On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee marked up the Lungren cybersecurity proposal.  The details are reported here and are difficult to piece together.  In so far as one can tell, the Chairm...

UCLA Professor John Villasenor and I have this oped coming out in tomorrow's Washington Post responding to calls for the Federal Aviation Administration to take action to protect privacy in the context i...

Over the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of blogs about the substance of the cybersecurity bills pending before Congress.  As the House moves to consider cyber legislation next week and as the ...

How should we understand CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston's speech at Harvard Law School the other day? It is not, like earlier speeches by senior administration lawyers and counterterrorism officials...

The House Homeland Security Committee has now released its own updated version of a cybersecurity bill.  The text is (Lungren Substitute April 2012).   This bill stands in pretty significant contrast to ...

We now have a collection of speeches from the past two years by the Obama administration's top lawyers in the national security agencies and departments on targeted killing and (hypothetically speaking) ...

The Rogers-Ruppersberger bill will come to the floor the week of April 23.  It's information sharing provisions are likely to be the crux of the debate on the House side.  Today, the Manager's filed a dr...

Yesterday’s speech by CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston has generated criticism from Deborah Pearlstein, on Opinio Juris.

In earlier posts I’ve written generally about the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill and the McCain bill.  Today I want to continue drilling down in comparing the ...

Greg Miller of the Washington Post has this excellent profile of Roger, the enigmatic head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center and a principle architect of the drones program.

Columbia legal scholar Philip Bobbitt just sent in this fascinating article on the constitutionality of the individual mandate as justified by biosecurity. If that sounds like a bit of a non-sequitur, we...

Earlier this week I published a piece on the Foreign Policy page that defended the legal infrastructure for the Obama’s administration’s targeted killing program.  At the end I made the following proposa...