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What President Obama Should Say About Guantanamo in the State of the Union
In his State of the Union address, President Obama will undoubtedly address issues of terrorism, including the new threats posed by ISIS and Al Qaida and the recent attacks in Paris. Much has changed s... -
Why Are Commentators So Quick to Call Paris a Lone Wolf Attack?
Although new facts are emerging each day, and we can anticipate that the facts will continue to develop, I have been surprised by recent commentary (this for example), suggesting that the Paris attacks a... -
China Releases a "Position Paper" in the Ongoing Philippines-China Arbitration
As readers might recall, two years ago the Philippines launched an arbitration process against China under the auspices of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Although its exact claims re... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, the U.S. released five Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo Bay. Oman, which shares a border with Yemen, has accepted four of the five detainees, while the fifth man has been resettled in Estonia. F... -
Accountability as a Security System
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... -
We Are Losing Money
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... -
Five More Transfers From GTMO
The five detainees are Yemeni; four went to Oman, and one to Estonia, apparently. -
Rational Security, Episode #2: The "I Have Marshall McLuhan Right Here" Episode
Last week, I introduced a new podcast that Shane Harris, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and I are doing entitled, Rational Security. -
Did the FBI Just Prevent an Attack in DC from a Homegrown ISIS Supporter?
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... -
CIA Review: CIA Didn't Snoop Improperly on SSCI Staff
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. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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... -
Notes on the Erosion of Norms of Armed Conflict
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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