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The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections caught the world by surprise. This wasn’t because election interference of that kind hadn’t happened before—it had, just ask the Ukrainians—but simpl...
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Bitcoin and its ilk have gotten a lot of attention recently as the speculation bubble bursts. The negative attributes and uses of cryptocurrency are substantial: Bitcoin is known to facilitate money laun...
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You wouldn’t know it from the endless public discussion of the Nunes Memo and the Democratic response to it, but the House of Representatives does not get to decide whether a FISA application is valid. C...
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In an interview on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Russia is already meddling in the U.S. ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, Fox News reports. Tillerson added that the U.S. is not p...
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On Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent the following letter and proposal to House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce, including a proposal for a Bureau for Cyberspace and the Digit...
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The issue of law enforcement access to data held abroad is in the news again with the Supreme Court set to hear oral argument in United States v. Microsoft on Feb. 27, and Congress considering the recent...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 28, when Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes will interview Max Boot about his new book, “The Road Not Take...
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Turkey and Russia Bombard Syrian Towns
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Governance is one of the most important foreign policy challenges—and among the most difficult. Poor governance is linked to civil wars, corruption and a lack of economic development, among other grave p...
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Lawfare readers are familiar with the perennial regulatory challenge of determining which country’s law enforcement agents ought to be able to access internet data stored in the cloud. This is a consider...
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The New York Times filed the following motion with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requesting the public release of the applications for and orders authorizing electronic surveillance of Trum...
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Sorry that football season is over? Lucky for you, the National Security Law Podcast has no offseason! And lucky for your co-hosts, the world keeps generating new topics for conversation and debate. Thi...
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The Pentagon announced Monday that Harvey Rishikof, convening authority for the military commissions, and Gary Brown, legal adviser to the convening authority, were relieved of their duties, as Carol Ros...
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On Monday, the House intelligence committee voted unanimously to release Democrats’ rebuttal to the Nunes memo, the Washington Post reports. Speaking with reporters after the vote, Rep.
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On Jan. 31, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of Fields v. Twitter. The decision protects the social media company from liability in connection with an a...
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The crypto wars return to The Cyberlaw Podcast in episode 201, as I interview Susan Landau about her new book on the subject, ‘Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age.’ Susan and I have been debat...
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The memo is out, and it is already stale. The Nunes memo makes one central allegation: that the FBI and Department of Justice did not live up to the duty of candor expected of them by the in camera ex pa...
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Tuesday is a busy day on the hill. The following hearings may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
The House Committee on Armed Services is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. on the National ...
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The U.K. Court of Appeal has held that Section 1 of an expired state surveillance law, the 2014 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act, was unlawful as it related to “access to retained data,” or pe...
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At the heart of the now-released “Nunes memo” is an accusation that the FBI and Department of Justice misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) when they sought orders to surveil former T...