The subject of lethal autonomous weapons has been one of considerable debate on this site—following a Human Rights Watch report calling for a preemptive international ban on such systems. Last week, the Georgetown National Security Law Society took the … Read more »
On Thursday, I participated in a particularly good discussion at Georgetown University Law Center on “Legal and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Weapons.” Hosted by the school’s National Security Law Society, the event was moderated by Washingtonian‘s Shane Harris and … Read more »
In its latest transparency report published this week, Google began sharing very general data about the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) it receives from the FBI or other government agencies seeking non-content transactional data in relation to national security … Read more »
Over at Washingtonian’s new Dead Drop blog, Shane Harris has this fascinating piece, mining a just-released book for new information about the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping activities. Here’s how it opens:
More than a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
My excitement over Shane Harris’s new blog, Dead Drop, provides a catalyst for an action I have been meaning to take for some time: creating an automated page on Lawfare for outside news feeds of particular value for Lawfare … Read more »
This is very exciting: Shane Harris has a new blog: Dead Drop, a “blog about national security and Washington.” Shane, for those readers unfamiliar with his work, is a national security features writer over at Washingtonian. … Read more »
Over at Washingtonian, Shane Harris has a very generous blog post about Ritika and my recent chapter on James Madison and civil liberties during the War of 1812—which was published as part of a recent book edited by my … Read more »
Washingtonian writer and respected, strict-constructionist Smackdown judge Shane Harris has this piece on last Sunday’s Main Event. Here’s how it begins:
Sunday was a great day for flying. Flying drones, that is. But not within a 15-mile radius of the
Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this snarky little piece about what Mark Owen aka the “squealing SEAL” can do to stay out of prison—since the Pentagon has decided that the book does, in fact, reveal classified information and is debating … Read more »
We have two new entrants in the Smackdown—and we have a judge.
Shane Harris—senior editor of Washingtonian magazine and author of this book about surveillance and this paper on the “Human-Free Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”—will officiate.… Read more »
Gabriella Blum has a new essay out entitled, “Invisible Threats.” Part of the Emerging Threats series of the Hoover Institution’s Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law (of which Jack, Ken, Matt, and I am are all … Read more »
It is a great pleasure to announce the first episode of the Lawfare Podcast:
The Lawfare Podcast quite literally speaks for itself, so I won’t spend a lot of time introducing it. Like a lot of things we do … Read more »
Journalist Shane Harris (senior writer for Washingtonian magazine and author of the well-received 2010 book, The Watchers) has written a briefing paper for the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law’s Emerging Threats series, Out of the Loop: … Read more »
Shane Harris, senior writer for Washington magazine and author of the The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare‘s 9/11 10th Anniversary Project:
On September 11, 2001, I
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Leading the news: President Obama speaks today at the National Defense University on counterterrorism policy. Many are previewing the speech, including John. According to the New York Times’s Charlie Savage and Peter Baker, Obama will announce more stringent targeting criteria for non-battlefield strikes. This approach will govern the use of force against both citizens and non-citizens.
Here are the Washington … Read more »
