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The main terminal of the Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine has been captured by rebels, the Los Angeles Times tells us. The airport has seen fierce fighting in the past several months and has taken on s...
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Our guest for Episode 50 of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast is David Sanger, the New York Times reporter who broke the detailed story of Stuxnet in his book, Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and S...
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Just in time for Gabriella Blum and my forthcoming book, The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting A New Age of Threat, comes
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In October 2009, Ali Saleh Al-Marri was sentenced to more than eight years in prison under a plea deal the Al Qaeda sleeper agent had struck with federal prosecutors.
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From this ABC/Associated Press piece:
In another challenge to President Barack Obama's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, a ban on transferring detainees to Yemen has been effectively pushed bac...
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Correspondence finds its way into your inbox, bearing the signature of the newly-installed Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Richard Burr.
His letter (per today's New York...
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On counterterrorism, the President's speech was a study in mismatches---as was apparent last night in at least two respects.
First: The address began with an odd intermix of statements related, on one h...
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Last night, President Barack Obama gave his sixth State of the Union address.Throughout the speech, the Associated Press notes, the president returned to the theme of “turning the page,” both in domestic...
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In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, Western European security forces unleashed a dizzying storm of arrests and prosecutions and announced "exceptional" new...
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Last night, President Obama restated his long-standing desire to close Guantanamo: "As Americans, we have a profound commitment to justice---so it makes no sense to spend three million dollars per prison...
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Last night the President “call[ed] on this Congress to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to authorize the use of force against ISIL.” This comes on the heels of h...
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The following are the passages of tonight's State of the Union address that seem to me most relevant to the Lawfare readership:
Tonight, for the first time since 9/11, our combat mission in Afghanistan i...
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This morning's BBC’s NewsHour show opened with a news judgment reflecting a genuinely odd moral calculus.
At the end of the show’s headlines section, announcer James Menendez says: “coming up later in t...
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Last week, Wells noted the release of an important, 85-page report by the National Research Council. (Yesterday, Herb Lin added his thoughts about it.) Broadly, Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: T...
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An interesting development in the ongoing debate regarding the optimal disposition for captured al Qaeda members: The Justice Department has just announced that two al Qaeda members (both citizens of Yem...
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Today, the Islamic State released another video. This clip, which has not yet been independently verified, shows two Japanese hostages kneeling in orange jumpsuits. Standing between them is a militant dr...
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Last week British Prime Minister David Cameron gave an extraordinary speech in which he urged the the banning of private communications, that is communications to which the government could not listen in...
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Passenger Name Records (or PNR) are the data collected by an airline at the time of a passenger's reservation. The data in a PNR is often very detailed and robust. It may, for example, include a cell p...
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Under the shadow of Mexico’s twin volcanoes in the tiny mountainous village of San Mateo Ozolco, Erasmo Aparicio stands outside his house, arms crossed, black hood pulled down over his hair.
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Newspapers around the world lead off with new articles on NSA and GCHQ spying techniques today. David Sanger and Martin Fackler report that the NSA breached North Korean networks before the Sony attack.
