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Today we will appear before the House Judiciary Committee, and will argue that Congress should put to rest the question of military detention for domestic captures. More specifically, we will argue that...
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Bill Keller of the NYT urges President Obama to order the Justice Department “to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility” to fully examine the IRS imbroglio ...
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This time last year, we posted a readership survey that a larger number of Lawfare readers were kind enough to fill out. The results were extremely helpful, so we thought we'd do it again.
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Just in time for the President's speech on Thursday, the Hoover Institution has released Chapter 2 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law....
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An administration national security official writes in with the following thoughts on the furor over the warrant application against James Rosen of Fox News:
There is a great deal of hyperventilation---m...
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William P. Barr (former Attorney General), Jamie S. Gorelick (former Deputy AG), and Kenneth L. Wainstein (former Assistant AG for National Security) have this Times op-ed on the AP subpoena controversy....
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Ben and Bobby will be testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee on "Protecting U.S. Citizens' Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror" at 10 am tomorrow at 2141 Rayburn House Office Bui...
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On Thursday, President Obama will be giving a major address on national security and counterterrorism, styled as a companion to the 2009 National Archives address. That 2009 speech adopted a pragmatic a...
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When I wrote, last week, about the insecurity of Gmail, I was intending to gently mock the idea that the CIA might have such a bad sense of how Gmail works (and the Terms of Service under which it is pro...
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Editor's Note: below you'll find a fourth and final post in our series by David Kris, on possible reforms to surveillance statutes.
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My Brookings colleague Suzanne Maloney today launched a blog that will interest a lot of Lawfare readers.
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As Jack posted yesterday---and as everyone is buzzing about---President Obama will give a major counterterrorism speech on Thursday at the National Defense University.
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A few years ago I wrote an op-ed that gave these reasons (among others) why the USG should not prosecute Julian Assange for the WikiLeaks disclosures of State Department cables:
A conviction [of Assange]...
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I meant to post on this last week and clean forgot until I heard a bit of it on CSPAN radio yesterday. The Heritage Foundation held this event on detainee policy featuring all four people who have held t...
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Editor's Note: below you'll find the third in a series of posts by David Kris on surveillance reform.
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Editor's Note: this is the second in a series of four posts by David Kris, on large-scale surveillance reform.
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The President will give a speech on counterterrorism at the National Defense University on Thursday, reports the WP:
A White House official, speaking Saturday on the condition of anonymity to describe th...
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On the Lawfare menu this week was a lot of discussion of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, docket updates in a number of related court cases, detention matters, surveillance law, two ...
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Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of four posts, in which David S. Kris discusses the possibility of wide-ranging reform to U.S. surveillance law.
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The dictionary defines a "kris" as "a Malayan and Indonesian stabbing or slashing knife with a scalloped edge." On this site, however, The Way of the Kris is not some new Mark Mazzetti book about Obama a...