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You might remember Mohamedou Ould Salahi—Guantanamo detainee, author and memoirist, subject of a brutal interrogation, important source on Al Qaeda, and all around fascinating human puzzle.
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With Wyndham’s surrender to the FTC after a brutal court of appeals opinion, the last outpost of resistance to the FTC’s cybersecurity agenda is Mike Daugherty, CEO of LabMD. He joins us on the show thi...
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Today’s New York Times reports that Apple is pushing back on British demands for back doors to encrypted information in part by arguing that “Law enforcement today has access to more data — data which th...
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Bernard Rougier comes on the show to discuss Lebanese Sunni jihadism. Some of the topics covered include:
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A quick response without getting into the weeds about why I find Senator Feinstein's post so disheartening. Let me be clear: I agree with her normative position that the CIA's "enhanced interrogation tec...
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“Governing had turned out to be more complicated than criticizing from the private sector or campaigning.”
–a senior Obama administration official.
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I was extremely disappointed to read Professor Amy Zegart’s post regarding the Senate Intelligence Committee’s study of the CIA Detention and Interrogation Program. Not only did it include factually ina...
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In the rhetoric of American leaders, the Islamic State is a terrorist group. The terrorism label, while accurate, is also misleading, obscuring more than it enlightens. One of the top scholars of terrori...
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This week, we asked Lorenzo Vidino and his co-author, Seamus Hughes, both from the George Washington University Program on Extremism, into the studio to discuss their new report, “ISIS in America: From R...
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Aaron Zelin brought us the latest edition of the Jihadology Podcast, which features Aymenn al-Tamini in a discussion of the Islamic State’s finances and economic situation. Specifically, the two shed lig...
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Interesting corrective responses to my post earlier this week on different types of proportionality and Israel's 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.
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Editor’s Note: Lawfare’s Headlines and Commentary will be at the beach next week. We’ll be back in your inbox on Monday, December 28th. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
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Readers of this blog know that a consequential decision about internet governance looms on the horizon -- the decision of the US goverment to relinquish its contractual control over the Interent Assigned...
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No Plan B
Over the weekend, 195 nations agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions to whatever extent is necessary to limit global warming to less than two degrees Celsius. This is good news because, as ...
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Let’s begin today in Russia, where President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual televised news conference, discussing subjects ranging from Syria, Ukraine, Turkey, and Donald Trump.
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This week on Rational Security, special guest Will McCants joins Shane and Tamara to figure out what ISIS must have thought about the Republican presidential candidates’ plans to carpet bomb them. We ask...
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I have not read the vast majority of the 2000-page Omnibus bill that contains the fiscal year 2016 Defense Appropriations bill. But presumably Representative Hal Rogers, the Chairman of the House Approp...
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The on-going debate on encryption and exceptional access for law enforcement agencies to encrypted communication—which recent attacks in Paris and California have only intensified—is also being closely s...
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On Tuesday Night, CNN hosted the fifth Republican primary debate of the 2016 campaign in cooperation with Facebook. The debate featured candidates Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), forme...
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a massive omnibus tax and spending package late last night, Politico reports. The full text, totalling over 2000 pages, includes $1.149 trillion in spending...