What follows is the last in a short, three-post assessment of selected aspects of the surveillance review group report. In this post, I highlight what is, in my view, the most productive of the review gr...

In Parts I and II of this series, I focused on the Review Group recommendations from Chapter III of the group's report. Starting in this post, I turn to the recommendations of Chapter IV, which deal with...

The following guest post is from Professor Jeffrey Kahn of SMU Law.  Jeff is the author of Mrs. Shipley's Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists, a terrific book recently published by Univer...

Evgeny Morosov has an interesting piece in the FT that asks about the broader and mostly ignored implications of Snowden’s revelations about the scope of NSA surveillance.  He argues that controlling the...

They say that the lack of information sharing is one of the major exacerbating factors behind cyber-insecurity. So I've decided that Lawfare is going to be entirely transparent about the attacks against ...

That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard.  The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation...

There is much to admire in Erik Gartzke’s recent Lawfare essay, Fear and War in Cyberspace.  Indeed, I find myself in substantial agreement with it as a proposition reflecting the reality of today.  But ...

Lawfare readers will recall that I earlier blogged about the Federal Trade Commission's case against Wyndham Hotels.  Under the mantle of its consumer protection mandate, the FTC has sought to impose civ...

Over at the Washington Post, columnist Eugene Robinson has a piece decrying the morality of drone strikes---a piece that expresses with an admirable economy of words nearly every conceptual error one can...

For those who haven’t been following along, this recent story about 3D printing of plastic guns should be a revelation.   3D printing is one of those technologies where the reality is fast outrunning our...

Congress is in recess now (that's why it's so quiet here in Washington) and when they return the first order of business for the Senate is to take up the 2014 NDAA.   The bill, authorizing activities of ...

Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today.  By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...