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I co-authored an article with David Shedd and Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation the other day. It is entitled Maintaining America’s Ability to Collect Foreign Intelligence: The Section 702 Progra...
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Last October, before the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, I argued that the security risks from Syrian refugees are, in general, low, but the potential ones are considerable if th...
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Susan Landau’s post suggesting agreement rather than disagreement between the Don’t Panic report and the ODNI response to it brings to mind the dialog in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall.
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This week on the show, Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff of the NYU Center on Law and Security discuss their new edited volume, Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twentry-First Cen...
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Benjamin Wittes, Cody Poplin, Quinta Jurecic, and Clara Spera released their major new reports on "sextortion."
Cody Poplin featured Wittes’s online webcast discussing the new sextortion research.
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Hezbollah’s top military command was killed in a “major explosion” at Damascus airport.
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Last week, U.S. Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith sued the U.S. Government in federal court, seeking a declaration that Obama’s war against ISIS is illegal. Jack Goldsmith and Marty Lederman have put for...
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Editor's Note: Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff recently released Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century.
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One interesting feature of the sextortion research we released this week—a feature we did not discuss in the papers themselves—is the interaction between this issue and the “going dark” debate. We left t...
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Scholars and Officials Debate: Was This Week's FONOP a FLOP?
Construction on Fiery Cross Reef (Photo: Duetsche Welle)
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Editor's Note: Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff recently released Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century.
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The slow march to Mosul moves onward, but key questions are surfacing about who will take the city, how the assault will be handled, and perhaps most surprisingly, what will happen to any potential ISIS ...
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This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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When we think of cybersecurity, we don't think of sexual violence. Sexual assault, rape, and child molestation are problems of intimate contact between individuals in close proximity to one another. By c...
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As Paul has noted, the ODNI has
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Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff recently released Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century.
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On this weeks's episode, we discuss Brookings's new study on “sextortion.” Also, is a profile of presidential adviser Ben Rhodes a puff piece or a clever hit job? And president Obama faces a lawsuit ove...
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I am a perhaps-improbable admirer of Michael Ratner, whom I was sad to learn passed away yesterday. I interviewed Ratner six years ago for my book Power and Constraint and thought him such a significant...
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ISIS claimed responsibility for a three separate car bombs that tore through Baghdad earlier today leaving at least 93 dead.