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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...

Earlier today, former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh gave a talk at the Oxford Union, entitled "How to End the Forever War?"  His remarks begin as follows: Thank you, Mr. President and Members...

As Paul noted, a new Pentagon Report to Congress states: In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some o...

As most readers are aware, in the midst of the national turmoil following the bombings in Boston, the House of Representatives passed a version of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Ac...

OK ... it isn't that bad.  But it does say something when it is noteworthy that DoD has now officially acknowledged that the Chinese military are a source of cyber intrusions in the United States. The fu...