You wouldn't think that labor relations were related to chemical security, but they are (or at least they may be).  The security of our chemical facilities is governed by the CFATS -- the Chemical Facili...

The privacy- and oversight-relevant news comes to us via this Associated Press story.

I confess that I don't have a lot of patience for all of the very serious discussion people seem to be having about the case of Elonis v. U.S., which was argued today in the Supreme Court. The question b...

My favorite ever Washington Post editorial was this one, entitled "A Deep-Fried Thanksgiving Tradition," which was a sort of comic meditation on the dangers and attractions of the deep-fried turkey.

Last week, a British court allowed civil tort claims against the British government to proceed. In Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence, the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) held that a former Pakistani...

Earlier this week I analyzed Senator Paul’s proposed war declaration.  Bruce Fein has a spirited defense of Senator Paul’s draft (which includes a swipe at me for asking an “obtuse[e]” question).  But th...

Editor’s note: For quite a while now, social media enthusiasts have been using the hashtag #tbt (or, in long-form, “Throwback Thursday”) as a way to reminisce about the past. Now Lawfare has decided to g...

Rumor has it, that Jeh Johnson, the current Secretary of DHS, is being considered for appointment as the next Secretary of Defense.  Don't do it Mr.

If you peruse the darker corners of the U.S. criminal code---as I used to do in my youthful efforts to educate myself in law without going to law school---you'll eventually stumble across 18 U.S.C. § 708...

A year ago this week, China abruptly declared an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering a large area of the East China Sea, including islands the legal possession of which China disputes with Ja...

The intelligence community has no set of general principles for judging the privacy impact of their programs.  Some privacy scholars believe that the Fair Information Protection Principles (FIPPs) serve ...

The Government Performance Results Act (GPRA) requires the Executive Branch to conduct detailed strategic planning prior to spending money. The laws that govern the President when he introduces the men ...

Earlier this Fall I wrote about how certain materials from the In Re Directives litigation before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (“FISCR” or “Court”) had been declassified.