Alan Rozenshtein is a third-year student at Harvard Law School, where he is an articles editor on the Harvard Law Review. While at law school he has interned in the violent crimes and terrorism section of the criminal division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice. He graduated with an A.B. in history from Harvard University in 2007 and studied philosophy at Balliol College, University of Oxford from 2007 to 2008. You can reach him by email at rozenshtein.lawfare@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter at @arozenshtein.
Jack highlighted a Wired story last week about a computer virus infecting the Air Force’s drone fleet, including the virtual “cockpits” at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. Wired reported on Tuesday that no one at Creech told the Air … Read more »
Members of both the House and Senate this week criticized China for what Representative Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) called “a massive and sustained intelligence effort by a government to blatantly steal commercial data and intellectual property.” At a hearing before the … Read more »
CNN is reporting that Haji Mali Khan, the senior commander of the Afghan Haqqani insurgent group, was captured in a joint Afghan-NATO operation on Tuesday (the announcement of his capture was delayed until today because of difficulties confirming his identity). … Read more »
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Samir Khan, a 25-year old U.S. citizen from North Carolina, was killed in the same drone strike that targeted Anwar al-Aulaqi. According to Foreign Policy, Khan “helped create the media architecture of … Read more »
Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit announced decisions in Al Shimari v. CACI International and Al-Quraishi v. L-3 Services, Inc. Both cases involved tort suits brought by Iraqi civilians against U.S. military contractors alleged to have engaged in detention and interrogation abuses … Read more »
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General released an interim report on the Department’s handling of “known or suspected” terrorists who have entered the government’s witness protection program. The report found, among other things, that information on some program participants had not been turned over to no-fly list authorities; and, that two such people could not be located—though one… Read more »
