Earlier, I noted the Lavabit appeal filing in the Fourth Circuit.  Today the government filed its reply brief.  A summary of the argument: Lavabit appeals a contempt order from the district court. But in...

The legislation, which the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday approved by a 13-2 vote, can be found here.  The Committee's press release sums up the bill and can be found here. There's al...

Over the past month, Jane Chong has written a series of posts published over at Security States that go under the title “Bad Code.”  Her thesis (amply documented) is that those who write software code ge...

Today's Wall Street Journal carries an op-ed piece by Matt and me on the regulation of autonomous weapon systems, "Killer Robots and the Laws of War: Autonomous Weapons Are Coming and Can Save Lives.

Edward Snowden's disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). Some of these proposed revisions a...

Voice of America is reporting that the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta (like the U.S.

In an excellent Lawfare post last month, Does the U.N.’s Syria Resolution Violate the Chemical Weapons Convention?  Faiza Patel asserts that if Syria sent chemical weapons to another country, Syria would...

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...to my revised meta-study of drone strike casualties. Ritika Singh's updated meta-study of drone strike casualties reaches exactly the right conclusion: the more we hear from non-government sources, t...

Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...