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A Critique of the Trump Administration’s Case for Presidential War Making
On Dec. 11, the New York City Bar Association hosted a session on “The Global War on Terrorism: Do We Need a New AUMF?” William Castle, deputy general counsel of the Department of Defense, explained why ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Friday, the U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on North Korea designed to significantly cut off fuel supplies and order North Koreans working abroad to return home within two years, the New Y... -
Water Wars: East China Sea-son’s Greetings
On Dec. 6, following two days of talks in Shanghai, China and Japan reached a tentative agreement on the implementation of a crisis management hotline to avoid sea and air clashes in disputed areas of th... -
What Did Mike Pompeo Say to the CIA Workforce in his Holiday Message?
I confess that I don't know the answer to this question. But the grapevine has been buzzing this morning in response to a Christmas letter the CIA director apparently sent to his workforce—a message wh... -
Congress Buys Itself Another Three Weeks on Section 702
On Dec. 21, the House and Senate voted 238-188 and 66-32, respectively, to pass a concurring resolution extending government funding until Jan. 19, 2018. One provision of that bill extended the FISA Amen... -
How Should International Law Treat Cyberattacks like WannaCry?
North Korea was behind the infamous WannaCry cyberattack, asserted homeland security adviser Thomas P. Bossert in a Dec. -
Rational Security: The "Beam Me Up, Santa" Edition
Robert Mueller gets hold of emails from the presidential transition. The Pentagon has been researching sightings of UFOs. And a U.S. citizen is being held as an enemy combatant in Iraq. -
The Trump Administration and the United Nations: A Good News Story
My hat is off to the Trump administration’s deft diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council. -
‘Pressure Techniques’ and Oversight of Shin Bet Interrogations: Abu Gosh v. Attorney General
Last week, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision concerning one of the most sensitive areas of counterterrorism policy and practice. The decision considered so-called “pressure techniques” the Is... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Thursday, The U.N. General Assembly voted 128-9 to condemn President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the New York Times reports. The vote, which included 35 abstentio... -
Private-Sector Attribution of Cyber Attacks: A Growing Concern for the U.S. Government?
Attribution of cyber incidents is a reoccurring concern. Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election remains a contentious issue, and on Tuesday, the White House publicly linked North Kore... -
The Strange WannaCry Attribution
I’ve been trying to figure out why the U.S. government thought it was useful to attribute the “WannaCry” attack to North Korea. WannaCry was a global ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of c...
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