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British Court Rejects Drone Lawsuit: Will Decision Affect Supreme Court Decision in Kiobel?
On Friday, a British court rejected a closely watched civil suit by the son of man killed in a 2011 drone strike in Pakistan that requests a judicial declaration that British intelligence officials may b... -
Headless Robotic Mule!
Here's the story from Spencer Ackerman of Wired Danger Room. -
Glenn Greenwald on Disparate Reactions to Newtown and to Children Killed in Drone Strikes
Glenn Greenwald has this lengthy and passionate piece on why Americans respond so differently to the killings in Newtown from the way they respond to the deaths of children killed in drone strikes. -
Carrie Cordero on Physical Security at Schools
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following provocative thoughts on the Newtown shootings and layered physica... -
New Paper on Domestic Drone Issues
From the shameless self-promotion department, this: last week Brookings published my recent paper on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems---drones---into our national airspace. The piece identif... -
White House Obliged to Respond to Death Star Petition
This would certainly have national security implications. The White House promises to respond to online petitions that receive 25,000 signatures. This one has more than 29,000: Secure resources and fun... -
Motion to Dismiss Filed in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta et al.
Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v. -
WCIT Treaty Breakdown -- A Summary and Some Analysis
As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good), that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray. The United States and a number of other Western countr... -
Wall Street Journal on NCTC Database Access
The Wall Street Journal has an article today, titled “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.” It reports: The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to exam... -
The New York Times on WCIT
The Times has an op-ed today on the WCIT conference in Dubai. Who knows, maybe this is one Ben will agree with. -
Audio of Recent ABA Standing Committee Conference
The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio recordings of its recent conference in Washington. -
House of Commons Library Report on UK Use of Drones
It's a rather useful, CRS-like report, entitled "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones): An Introduction." It opens: This note provides an introduction to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by the UK ...
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