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The Chinese government announced Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing from Sunday to Wednesday, AP reports. The unofficial trip marked Kim’s fir...
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On March 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his annual address to the Federal Assembly, Russia’s version of Congress. Coming on the eve of the 2018 Russian presidential election, the speech laid ou...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Last Monday, I wrote a lengthy post about why Congress should pass the pending, bipartisan bills to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired without good cause—and why the proffered consti...
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Amid the chaos of the last week, one of the most significant pieces of internet legislation of the last two decades went relatively unnoticed.
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In a post earlier this week, David Bosco speculated how John Bolton’s appointment as national security adviser might affect the Trump administration’s reaction if the International Criminal Court opens a...
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It has been another not-at-all slow week. On tap for today:
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Niall Ferguson argues in his new book, “The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Power,” that the powerful role of networks has often been overlooked.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May stressed the need for a “long-term [Western] response” to the security threat posed by Russia, Reuters reports. While speaking with senior U.K. cabinet officials on Tue...
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It was a cyberlaw-packed week in Washington. Congress jammed the CLOUD Act into the omnibus appropriations bill, and boom, just like that, it’s law. Say goodbye to the Microsoft Ireland case just argued ...
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The Last Days of the Iran Deal?
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These days, stories about the use of facial recognition software (FRS) are legion. One of us wrote in January about the Chinese government’s extensive use of FRS. Just this month, U.S. Customs and Border...
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On March 15, the Treasury Department issued its first sanctions under a sweeping law signed by President Trump last August. The department both reiterated previous U.S. sanctions against two Russian inte...
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The collapse of the Islamic State’s caliphate and the military campaign that drove the group underground is a win for the Trump administration, the United States and the world as a whole. Even by the sta...
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On Monday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published the following directive and accompanying memo regarding the Intelligence Community's policies for protecting privacy and civil lib...
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As President Trump intensifies his attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, his critics intensify their calls on Congress to legislate statutory removal protections limiting the president’s and Justice...
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In response to the Kremlin’s attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on British soil, President Trump expelled 60 Russians from the U.S. and closed the Russian consu...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on April 5, when Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes will interview Tim Maurer about his new book, “Cyber Mer...
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What exactly should be covered in a course on the legal and policy aspects of cybersecurity?
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Finally, Mark Zuckerberg has spoken. The short version of his response? “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you.” But Zuckerberg is wrong. The C...
