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Drone Stories, the Secrecy System, and Public Accountability
Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes. -
Dan Klaidman on "How Obama Learned to Kill"
Yesterday, I linked to this article in the New York Times on the development of Obama's counterterrorism policies. I did not know when I posted it that my old colleague, Dan Klaidman, had a book excerpt ... -
More Thoughts on the NYT's "Kill List" Process Article
Over at Volokh Conspiracy, I make some comments on the NYT article to which Ben linked this morning. My comments run to the kind of signals that the administration might be seeking to send about the tho... -
Flame On: Malware, Collection, Covert Action, and TMA
A number of sources are reporting the discovery of a complex malware toolkit, mostly described as "Flame," which appears to have been distributed in a targeted fashion to infect computers in Iran in part... -
The New York Times on Obama and Counterterrorism
The New York Times this morning has a lengthy, rich, and detailed feature story on President Obama's counterterrorism record. Reporters Jo Becker and Scott Shane have done a really terrific job of bringi... -
Thrift Savings Plan Cyber Breach
The Federal government acknowledged, on Friday, that a contractor operating aspects of the Thrift Savings Plan (the government's in-house pension plan) suffered a significant cyber breach. As a result o... -
How to Destroy the Internet
I've lately been thinking of the scope and nature of cyber threats -- mostly in writing a still-in-draft response to Jack Goldsmith's recent defense of cybersecurity regulation. In the interest of furth... -
Appellee Brief Filed in ACLU v. CIA
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The Unpersuasiveness of the Case for Cybersecurity Regulation – An Introduction
My friend, Jack Goldsmith, wonders whether my earlier post about the pending Congressional proposal to regulate cybersecurity was a reference to General Alexander’s failure to persuade Senator McCain of ... -
Charles Krauthammer and Conor Friedersdorf Reveal How Little they Know About Domestic Drones
As Raffaela noted earlier, Atlantic blogger Conor Friedersdorf has written in praise (sort of) of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer for the latter’s opposition to domestic drones. I would consid... -
Ask, and You Shall Receive: Washington Post Weighs in on Brennan Speech
Now sooner did I complain about the lack of editorial response to John Brennan's speech on drones than the Washington Post has published this editorial on drone strikes in Yemen. The editorial goes on t... -
More on the Next NDAA: Military Activities in Cyberspace
[UPDATE 5/10/12: Whoops. Careful readers will note that the new bill omits the congressional-notification language from last year's bill...at least in the text of the statute, though not in the explanat...
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