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Documents the FBI creates when it processes a FOIA request can be withheld from future FOIA requests in certain sensitive cases, D.C. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled on Monday.
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While transnational cybercrime has played a part in the U.S-China relationship for some time, the issue assumed a high profile during the September 2015 U.S.-China summit discussions that led to the U.S....
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We are happy to report that Episode 7 of the National Security Law Podcast ("The Less Prep the Better") has just gone live. In about 42 minutes, we discuss:
- the Trump allegation about being wiretappe...
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After three months away, pretrial hearings in the USS Cole case are set to resume, with military judge Air Force Colonel Vance Spath calling the session to order. The judge notes those who are present, i...
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Editor's Note: This post contains the text of a speech that former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is delivering this hour at the Oxford Union, March 8, 2017.
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Thank you for that introdu...
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As the world sifts through the trove of CIA documents released yesterday by Wikileaks, the New York Times tells us that the revelations have ruptured the fragile trust between the government and Silicon ...
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A weekend New York Times story by David Sanger and William Broad disclosed U.S. cyber-operations against the North Korean ballistic missile program.
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On Monday, the New York Police Department agreed to a revised class action settlement that it hopes will put to rest litigation surrounding the Department’s surveillance of Muslims.
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Nick Weaver wins the prize for rapid response, but a few additional observations might be helpful.
First, I echo Nick’s observation that it’s hardly a surprise that the CIA has a bunch of its own hackin...
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Yesterday morning, President Trump appears to have been watching Fox & Friends when he saw a troubling statistic: 122 former Guantánamo detainees have re-engaged in terrorism after their release. So the ...
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This evening, President Trump nominated Courtney Elwood to be CIA General Counsel and John Sullivan to be DoD General Counsel. These are excellent appointments and good news for the national security la...
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With all eyes focused on the new executive order, the Trump Administration may have snuck in the beginnings of another controversial policy shift severely restricting immigration to the United States.
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Wikileaks has released a large collection of CIA documents reportedly describing software tools used by the agency to hack a wide variety of devices and platforms, the New York Times reports. The organiz...
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It is now almost Lawfare tradition that when interesting classified technical documents are dumped, I take advantage of my lack of security clearance to do an initial analysis. (I’ll leave for another da...
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The Chinese government last week released a new, wide-ranging strategy document (in English and Chinese) for international cooperation on cyberspace issues.
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In this episode, Matt Tait, aka @PwnAllTheThings, takes us on a tour of Russia’s cyberoperations. Ever wonder why there are three big Russian intel agencies but only two that have nicknames in cybersecur...
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Representative Tom Graves (R-GA) recently released a discussion draft of a bill that would create a defense to liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) (18 USC 1030) f
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This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing for Rod Rosenstein, President Trump's nominee for Deputy Attorney General, and Rachel Brand, President Trump's nominee as Associate Attor...
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The United States is Escalating One of Its Wars in Yemen
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Last week, Chinese media reported that the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has promulgated a summer fishing moratorium that includes many parts of the South China Sea.