Intelligence activities

From France's perspective, letting private actors conduct hack-back operations is unacceptable domestically and should not be allowed by the international community.

Germany's proposed cyber and surveillance reforms risk enabling intelligence services to watch — and act — in secret.

Introducing a series on the expansion of cyber and surveillance powers convened by the Atlantic Council in partnership with Just Security.

How to safeguard elections against genuine foreign interference while preventing incumbent governments from exploiting allegations of interference to undermine voting rights?

States should treat spyware governance as a top-tier political priority and work toward a binding, enforceable regulatory framework.

The law of armed conflict is not suited to provide the legal clarity the public desires immediately following attacks that kill civilians.

Congress should establish a bipartisan commission to investigate errors in going to war with Iran and how the war has been waged.

An intelligence official on what the declassified material shows—and does not show—about foreign threats and the president’s allegation of an intelligence community cover-up.

Ryan Goodman sits down with Andrew Weissmann, former FBI General Counsel and DOJ veteran, to unpack FISA reauthorization.

A rebuttal to George Croner’s critique of the Brennan Center’s “Myths and Facts” on FISA Section 702 backdoor searches and why RISAA falls short.

Former senior CIA and head of Interfor Academy assess the potential intelligence failures in U.S. preparation for Iran war.

A warrant mandate is unnecessary, legally mistaken, and damaging to national security as the program faces expiration on April 20, 2026.