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Editor’s Note: Drone warfare and its many implications is a favorite subject for Lawfare readers. Yet even as the United States develops policies for the use of drones on and off the battlefield, it must...
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Once again, FISA was front and center on Laware this week.
Tim Edgar gave us a lesson in intelligence surveillance law 101, defining terms like “incidental collection” and “collection over the wire.” Ch...
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The following is audio of the conference last week in Austin hosted by the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint venture of the Strauss Center and Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
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As he noted below, Ben is testifying in front of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. The title of the hearing is "Is al-Qaeda Winning?
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Two hearings this week to take note of:
Tomorrow, Tuesday April 8th at 2pm: The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade will hold a hearing on "Is al-Qaeda Winning?
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Editor’s Note: The Arab Spring and the subsequent backlash from authoritarian regimes have created new rifts in the Middle East. One of the biggest new divides is between those who support and those who ...
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Let’s begin with NSA news: Wells flagged a joint DNI and AG statement announcing that the government will seek a 90-day extension of the current 215 program as an interim measure pending reform legislati...
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Published by Princeton University Press (2013)
Reviewed by Steven Aftergood
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We begin the week with cybersecurity. On Friday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a lengthy speech on cyber policy at Gen. Keith Alexander's retirement ceremony. The Secretary stated that the Pentag...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Editor's Note: As the U.S. military draws down in Afghanistan, the large-scale conventional military component of the “war on terror” may be at an end. Yet Al Qaeda is tied to many of the insurgencies cu...
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Let’s start with this week’s big terrorism trial news, the speedy conviction of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, in federal court. Ritika noted the verdict as it happened and linked to ...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Published by PublicAffairs (2013)
Reviewed by Alan Rozenshtein
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Editor’s Note: The United States has long favored a robust international order—but defining the salient characteristics of the international order and evaluating its structure and stability can be diffic...
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Let's start with NSA news. This week, attention shifted slightly from from NSA’s domestic 215 program to its foreign collection activities.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Editor’s Note: Although the “Israel lobby” and the support of the American Jewish community for Israel have long received considerable attention, the U.S. evangelical community and its strong backing for...
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The big news this week was the public explosion of long-simmering tensions between CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee over a soon-to-be-completed report on Bush-era interrogation techniques. Wells...