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At a CATO surveillance event last month, Ben Wittes talked about inherent presidential powers of surveillance with this hypothetical: "What should Congress have to say about the rules when Barack Obama w...
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As part of our ongoing series on Bitcoin, I thought I would note today's report that the value of Bitcoin has fallen below $200/XBT. Since buying the coin on December 31 it has lost more than 33% of its...
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The five detainees are Yemeni; four went to Oman, and one to Estonia, apparently.
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Last week, I introduced a new podcast that Shane Harris, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and I are doing entitled, Rational Security.
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A very, very big arrest in Cincinnati today, involving allegations that a man named Christopher Cornell (online alias Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah) had planned to travel to DC in order to carry out an attack (v...
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That's the gist of Jason Leopold's extraordinary article this afternoon for Vice, which in turn cites this report by a CIA Accountability Review Board.
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The New York Times reports that, in a new video and printed statement, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has formally claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attacks, calling them revenge for...
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I spent the last two days at a terrific conference in at Columbia Law School on asymmetric warfare and the laws of armed conflict, organized by Matthew Waxman and the great Stanford international relatio...
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The Washington Post has a fascinating article today about the legal issues arising from the surrender of one of the the notorious brutal leaders of the Lords Resistance Army, Dominic Ongwen. Apparently ...
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By now, most readers of this blog are well aware that, for a brief period of time yesterday, ISIS cyber warriors (going under the hashtag #CyberCaliphate) took control of the CENTCOM Twitter and You-Tube...
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The White House has released an overview of the proposal previewed in today's Washington Post which you can read here or below:
Since the start of his Administration, when he issued the Cyberspace Policy...
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As promised, here it is.
The rather unfortunate-seeming proposal provides, in full:
114TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S.__
To extend and enhance prohibitions and limitations with respect to the transfer or re...
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While French police continue to search for accomplices in the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Guardian describes the details emerging about the gunmen and their associates. The plot has thickened, especially...
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The proposal, put forth today by Senator Kelly Ayotte and others, comes as no real surprise.
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My Brookings colleagues Daniel Byman, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Editor, and Jeremy Shapiro have a new paper out on a very timely subject: returning foreign fighters from Syria and Iraq. Entitled, "Be Afra...
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I was pleased to see my former DoJ Criminal Division colleague David Kris’s re-post of his thoughtful 2010 Brookings remarks, in which he argued that both criminal law enforcement and military force are ...
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Some commentators who have condemned the Charlie Hebdo killings have, in the same breath, criticized the publication for being unnecessarily provocative.
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As I read the exchange between Bryan, Wells and Jack about law enforcement versus military methods of dealing with terrorism, I was reminded of a speech I gave at the Brookings Institution in 2010, which...
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More developments on the situation in France:
1.5 million people gathered in Paris on Sunday, and were joined by another 3 million people around the globe, in response to the Charlie Hebdo killings.
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So now that France is "at war" with radical Islam, now that 1.6 million people and forty heads of state and prime ministers have turned out in the streets of Paris, now that the costs to a society of tol...
