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The Brennan Center’s Liza Goitein and Faiza Patel have posted a response to my post of last week challenging three of their recommendations in their recent report on the FISA Court. This post is a brief...
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Last summer I wrote of the administration’s constitutional arguments for disregarding congressional transfer restrictions in swapping the Taliban 5 for Bowe Bergdahl:
To say that the President disregarde...
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As the details of a nuclear deal are hammered out, a case that directly implicates the American-Iranian relationship is clamoring for cert. On Monday, the Supreme Court asked for the view of the Solicito...
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of all 30 counts charged in connection with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
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For interested readers: the latest installment of the Lawfare Research Paper Series.
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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.
