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My friend, Jack Goldsmith, wonders whether my earlier post about the pending Congressional proposal to regulate cybersecurity was a reference to General Alexander’s failure to persuade Senator McCain of ...
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As Raffaela noted earlier, Atlantic blogger Conor Friedersdorf has written in praise (sort of) of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer for the latter’s opposition to domestic drones. I would consid...
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Now sooner did I complain about the lack of editorial response to John Brennan's speech on drones than the Washington Post has published this editorial on drone strikes in Yemen. The editorial goes on t...
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[UPDATE 5/10/12: Whoops. Careful readers will note that the new bill omits the congressional-notification language from last year's bill...at least in the text of the statute, though not in the explanat...
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It is surprising to me that neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times nor the Wall Street Journal has yet to run an editorial reacting to John Brennan’s extensive and thoughtful speech on drones...
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I received the list below (of "Significant Cyber Attacks" on Federal systems since 2004) from sources on Capitol Hill last week. After reading through it and checking the data, it seemed worth making th...
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Well, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act passed the House last week. Now that the dust has cleared (and before we move on to the coming Senate battles) it’s probably worthwhile looking at...
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Yesterday I posted a lengthy response to Gabor Rona’s critique of the Brennan speech, and Gabor has now replied to my comments. Alas, we seem to be speaking past one another in various ways (for example...
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Susan Landau is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard's Computer Science Department, formerly a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and the author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed b...
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Back in March (so, well before John Brennan's new remarks on the issue), my friend and colleague Mike Lewis from Ohio Northern and I participated in a "teleforum" debate for the Federalist Society on the...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Gabor Rona of Human Rights First offers an extended critique of John Brennan’s speech on the use of lethal force. It is an interesting and provocative post, leading me to share a f...
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Very glad to have joined the Lawfare team. I look forward to more sustained blogging once the spring grading season is over. For now, I'll offer just a quick thought on the speech John Brennan delivere...
