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Unless there is good reason to believe that the Tsarnaev brothers were acting as agents of al Qaeda or some other AUMF-covered group, talk of putting Dzhokar Tsarnaev into military custody as an enemy co...
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Here is the MIT student newspaper The Tech's report on last night incidents.
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We're reposting our Twitter feed of reliable sources on the manhunt that's ongoing in Boston right now. As with last time: "This does not mean that everything they are saying will turn out to be correct....
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It has been widely reported that the two prime suspects in the Boston marathon bombings---one who was killed in a shootout early this morning---are ethnic Chechens.
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Harvard Law School professor Gabriella Blum has posted a book chapter to SSRN, "The Individualization of War: From Collectivism to Individualization in the Regulation of Warfare," appearing in Sarat, Dou...
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. . . where one of the Boston Marathon suspects is dead and the other is on murderous rampage: It is very important that the remaining suspect be taken alive.
The New York Times has identified the two s...
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My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a technology and cybersecurity expert, sent over this comment on the House's approval, yesterday, of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CIS...
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The latest news on the Boston bombings: investigators have focused on two individuals who, according to video captured by a nearby security camera, appeared to carry black backpacks near the Marathon's f...
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Readers of this blog will know that I have been skeptical of the International Telecommunications Union and its efforts to update the International Telecommunications Regulations. I still am cautious ...
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That's the title of this interesting little photo collection. The New York Times' Charlie Savage posted the pictures of the detention facility's library.
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The House of Representatives has passed the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, by a vote of 288-127. This happened after several amendments were adopted (most notably one offered by ...
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Financial resources for terrorist groups probably should get more attention here at Lawfare than we give it. We know that interdiction of terrorist financing has been utterly crucial as a tool of counte...
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In this short video, Lord Martin Rees---the British astrophysicist and cosmologist--gives a brief and elegant statement of the problem Gabriella Blum and I have been writing a book about: the disseminati...
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I am delighted to announce the appointment of Lawfare's first managing editor: Wells C. Bennett.
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="160"] Wells C. Bennett[/caption]
Wells is already well-known to ...
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This evening, President Obama nominated Avril Haines to be the next Legal Adviser of the State Department.
Avril currently serves Deputy Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Securi...
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Michael J. Glennon, of Tufts University, has an important new piece out entitled "The Dark Future of Cybersecurity Regulation." It's a realistic view, in my judgement, of the prospects of international ...
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Senator Robert Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, and President Obama were sent envelopes that tested positive for ricin---a known toxin.
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That's the word on the street, the military judge having granted the defense's request for a continuance.
In seeking a delay, lawyers for the five defendants had expressed concerns about information tec...
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This morning's opinion in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum concludes that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims brought under the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), and that nothing in th...
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