Are Submarines Becoming Obsolete?  Perhaps, in light of enhanced data processing capabilities.  "[T]he ability of submarines to hide through quieting alone will decrease as each successive decibel of noi...

From the website of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB): this helpful table, which was assembled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and released today. It describe...

Editor's note: Below, we offer our latest roundup of Lawfare-relevant items from the Middle East and North Africa. As we noted last week, this feature will appear occasionally and is modeled on Paul Rose...

Yesterday, speaking at the National Press Club, Attorney General Eric Holder was asked a question about the Obama administration's prosecution of leakers, and he offered the following thoughts: Question:...

Yesterday’s New York Times carried a story about how the United States has found a way to “permanently embed surveillance and sabotage tools in [targeted] computers and networks.” If the reporting on Eq...

President Obama’s recent comments calling for a public debate on encryption are, as Susan Landau recently pointed out, some much-needed straight talk about the issue.

The Miami Herald (via the AP's Ben Fox) has a piece on the Court of Military Commission Review's (CMCR) ruling; Jess Bravin also has this report in the Wall Street Journal.  The decision can be found he...

Monday’s district court decision enjoining President Obama’s immigration plan, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), was a strong rebuke of presidential overreaching, although it was framed as...

Last Friday, as part of the Cybersecurity summit at Stanford, President Obama announced a new information sharing initiative, and issued an Executive Order that was tied to the initiative.  The EO will, ...

The press and the political junkies are all wrapped up in a discussion of the coming show down over the shut down of the Department of Homeland Security. The isn’t really about homeland security, of cour...