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USG Seems Befuddled About How to Respond to Sony Hack
David Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, and Eric Schmitt have a must-read NYT story on USG thinking about a response to the Sony hack, allegedly carried by the North Korean government. The story is jaw-dropping ... -
The Sony Hack: Attribution Problems, and the Connection to Domestic Surveillance
The FBI said today of the Sony hack: As a result of our investigation, . . . the FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions. -
On the Sony Hack
I've written two essays on the Sony hack, one for the Wall Street Journal, and the other for Vice Motherboard. The former opens: Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Pea... -
Thoughts on the SSCI Report, Part II: The Program's Brutality
I want to begin my review of the SSCI interrogation report and the responses from the CIA and the SSCI minority by addressing the area in which, in my view, the majority report is strongest: the allegati... -
The Perils of Torture Agnosticism (Or, How <em>Not</em> to Read the SSCI Report)
It’s now been 10 days since the release of the Executive Summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) study of the CIA detainee program—almost certainly to be known to posterity as the... -
The SSCI Report and Its Critics: Torturing Efficacy
Polarization surrounding the SSCI Report (see here for Lawfare’s coverage) has been most pronounced on the efficacy of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). The Report and its supporters have proclai... -
Thoughts on the SSCI Report, Part I: Introduction and Overview
I have now spent enough quality time with the SSCI interrogation report---and with minority views and the CIA response---that I am ready to begin commenting upon it. This is not to say I have finished re... -
Our Collective Privacy Panic
We are told there is a privacy crisis. The Snowden revelation and other such things have given the sense that we are in a crisis. I think what we have is a privacy panic. What I would call the Snowden... -
Findings, Conclusions and Areas of Dispute Between the SSCI Report, the Minority, and the CIA: Part Five
Here is the fifth and final installment in our running, side-by-side comparison of the twenty findings and conclusions of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Study on the CIA's Detention and In... -
9/11 Defense Counsel on the CIA's Response to the SSCI Study
James Connell III, lawyer for 9/11 accused Ammar al-Baluchi, had this to say today: "The CIA and its defenders are using Mr. al Baluchi as a scapegoat for its illegal and reprehensible use of torture," s... -
The Onion's Minotaur Video
No news source in any medium captures the CIA interrogation debate more fully than this video from the Onion, which bears reposting this week: -
The SFRC Vote on the Menendez AUMF
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-8 yesterday to approve Senator Menendez’s draft AUMF for ISIL.
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