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John Villasenor---a Brookings colleague who is also a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA---has done a lot of policy work on domestic drone use. He writes in with the following thoughts on the Sm...
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Petitioners yesterday filed supplementary declarations and exhibits in Al Maqaleh, better known as the after-Boumediene-does-Guantanamo-habeas-jurisdiction-run-to-Bagram case.
During a hearing on the go...
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In response to my post last night about the countermeasure I wish I'd thought of, Ben asked me if it would really be effective. Specifically, he asked:
How could you have fried the kids' computer and An...
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Well, as you might imagine, our defeat at the hands of the Wittes cyberwarriors has had me doing some thinking. In truth, we actually considered the possibility of cyber war but rejected it as beyond ou...
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As DCist reported, the FAA called Adam Eidinger, owner of the missing-but-now-found drone in Washington, D.C. The agency also wrote him an email on the same day Eidinger tweeted that his drone had been l...
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Over at NPR, Leila Fadel reported on All Things Considered that pro-government militiamen warned U.S. government officials in Bengazi that security was deteriorating, and that they should scale back thei...
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Here's an opportunity for law students to intern at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School's Liberty and National Security Program. The Brennan Center emails: We are looking for outstanding...
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Apparently, official DC is in a crisis over cybersecurity and drones, very particular drones, very, very special and particular drones. Who says Lawfare does not move the world of policy? Stewart Baker ...
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I am certain that all Lawfare readers will savor every single word of my lengthy post on Operation Stux2bu. But just in case you don't reach the bottom, I want to flag this absolutely authentic OLC opini...
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Here's the video of all four rounds of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown. It's a crude cut, and I had to edit it very quickly. But anyone who doubts that the era of consumer drones---and consumer cyber-securit...
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If you followed the Drone Smackdown on Twitter, you already know the results. For the rest of you, victory is mine.
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The weather is fine. The adrenaline is pumping. It's a perfect day for drone dog-fighting.
While thanks to the FAA, you cannot attend the Smackdown, we will post video of each of the four rounds as quic...
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The following is a guest post from Chris Jenks. Chris formerly was a Judge Advocate and Chief of the International Law Branch at the U.S. Army’s Office of The Judge Advocate General. Now he is an assis...
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So we learn from Politico's Josh Gerstein, who filed this report yesterday.
Here's how Gerstein's piece begins:
The U.S.
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Ellen Nakashima has an interesting piece in the Post describing Iranian computer network operations directed at U.S.
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Shane Harris, official judge of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown, emailed the five remaining combatants (one has dropped out) the following concerning the order of combat on Sunday: Combatants, After ...
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I had to restrain myself this morning at the D.C. Circuit from interrupting proceedings with an emergency request for an on-the-spot ruling in Wittes v. FAA---a case which has admittedly does not exist--...