While Ben has often mocked the New York Times for its opinions, the Washington Post has mostly escaped our attention.  To a large degree this reflects the level-headedness of its opinions.  So when it sl...

They are available here.  Lots of interesting stuff on a first quick read, but two thing stand out.  First, in response to the question “Could the Administration carry out drone strikes inside the United...

I'm not sure if this is by accident or on purpose, but the New York Times yesterday proposed advanced judicial review of a huge swath of targeting in warfare against terrorist groups. Consider the first...

My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a cybersecurity expert, sent me the following brief note following the State of the Union and the concurrent release of the president's executive order on cybersecu...

Recent events have accelerated a discussion focused around creating a special court to oversee the execution of targeted killings against suspected terrorists.

As Rafaella reported last night, President Obama went “all-in” on cybersecurity last night, marrying a substantive mention of cyber in his State of the Union address (I’m bitter about  that -- I bet agai...

In the President's State of the Union Address, President Obama spent a fair amount of time on foreign policy and Lawfare-related matters. In addition to announcing his cybersecurity executive order, he d...

A few weeks ago, I wrote in a brief essay published by the Hoover Institution, in which I posed the following question: "How long do we really think it will take before a gun enthusiast arms a remotely-p...

I have been beating this one the death, and will not for a while after this, but the gap between the supposed threat of cyberespionage and our response to it continues to amaze.  From Ellen Nakashima, we...

John Bellinger makes note in his post below that that Obama administration faces increasing organized NGO, activist-advocacy, and European pushback on drone warfare, and he cites today's front page NYT s...

There's been a fair amount of buzz over the past few days centered around the idea of a statutory "drone court"--a tribunal modeled after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that would (pr...