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We know about how difficult it has been to fill the top job at DHS. It seems that the same is true of some of the career posts---especially the ones that deal with cybersecurity. According to a recent ...
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The NYT has the text of the draft UN Security Council Resolution on Syria. The most important paragraph is the penultimate one, which states that the Security Council “[d]ecides, in the event of non-com...
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The other day, I was driving down Massachusetts Avenue talking on my car's speaker phone system to Rajesh De, general counsel of the National Security Agency. Raj had called me on my Google Voice phone n...
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James A.
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The latest episode of Intelligence² Debates is over the resolution, "The U.S. Drones Program is Fatally Flawed." It's an interesting program, though I have to say that I think the Oxford Union debate thi...
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Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a story about Nathan Myhrvold's Lawfare Research Paper Series paper: "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action." Along the way, it also contains some nice words abou...
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Julian Ku is right to poke fun at the administration for conveying its vague and conclusory legal rationale for intervening in Syria through the reporting of the NYT’s Charlie Savage. But vague and conc...
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The other day, I posted this video of a drone crashing into the stands at a local sporting event.
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Senators Manchin and Heitcamp are working on an alternative Syria Resolution that tentatively provides:
The failure by the government of Bashar al-Assad to sign and comply with the [Chemical Weapons] Con...
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John Dehn, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a Senior Fellow in West Point's Center for the Rule of Law, writes in with this comment about Syria and humanitarian intervention:
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Earlier today I said that President Obama’s dismissal of a Security Council authorization as a prerequisite for intervention in Syria “marks the death knell for the long-held USG view that humanitarian i...
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As Congress moves to debate authorization for the use of force in Syria, and especially since there is some question about whether DOD has adequate funding for a strike in Syria, Congress may want to pon...