My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a technology and cybersecurity expert, sent over this comment on the House’s approval, yesterday, of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (“CISPA”). The public discourse about the bill troubles him:
For the past two
The other day, I announced a little experiment that grew out of a conversation with Aaron Zelin, an expert on jihadist groups at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
Zelin pointed out that while the analytical community of which
Brookings is hosting Gen. Stanley McChrystal today from 10:00 am EST-11:30 am EST. Here is the link to the live webcast. For those who cannot tune in, we will be posting the full video and the full audio as an … Read more »
The Brookings Institution has released the following video, in which I offer some thoughts on the accuracies and inaccuracies of Zero Dark Thirty. I will be treating this subject in more depth in a review I am writing on … Read more »
Whether you support or oppose the broader U.S. war on terrorism, you are likely to use Yemen to prove your point. Those who are optimistic about the struggle contend that the Al Qaeda core has taken repeated body blows in … Read more »
Three events at Brookings are coming up in the near future that will be of interest to readers:
1. The Internationalization of Law
Ninth Annual Raymond Aron Lecture Featuring Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty and Justice Stephen Breyer
Tuesday, December 18, 2012, … Read more »
At this hour, Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is giving the following speech at the Oxford Union in England:
“The Conflict Against Al Qaeda and its Affiliates: How Will It End?”
Jeh Charles Johnson
General Counsel of the U.S. Department
NPR and WAMU’s Diane Rehm Show yesterday had a remarkably sophisticated and serious hour on the Gaza conflict. Well worth a listen for anyone who’s interested in the ongoing unpleasantness there. Guests included:
Michael Oren—Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
This is the latest piece in the interview series I have done over the last few months with terrorism and regional experts about non-legal issues of pertinence to Lawfare readers. For this episode, I interviewed American University professor and nonresident … Read more »
Today, in preparation for the Lawfare Drone Smackdown, and to kill some time I might have spent productively, I decided to fly my drone around the Governance Studies offices at Brookings.
The Mission? To deliver a note to Brookings … Read more »
The other day, David Anderson, the U.K.’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, dropped by Brookings to talk with me about legislative proposals in Britain for a Closed Material Proceeding in civil litigation that involves intelligence activities. Anderson’s office has … Read more »
Last week, Brookings published an interesting paper “A Vision for Homeland Security in the Year 2025,” by Darrell West. The paper is the result of a rather large session conducted at Brookings last November (in which I took part) and … Read more »
I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper–The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking–because the redesign of the Brookings web site temporarily messed up a bunch of … Read more »
We are grateful to Katie Bacon and the rest of the crew at the Harvard Law Bulletin for this very nice piece discussing the HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security as well as Lawfare, and to Dean Minow for the … Read more »
Near the time we launched this blog last September (has it really only been half a year?), there was an impressive symposium on the topic of “lawfare” at Case. The articles for that symposium have now been published by the … Read more »
In an act of shocking infidelity to Lawfare, I posted this on the Brookings web site. For those too lazy to click on the link–or too mortified by my unfaithfulness to dignify it by doing so–here is what I wrote:… Read more »
Brookings has just released a paper I have been working on with two coauthors on rationalizing government collection authorities for data held in the hands of third parties. The paper, entitled “Rationalizing Government Collection Authorities: A Proposal for Radical … Read more »
A few days ago, I expressed doubt as to the veracity of the President’s comments that “Guantanamo is probably the number one recruitment tool that is used by these jihadist organizations.” I did so tentatively because I am no expert … Read more »
A while back, Jeff Rosen and I started a project at Brookings trying to imagine areas in which technology threatens to render constitutional principles or values obsolete and how judges, legislators, and the political system generally might respond. The project, … Read more »
This afternoon, the Brookings Institution was honored to host Justice Stephen Breyer for a lively discussion, which I moderated, on his new book: Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View. The full audio is available on the Brookings web … Read more »
I promised I would offer thoughts on Tom Malinowski’s latest missive after I had a chance to digest and reflect on it. Since then, I have been mostly digesting and reflecting on Justice Breyer’s new book, on which I … Read more »
Judge A. Raymond Randolph, in his speech the other day at the Heritage Foundation, addressed two intertwined but ultimately distinct issues: Whether the Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision is historically and jurisprudentially sound, and the “mess” it has created in … Read more »
Everyone seems to have very strong views about where to try KSM. I don’t. I think there’s a defensible case for trying him in a military commission. I think there’s a defensible case for trying him in a civilian court. … Read more »
Friday, May 24, 2013
Coverage of President Obama’s speech yesterday is plentiful: Here are Peter Baker of the New York Times, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller of the Washington Post, and Mark Mazzetti of the Times with an analysis of the key points of the speech. Scott Wilson of the Post also provides a rundown of the speech, and cites Ben. The Associated Press reports on lifting the transfer ban on Yemeni detainees, and Colleen McCain Nelson, Adam Entous, and Julia E. Barnes… Read more »
