FAA, eat your heart out.  From The Hill, we learn that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has proposed legislation to curb the use of drones for domestic surveillance.  The heart of his "Preserving Freedom from Un...

A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous point out the following irony. In my recent post on Dan Klaidman's book, I quoted the following passage: The discussion continued for close to two hours, w...

President Obama, today, on the possibility of leaks from the White House: The notion that the White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive, it's wrong, and pe...

Writing in the Boston Review, Georgetown professor David Luban has this essay on President Obama's drone war and just war theory, in which aides report the president is steeped: This image of a president...

She gets the following message from Gmail, and you do not: Your account could be at risk of state-sponsored attacks

That's the update from the New York Times . . .

According to the New York Times, Al-Qaeda's deputy commander, Abu Yahya al-Libi, was the target of a recent drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt.  It is unclear whether he survived the attack.

By now almost everyone has read David Sanger’s fascinating New York Times story relating the behind-the-scenes story of the development and deployment of the Stuxnet virus as part of a larger classified ...

Jack has already noted today's New York Times story attributing the Stuxnet virus to American and Israeli activity through the disclosure of a code word classified program known as Olympic Game.  I'll ha...

Excellent discussion of drone strikes on today's Diane Rehm Show--which, unfortunately, is not embeddable.

The Washington Post had a fascinating story today about "Plan X" -- the program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to jump start research into new modes and methods of cyberw...