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Has the U.S. government’s authority to use military detention under the 2001 authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) quietly expired? So argue a group of eleven Guantanamo detainees in a habea...
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Susan Landau pointed last week to a disagreement between the two of us, saying that current definitions of cybersecurity (such as the HSPD-54 that Herb quoted) are outmoded and a new definition is necess...
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It turns out that the most interesting policy story about Kaspersky software isn’t why the administration banned its products from government use; it’s why the last administration didn’t. Shane Harris is...
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The FBI has arrested former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee. The New York Times reported Tuesday evening that Lee is suspected of providing classified information to the Chinese government that helped Bei...
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In the coming days, the Senate is expected to take up S.139, the bill to reauthorize Title XII of the FISA Amendments Act that the House passed last week, says the Hill. The Senate debate is scheduled to...
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Trump Waives Iran Nuclear Sanctions but Deal Remains at Risk
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding an oversight hearing of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today. Kirstjen Nielsen, the newly-confirmed DHS secretary, will be testifying. You can watch t...
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Every day seems to bring a new article about China’s pervasive use of facial recognition technology.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, provided several bases to justify the rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Judge Wil...
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On first impression, beating the Islamic State fighters to death with shovels sounds like a clear-cut case of stooping to the enemy’s level of barbarity. And yet that is exactly what the senior enlisted ...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 10:00 am: The Brookings Institution will hold an event on Pakistan, America, and Extremism: The Path Ahead. Madiha Afzal, au...
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The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security issued a report Tuesday that inspired a presidential tweet: “New report from DOJ & DHS shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related...
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Editor’s Note: Boko Haram is one of the most violent, and least understood, militant groups in the world. Despite this bloody record, many counterterrorism policymakers and analysts misrepresent the grou...
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With all of the attention paid to President Donald Trump’s confusing tweets about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and his profane description of African nations, another comment he made recentl...
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This week, Shannon Togawa Mercer and Benjamin Wittes interviewed David Anderson QC, who served as the U.K. Government's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation from 2011 to 2017. Anderson has appea...
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The week started with President Donald Trump embroiled in another controversy, as the publication of Fire and Fury sparked new conversations about the president's competence. Bob Bauer suggested that Tru...
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Late Jan. 11, the Department of Commerce issued a report to President Donald Trump detailing whether steel imports threaten U.S. national security. The president now has 90 days to decide how his adminis...
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So what to make of President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he may not submit to an interview with the special counsel? He has said that he will wait and see, and that he plans to consult with “the attor...
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The Trump administration signals it may launch a military strike on North Korea—or not. The U.S. announces it’s cutting aid to Pakistan. And the originator of the Steele dossier tells his side of the sto...
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A review of David Stevenson's 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution (Oxford, 2017).
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