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Given Ben's report on the oral argument, today's fairly cryptic D.C. Circuit opinion in al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, throwing out a damages suit arising out of the deaths of several inmates at Guantanamo, is...
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Joel Brenner, who served as inspector general of the National Security Agency and as the national counterintelligence executive in the DNI's office, joined Jack the other day to discuss his new book, Ame...
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In his NYT column today, Bill Keller argues that Wikileaks “was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald, as the documentarians yearn to believe, some new digital age of transpar...
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Friday afternoon, the Obama Administration filed a cert. petition in Clapper v.
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When I was younger, I didn’t like to eat my peas. So I always put them off for last, but eventually, I’d realize that it was something I had to do and … just do it.
I feel a little like that in writing...
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Late last week, seven senior Republican Senators sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, complaining that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was being rushed through and that they had not been adequately...
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Two days ago, I posted video and audio of a Brookings Campaign 2012 event on policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan in the next administration. The event featured a paper entitled, “Maximizing Chances f...
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The New York Times is reporting that a group of flu and public health experts at a WHO-convened meeting in Geneva have decided that the full research details will be released regarding the highly contagi...
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The complaint against Amine El Khalifi is posted here. What follows is the description from DOJ’s press release:
WASHINGTON – A 29 year-old man residing in Alexandria, Va., was arrested today for all...
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[Update: Mary replies to this post here.]
Ben's commentary on Mary Dudziak's NYT piece has generated this reply from Mary, in which she raises several interesting questions. As a general proposition, I...
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In breaking news, the Washington Post reports that authorities have arrested a Moroccan gentleman by the name of Amine el-Khalifi for planning a suicide bombing on the U.S. Capitol. Undercover FBI agents...
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Ritika linked yesterday to this New York Times oped by USC law professor Mary Dudziak, which opens:
THE defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, recently announced that America hoped to end its combat mission...
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The Senate is currently holding hearings on the upcoming cybersecurity bill. You can watch the live feed here.
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It's nice to know that someone is reading these posts. I had a pleasant email from one of the Senior Democratic Aides who I spoke of in my last post. He offered the following, which I quote with his pe...
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Two days ago, I wrote about the “great cybersecurity carve out.” My point was that the definition of critical cyber infrastructure in the newly-introduced Senate cybersecurity bill seemed to have an imp...
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Let's begin with Iranians blowing things up: Three Iranians were detained in Bangkok yesterday after a series of bombs went off in the heart of the city. Thai officials assert that the bombs were intende...
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I hope it is not snarkish to hope that by the time I hit "publish" on this post, the director of the National Constitution Center's "Peter Jennings Project," Todd Brewster, will have corrected his articl...
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In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facili...
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Let's start with the cybersecurity legislative news: As we mentioned yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has introduced the Senate's cybersecurity bill, S. 2105. Read Paul Rosenzweig's analysis ...