Ben and Bobby will be testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee on "Protecting U.S. Citizens' Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror" at 10 am tomorrow at 2141 Rayburn House Office Bui...

When I wrote, last week, about the insecurity of Gmail, I was intending to gently mock the idea that the CIA might have such a bad sense of how Gmail works (and the Terms of Service under which it is pro...

Melissa Hathaway has a new essay that argues for putting cybersecurity and related issues on the G20 agenda: To counteract these [cybersecurity] risks, some governments and businesses are turning to inte...

Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled "Eyes in the Sky: the Domestic Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems."  The four-witness panel included two experts familiar to Lawfare reade...

The New York Times has a story about the problems of expanding CALEA to on peer-to-peer communications.  The story discusses a Center for Democracy and Technology report on the topic by several experts. ...

I've been in Germany all week (at the George C.

Ben quotes from this morning's Washington Post editorial on AUMF reform, the last two sentences of which assert that "Countering the jihadists with intelligence and law enforcement tools manifestly faile...

For those who'd prefer the shorter version of Jen Daskal and my draft paper on life "After the AUMF," we've got a short op-ed out in today's New York Times with a far less alliterative title: "Don't Expa...

Yesterday, I noted the DoD report which, for the first time, reflected a determination by the US government that a number of cyber intrusions were "attributable directly to the Chinese government and mil...

Charlie Savage reported in the NYT today that the Obama administration “is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it e...

Curtis Bradley and I have a casebook on foreign relations law that includes a heavy dose of national security law (including chapters on covert action and targeted killing) that might be of interest to L...