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In response to a FOIA request from the ACLU, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice released FISA Amendments Act Section 702 documents on August 23. Below, we s...
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President Trump’s lawyers argue that he didn’t obstruct justice when he fired James Comey. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley explains how the US could leave the Iran nuclear deal. And the Homeland Security Depar...
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A review of Arundhati Roy's novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Knopf, 2017).
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Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a U.S. proposal to cut off fuel supplies to North Korea in a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday, according to the New York Times. Putin...
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
One of the most important revelations following the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden wa...
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Mahmoud Abbas will be remembered as a transformative figure in Palestinian politics. He was a driving force in reaching the Oslo Accords and in standing up the Palestinian Authority, and has overseen the...
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
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In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck spend time with three legal topics (before spiraling off into some ill-informed commentary on the college football season). First, building off a report...
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In Episode 177, fresh from hiatus, we try to summarize the most interesting cyber stories to break in August. Paul Rosenzweig kicks things off with the Shunning of Kaspersky. I argue that the most signi...
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I am very pleased to share this news: An annual prize for outstanding national security law scholarship has been established in the name of our colleague Mike Lewis, who passed away in 2015.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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North Korea tested its most power nuclear weapon to date on Sunday, the New York Times reported. Although experts questioned North Korea’s claim that it had set off a hydrogen bomb, the blast produced a ...
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
Tim Edgar’s new book, "Beyond Snowden," prompts a number of reflections. One virtue of a book like this by a knowledgeable insid...
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I am honored that Lawfare is using my new book, "Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA" as the starting point for a conversation on the future of surveillance refo...
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On Friday evening, the President nominated Jennifer Newstead to be the next Legal Adviser of the State Department.
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Our electoral infrastructure consists of two distinct pieces (or so it seems to me): a broader public context in which elections occur and a narrower system of election management. To date, almost everyt...
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IAEA Verifies Iran’s Compliance with Nuclear Deal
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One hundred years ago today—on September 5, 1917—Charles Evans Hughes famously argued that “the power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.” In a recent Columbia Law Review article, I detail...