Late on a Friday afternoon, I take a break from other work in order to bring you the following food-for-thought: We often think about the policy and legal issues that will arise when the jump is made fr...

U.S. Policy Toward Yemen

Yesterday the NYPD unveiled its Domain Awareness System, which aggregates and analyzes existing public safety data streams (including license plate readers and video surveillance camera systems) in real ...

Pepperdine law professor Greg McNeal, whose work Lawfare follows closely, is attending the 2012 North America exhibition of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (#AUVSI) in Las Vegas...

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Stewart Baker wonders how much President Obama could get done with an executive order on cybersecurity---now that the legislation has failed.

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Stewart Baker has this interesting piece on whom to blame for the collapse of the cybersecurity bill, which failed on a cloture vote in the Senate the other day. Baker sugg...

I am normally pretty good about keeping up with my Lawfare-related email, but sometimes, an important emails slips through the cracks. Andrew Kent of Fordham Law School sent me this comment on my post on...

Over at the New Yorker blog, Steve Coll has this post on the al-Aulaqi operation, and on related reporting in Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture.  Coll focuses on capture's infeasibility, one of the condit...

And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.  Despite letters from the Director of NSA, General Alexander and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey the motion to close the deb...

No, not Latif the Guantanamo habeas case. This Latif is a recent 9th Circuit decision which I had missed until Shirin Sinnar of Stanford Law School sent me the following the other day: In a little notice...

That's the word from the Senate -- Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture to conclude the debate on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 -- debate that began in earnest earlier today.  In addition, he...

Senator Leahy has an proposed Cybercrime Amendment to S3414 that would, effectively, substantially enhance penalties for cyber crime and impose mandatory minimum sentences.  There are plenty of reasons t...