The Wall Street Journal has an article today, titled “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.”  It reports: The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to exam...

The Times has an op-ed today on the WCIT conference in Dubai.  Who knows, maybe this is one Ben will agree with.

The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio recordings of its recent conference in Washington.

It's a rather useful, CRS-like report, entitled "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones): An Introduction." It opens: This note provides an introduction to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by the UK ...

That is the title of Eric Posner’s essay in Slate reacting to Jeh Johnson’s Oxford speech.   The first part of the piece roughly tracks some of the points I made last week, but then Eric widens the lens:...

This Lawfare post serves as a running list of links to articles, documents, or other materials related to the regulation and legal review of autonomous weapons systems (or increasingly automated weapons ...

As Ritika already noted, George Will has a column in today's Washington Post about drones and targeted killing. In it, he poses a question lots of people ask about drone strikes and that warrants a momen...

A colleague just pointed this out to me today.  Buried in the Senate-approved NDAA is Section 936, which would require the Pentagon to "establish a process" for defense contractors that have classified i...

I've been meaning for some time to comment on recent developments impacting the DOD-CIA convergence trend.  While much of the attention under this heading understandably focuses on drones, it is importan...

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After responding yesterday to Matt and Ken on lethal autonomous robots, Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski now takes aim at my critique of his group's report on robots with autonomous lethal capability.