It’s almost like Christmas. I just got the cover design for Skating on Stilts, my policy memoir about DHS, terrorism, and technology. I found the artist, Mart Klein, on line and explained the basic picture I had in mind. Much credit to Hoover Press, though, for the font and cover design. Book covers, like everything […]
Author Archive | Stewart Baker
“If you don’t want us to see you naked, maybe we’ll just put bees down your pants.”
TSA is facing new challenges from powerful explosives hidden in areas that usually can’t be searched until after dinner and a nice wine. No one is wild about the millimeter wave and backscatter machines that show how we’d look on the beach if we were dumb enough to wear Speedos. The “puffer” machines that tried […]
Swift Justice?
Gabriel Schoenfeld points out in the Weekly Standard that the administration’s nominee to be general counsel of the Army, Solomon B. Watson IV, was general counsel of the New York Times when it broke the story of the Treasury’s program to uncover terrorist financing. Watson has drawn fire for his role in allowing the disclosure […]
More on Liz Cheney
Eugene and Jonathan and a host of others have joined in defending the pro bono work that some Justice lawyers did for Guantanamo detainees. To me, though, this seems to be a much harder question than the critics make it out to be. To start with, some of the arguments in favor of the attorneys […]
“Wait, don’t change the channel! We left Fox News out of the Privacy Assessment.”
By Stewart Baker on February 13, 2010 1:11 pm in Libertarianism, Privacy, Terrorism, Uncategorized, War on Terror
With his usual nudge-and-wink, Matt Drudge invites us to be dismayed that “BIG SIS” — his moniker for Janet Napolitano — is “Monitoring Web Sites for Terror and Disaster Info.” Drudge links to a story saying that DHS will be monitoring social media like Twitter, as well as websites like Drudge, to keep abreast of […]