As I’ve discussed previously, I am finishing a forthcoming paper on constitutional war powers and “The Power to Threaten War.”  In the meantime, the Yale Law Journal Online has published my essay, drawin...

In August 2012, thanks to YouGov, I launched my first national survey to probe more deeply about what Americans know about intelligence agencies, what they think about controversial intelligence programs...

Charles "Cully" Stimson of the Heritage Foundation writes in with these thoughts on a report Heritage has released on sexual assault in the military: In the spirit of keeping national security law devote...

So, what are we to make of claims that the NSA scandal will lead other countries to set up their own non-USA cloud?  I really can't speak to the political imperative, but this is pretty notable:  Google ...

Word has it that Edward Snowden might be willing to travel to Germany to testify to a public prosecutor or an investigating committee of the German parliament that is looking into mass surveillance.  How...

Edward Snowden's disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). Some of these proposed revisions a...

Voice of America is reporting that the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta (like the U.S.

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...to my revised meta-study of drone strike casualties. Ritika Singh's updated meta-study of drone strike casualties reaches exactly the right conclusion: the more we hear from non-government sources, t...

Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...

I haven't watched this yet. Will publish thoughts on it after I have done so---if I have any. In the meantime, here are Josh Gerstein's from Politico: