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Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, NSA director Adm. Mike Rogers admitted that President Trump has not formally asked him how to defeat Russia’s ongoing attempts to hack Am...
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Thus far, my argument with former federal prosecutor and National Review columnist Andrew C. McCarthy has been about whether and how the president can be held to account for obstruction of justice. Havin...
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The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday morning in United States v. Microsoft Corp.—a case that readers will by now be familiar with. (See a fantastic summary of Lawfare coverage here).
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It has been almost seven years since unrest in Syria began and spiraled into a civil war that has killed perhaps 500,000 people and displaced millions more. The war and associated diplomacy offer much to...
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The Senate Committee on Armed Services is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on "United States Cyber Command." The committee will hear testimony from Adm. Michael Rogers, commander of U.S. Cy...
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Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron have painted a truly depressing picture of a future in which faked video and audio cannot be distinguished from the real thing. And I think they are right to be depresse...
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in United States v. Microsoft Corp., a case that will carry broad consequences for our digital lives. The issue to be resolved is whether a warrant o...
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Today’s news roundup begins with Maury Shenk and Brian Egan offering their views about the Supreme Court oral argument in the Microsoft-Ireland case. We highlight some of the questions that may tip the J...
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On Feb. 16, the U.S.
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Earlier this month, the Second Circuit issued a decision in Linde v. Arab Bank vacating a $100 million judgment against Arab Bank, following a jury verdict that found the bank liable under the Antiterror...
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Microsoft on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. At issue in the case is whether Microsoft, an American company, must comply with a warran...
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If you have paid any attention to the topic of military commissions over the past sixteen years, you do not need me to tell you of the troubles they’ve faced. Whatever their merits in theory (and I do th...
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A central feature of U.S.-China cyber diplomacy has been Washington’s effort to persuade Beijing to acknowledge and enforce a norm against state-sponsored commercial cyber theft. After years of private d...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, Feb. 26 at 2:00 p.m.: The Hudson Institute will host an event on “Taking Stock of Trump’s Foreign Policy After Year One.” Tod Lindberg w...
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February has been a particularly bad month in a bad two years for Facebook. Following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians and three organizations in connection with running a disin...
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For decades the theft of private individuals’ data has been treated as an annoyance. Activist state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission have pursued cases, but U.S. laws fail to treat thef...
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In recent years, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in the concept of both departmentalism and its obverse, judicial supremacy.
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Editor’s Note: The crisis between Qatar and its neighbors drags on, exacerbating regional instability and posing problems for U.S. policymakers. While many analysts have focused on the security and forei...
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Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released their rebuttal to the memo on alleged surveillance abuses prepared by Chairman Devin Nunes. The rebuttal memo is available in full below.
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Vasily Maklakov was a political reformer in pre-revolution Russia who offered his country an alternative to radicalism that it chose to forego. This week, I speak to Judge Stephen Williams of the D.C. Ci...