Terms of Service under which it is pro...

Melissa Hathaway has a new essay that argues for putting cybersecurity and related issues on the G20 agenda: To counteract these [cybersecurity] risks, some governments and businesses are turning to inte...

Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled "Eyes in the Sky: the Domestic Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems."  The four-witness panel included two experts familiar to Lawfare reade...

The New York Times has a story about the problems of expanding CALEA to on peer-to-peer communications.  The story discusses a Center for Democracy and Technology report on the topic by several experts. ...

I've been in Germany all week (at the George C.

Ben quotes from this morning's Washington Post editorial on AUMF reform, the last two sentences of which assert that "Countering the jihadists with intelligence and law enforcement tools manifestly faile...

For those who'd prefer the shorter version of Jen Daskal and my draft paper on life "After the AUMF," we've got a short op-ed out in today's New York Times with a far less alliterative title: "Don't Expa...