The saga of Irek Hamidullin has come to a close, more or less, with a life sentence (plus 30 years) in a Virginia courtroom today. You may recall the name: Hamidullin was once a Russian tank commander, ...

Buried in this morning's article covering the ongoing U.S.-China cybersecurity talks, Chinese state-owned media outlet Xinhua News said that an investigation had determined that the hack of the Office of...

Earlier I wrote a short primer on refugee law for those who follow this blog. It seems worthwhile to follow up with the news that yesterday several former national security officials sent a letter to Se...

A few weeks ago, I took note of the comments of China-cybersecurity expert James Lewis to the effect that those much-derided US indictments of PLA hackers had actually had a big impact of Chinese cyber-s...

Meet Diesel. He lives next door to me and as his owner tells it, Diesel is always a "nice" dog, but sometimes not a very "good" one. This photo is one of his latest adventures -- he managed to figure o...

In a letter recently released by Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS), the State Department emphasized that the Iran deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – is not binding under internationa...

Typically, this blog does not focus on immigration law. That seems to me appropriate. After all, most immigration questions are, while matters of profound importance to Americans, not really questions ...

Gubernatorial and presidential candidate fretting about refugees, and House passage last week of a bill aimed at effectively halting resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, has the country ...

The five-year targeted killing FOIA litigation by the ACLU and New York Times suffered a setback yesterday when the Second Circuit unsealed an opinion affirming an SDNY ruling from October 2014 allowing ...

By land, by sea and, occasionally, by air, they come carrying with them all what they have left in this bedlam world, which is often nothing more than the clothes on their back. They come seeking shelter...

Many in the world, myself included, sometimes wonder whether the discipline of homeland security actually coheres into a single area of expertise. After all, a successful homeland security leader in the...