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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board yesterday had a public meeting yesterday to, as its web site describes it, "discuss and vote on a proposed plan for its review of counterterrorism activiti...
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This happened. You can do that thing you want to do by clicking on this link.
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An Afghan soldier opened fire at a government compound in Jalalabad earlier today, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding at least two others, the Associated Press reports. It’s the second fatality suffer...
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Our friend Carrie Cordero has levied criticisms against three of the recommendations presented in our report, What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. We appreciate, as always, her constructive engagement wi...
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By now readers of this blog know, the United States is in the midst of a transition that will, when completed, give up its contractual control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). That aut...
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Yesterday, I wrote about the consequences of congressional inaction over the next two months with respect to Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Today, I want to focus on another area where Congress is poise...
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Tick. Tick. Tick.
That's the sound of time slipping away before the June 1 sunset of the Patriot Act 215 provision. We're now within two months of the sunset. Congress does not seem to be bestirring its...
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You have cried out for live programming from Lawfare. And we have heard your pleas.
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Our guest for episode 61 of the Cyberlaw podcast is Joseph Nye, former dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard and three-time national security official for State, Defense, and the National Intelligence Co...
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President Obama has begun stumping for the recently negotiated Iran nuclear deal. On Saturday, he gave an interview with the New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman. Meanwhile, yesterday, he spoke with NPR’s ...
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Over at The New Rambler Review – a new online book review site that I highly recommend – I have a piece on Bruce Schneier’s new book, Data and Goliath. An excerpt that provides a sense of the book:
Data...
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From the FISC’s website:
“The Chief Justice has designated Judge James P. Jones of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and Judge Thomas B. Russell of the United States ...
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Since last week’s announcement of a “framework agreement” on the Iranian nuclear program, I’ve been bothered by a handful of troublesome ambiguities.
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Twitter and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey. The move comes after the sites failed to comply with an order issued last week by the Istanbul First Criminal Courts of Peace to take down footage of an I...
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Some of it is very funny. And there's a very interesting discussion starting at 19:30 about how well he understood---and to what extent he read---the documents he disclosed.
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A story that broke on Thursday became all the more horrific as details poured in over the weekend: Somali militants associated with the Shabab slaughtered 147 students at Garissa Univeristy College in Ea...
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Editor’s Note: Since 9/11, the United States has sought to prevent terrorists from enjoying safe havens from which they can build their organizations and plot attacks. Yet the term “safe haven” means dif...
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With a tenuous ceasefire holding in Ukraine, we asked Fiona Hill onto the show to discuss the man behind the unrest: Vladimir Putin. Hill is the co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, and a Se...
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Happy Anniversary! On Tuesday, John Bellinger marked ten years since passage of UN Security Counsel Resolution 1593, the resolution that referred the situation in Darfur, Sudan to the Prosecutor of the I...
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For those who want the key primary source materials on yesterday's Iran nuclear deal, here they are.
The US Government issued a fact sheet on the parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JC...
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