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The transatlantic dialog on security matters often has a frustrating ships-passing-in-the-night quality to it. So I was interested to see this unusually constructive and valuable policy paper on drones a...
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Several recent high-profile news items have shone a spotlight on the relationship between the government and private industry in national security matters, an area not frequently discussed in the media.
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Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper:
In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation...
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Egypt has a new Prime Minister---or not.
State news media announced on Saturday that Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize winner and outspoken critic of the Brotherhood and the Mubarak regime, had been appoin...
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Nathan Myhrvold writes in with the following addendum to his paper, "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action," which we published the other day:
In the days since Ben posted my paper, I've been asked a fa...
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It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare---though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt.
We covered the latter's unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature...
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That's the sum and substance of this Reuters piece (run here in the New York Times). It begins as follows:
CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contra...
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Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi is seeking en banc review of his habeas petition from the D.C. Circuit. Best of luck with that.
A panel of the court affirmed Al Warafi's detention back in May. Lots of cove...
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Here's something you don't see every day: A leftist defense of the NSA and critique of leaker Edward Snowden.
It ran a few days ago in a publication called In These Times, which I used to read back when...
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So much violence tonight.
When people called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they clashed against state security forces with a clear goal in mind. There was a positive objective. Not ...
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Although President Obama's visit to South Africa went off uneventfully, it is worth reporting belatedly that the Muslim Lawyers Association in South Africa had filed an application with a South African c...
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We blogged earlier in the week about a motion brought by four detainees at Guantanamo----Ahmed Belbacha, Nabil Hadjarab, Abu Wa'el (Jihad) Dhiab, and Shaker Aamer.
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From Shane Harris, shot in Santiago de Compostela in Spain:
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The NYT, based on a Le Monde story, reports that “France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social med...
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In the U.S., the Fourth of July is the nation's birthday. In Egypt, it's the first day of the rest of the country's life.
It happened so fast that many of us are still in shock, still processing everyth...
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Well, I'm back from China and I'm quite glad I did not take my personal electronics with me. I thought it might be useful to summarize my experiences with internet access in China, kind of as a report f...
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Early this morning the White House released a statement by President Obama on Egypt stating, inter alia, that "Given today's developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to re...
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At 7 p.m. this evening, Mohamed Morsi was informed by the armed forces that he was no longer president of Egypt. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has been sacked and sentenced to one year in prison. All I ca...
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Earlier this week Ben posted on a motion, brought by a group of Guantanamo detainees and asking the District Court to preliminarily enjoin force-feeding at the detention facility. The court ordered the ...
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A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures.