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The Washington Post has an interesting article this morning on a website that posts rankings of hackers. The concept is that hackers earn points based on level of difficulty of the hack, as well as the ...
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The new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Alan Krueger, challenged the Bush administration's assertion that invading Iraq would reduce world-wide terror, Nancy Scola at the Atlantic writes.
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Ibrahim al-Rubeish, a senior member of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, who is also a former Guantanamo detainee has recommended to UAE interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud to ...
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If you apply for this job, you probably should refrain from mentioning that you read about it on Lawfare:
Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program
Location: Washington, DC
Department: Liberty and...
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In kicking off Lawfare's 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, howe...
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Over at the Council on Foreign Relations web site, Matthew Waxman offers a brief essay on lessons learned on detention policy from the last ten years:
An important lesson since the 9/11 attacks is that d...
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Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here.
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Another Mark Mazzetti story from the past week that deserves your attention: this piece, which sheds some additional light on the intelligence and logistical support that the United States is providing t...
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Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda's top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took ove...
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The 10th anniversary of September 11 is, as everyone knows, coming up soon, and it promises a veritable orgy of selective memory. America's debate over law and security is, in general, characterized by a...
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The New York Times is reporting that the CIA has demanded "extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda." Ali Soufan has been a v...
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Thomas Drake, the former NSA employee who was charged with leaking classified information, in a case that collapsed last month, has this oped in the Washington Post today. Money quote:
From 2001 through ...
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The New York Time's Charlie Savage has obtained a copy of former Vice President Cheney's forthcoming memoir. Not a lot in his story about the book that will surprise on matters of interest to readers of ...
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I just had a meeting with a thoughtful European journalist who was working on a September 11 10th anniversary feature. Much to my surprise, she did not want to talk about Guantanamo, or interrogation, or...
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Matt Dahl is a 2009 graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law who works on legal and policy issues for a cybersecurity company in Virginia. We are pleased to welcome his guest post, which dis...
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Another interesting legal issue touched upon in Joby Warrick's The Triple Agent concerns the difficulty of defining the set of groups or networks against which force lawfully may be used. This issue has...
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The AP's Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman have a long story out today, focused on the NYPD's Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau. The story paints NYPD as having developed an unchecked intellig...
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This should be of interest to a great many Lawfare readers:
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