Gabor Rona of Human Rights First took some time out from today's hurricane to send me the following thoughts on my post from Friday engaging Glenn Greenwald on the subject of counting civilian casualties...

I am hereby ending my boycott of Glenn Greenwald. I'm doing it not because his latest post about me refrained from personal attack or adopted the sort of civil tone to which I think the public debate sh...

I agree with Bobby’s analysis of this morning’s Washington Post profile by Karen DeYoung of John Brennan, and would add these thoughts: Eliminating CIA’s Drone Capacities.  Count me as skeptical that we...

[Note: I'd originally indicated that Greg Miller wrote this second piece in the Post series, but in fact it was Karen de Young -- my apologies to Karen!

Splayed across the front page of the Washington Post this morning is the headline "U.S.

There were basically none. No discussion of Guantanamo, of habeas, of the NDAA, of interrogation, of military commissions, of targeted killing---and only the most cursory mention of drone strikes. This i...

I've recently completed a short (10-page) draft meant to serve as a primer on key domestic law questions associated with computer network operations.  The paper will be published as part of the proceedin...

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s speech last week on cyber is more significant than has been reported.  Most of the coverage focused on Panetta’s grave warnings about cyber threats facing the nation, ...

This is a very weird column by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan. Sullivan, acknowledging that the Times has broken important stories about the CIA's drones program and has sought more infor...

Majority Leader Harry Reid issued the following statement today: REID: SENATE WILL HAVE ONE MORE CHANCE TO PASS CYBERSECURITY LEGISLATION Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued the ...