The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — The State Department envoy who negotiates detainee transfers from the military prison at

Following President Obama’s announcement that the US would begin normalizing relations with Cuba, questions immediately arose on the possible extradition of Joanne Deborah Chesimard, also known as Assata...

The New York Times is reporting that the entire North Korean network is off line as of right now.  No information at all on the cause.  Here is the opening from the article: North Korea’s already tenuou...

Now that the United States has concluded that North Korea was responsible for the hack into Sony’s computers, it has begun to make noises about responding to that hack in some way.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Yesterday, as CIA Director John Brennan spoke about the release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Study of CIA Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Senator Dianne Feinsten (D-CA) live tweete...

In this post, we proceed with Lawfare's ongoing, side-by-side comparison of the SSCI Study's key findings, and responses to them by both the SSCI Minority as well as the CIA. By way of reminder, the SSC...