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On Thursday, September 15th I will be presenting a paper entitled “Drones, Targeting, and Civilian Casualties” at Loyola University New Orleans- College of Law and at the Louisiana State University- Paul M. Hebert Law Center.  

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WIRED Magazine Reports Efforts to Secure Nation’s Power Grid Ineffective:

The official government cybersecurity standards for the electric power grid fall far short of even the most basic security standards observed by noncritical industries, according to a new audit.

The standards have also been implemented spottily and in illogical ways, concludes a Jan. 26 report [...]

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I recently reviewed Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism, by Stewart Baker former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security Policy.  The review appears in Engage, Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010. I’ve pasted the text of the review below.

Policy Paralysis and Homeland Security:  A Review of Skating on Stilts: [...]

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I will be in London today, appearing at the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation at Kings College.  My talk is entitled “Law Enforcement or Intelligence? Divergent Organizational Goals in U.S. Counterterrorism.”

The talk will describe the organizational structure of the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division, the [...]

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I was recently interviewed by CNN regarding WikiLeaks and what prospective applicants for government jobs should know before publicly reposting the documents.  Overall, I think the story fairly captured my thoughts, which can be boiled down to this:  Rightly or wrongly, government employers may consider all manner of prior experience, conduct and statements [...]

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In today’s Wall Street Journal, the editors lament the number of law centers cropping up at law schools, where students and faculty dedicate their time to working on behalf of the Guantanamo detainees.  I don’t see anything wrong with such clinics, in fact I think they provide a valuable service –just as criminal [...]

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Remember in Back to the Future II, when Doc came back from the future in the Delorean?  Remember how he powered up that flux capacitor without using plutonium, instead using some trash (a banana peel, some beer and the beer can)? 

Well, it looks like the U.S. Army has figured out a similar [...]

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I woke up today to the voice of a hotel employee announcing that the building’s power was out, as was the power for an entire city block. It turns out that the power outage in DC is a bit larger than my hotel employee knew. I hiked it from the hotel for a [...]

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Jim Carafano at The Heritage Foundation has posted a copy of his insightful testimony before Congress entitled “Moving Beyond the First Five Years: Solving the Department of Homeland Security’s Management Challenges.” His key recommended priorities include:

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