President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries.  Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un...

Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ). The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C

Kimberly Dozier AP reports this morning that "[a]n American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, . . .

The Russian Business Network is active in Sochi.  Lookingglass sees significant criminal assets in Sochi and warns against using 4G networks.  Not the same as the NBC story -- but still a cautionary note...

Released today: this quite significant order, containing the district court's findings of fact and conclusions of law in Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security---or the "No-Fly List Case" [h/t Wired]...

David Ignatius agrees with me, though he probably doesn't know it :-).  As I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Ignatius thinks that the paradoxical and unfortunate result of the Snowden disclosures may ...

I see so many interesting articles every day, that I thought I'd start a new "featurette" that I'm calling Bits and Bytes.  This will be a short compilation of links to things I've seen that might intere...

Strategika, a Hoover Institution online journal edited by Victor Davis Hanson, has published a symposium on whether armed drones are strategically something new, or just an incremental step forward in re...

Here are two quite recent papers, both of obvious interest to Lawfare readers.  The first, entitled "Drones: the Power to Kill," was penned by former Attorney Alberto Gonzales.  Among other things, Gonza...

Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni...

While NSA critics including David Cole have asserted that the Section 702 program is inconsistent with international privacy norms, the reality is far more complex.  As I explain in a forthcoming Fordham...

Remember Mali?  We don't hear much about it these days, but it still suffers from the presence of armed groups of Islamist extremists in the north, and the French military is still there and using force ...