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This past Monday, I had the honor of moderating a panel organized by students at the American University Washington College of Law’s National Security Law Brief, on Understanding the Global Implications ...
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As Ben notes, the USG denied a Bloomberg News report that the “U.S.
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The other day, walking out of Aikido class, I was chatting with a friend about Heartbleed. I joked that the latest revelation reminded me of a scene from the classic Martin Scorsese movie, After Hours. I...
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When last we checked in on the metadata preservation saga, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had authorized the government---in contravention of its prior order---to retain metadata beyond the ...
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In another round of “privacy versus security” in the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on April 8, 2014 struck down the European Union’s Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC.
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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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The recent announcements by the President and the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee marked the beginning of the end of more than a decade of bulk metadata collection by the government under evo...
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On Sunday, the Yale Information Society Project held an excellent symposium on the international policy implications of “Big Data.” I took part in the event (see livestream here), which touched on many t...
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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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I was asked to give testimony today before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on two topics that may seem largely unconnected: the vitality and adequacy of the AUMF for the conflict the United States i...
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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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Henry V’s claim to the throne of France is “as clear as is the summer’s sun,” explains the Archbishop of Canterbury in Shakespeare’s play. The joke, of course, is that he has come to this conclusion fol...