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President-elect Donald Trump continued to attack the intelligence community in tweets last night and early this morning, backing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s assertion that Russia was not involved ...
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Department of Justice Dismantles International Criminal Cyber Infrastructure
On December 5th, the Department of Justice, alongside numerous other domestic, foreign, and international agencies, announced...
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We start 2017 the way we ended 2016, mocking the left/lib bias of stories about intercept law. Remember the European Court of Justice decision that undermined the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Act and s...
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The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare is the most comprehensive and thoughtful work to date on the applicability of existing international law to cyber warfare.
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for the New Year’s shooting in an Istanbul nightclub, which killed at least 39 people, The New York Times reports.
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New Syria Ceasefire Holding for Now
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Who is the enemy in American counterterrorism? Is it the Islamic State, the broader jihadist movement, or a set of ideas about the role of religious and politics, often labeled “radical Islam?”
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm on Monday, January 9, when Jack will interview Jameel Jaffer on his new book The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing...
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My recent post on the top-side briefing in Hernandez v. Mesa, the Fourth Amendment cross-border shooting case pending at the Supreme Court, struck a nerve with my friend Steve Vladeck, who is one of the ...
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Data is a "magic material" that "is becoming the fuel for innovation,” says former European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes. But getting this “magic material” out of the EU is a complicated busin...
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A little-noticed bill to amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) passed both houses of Congress in December and was signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 16, 2016.
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A variety of recent reports have noted complaints that the sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the November election are insufficient. For example,
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Chinese aircraft carrier conducts groundbreaking naval exercises
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As expected, the Obama Administration today announced some of its response to Russian interference in the U.S. election.
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If you are one of the many readers who has donated to Lawfare this year, I want to take this opportunity to thank you. Your support means a great deal to us as we continue to grow. This year has seen ast...
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The other day, Quinta and I noted that counsel for Abd al Rahim Al-Nashiri had asked the court in his habeas case to have a copy of the Senate Intelligence Committee's interrogation report filed under se...
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As 2016 (finally) comes to an end, we’re looking back on an eventful year. This week, Lawfare will be rounding up coverage of some of our favorite national security topics of the past twelve months.
We’...
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As my friend Andrew Kent notes in his characteristically interesting post on the top-side briefing in Hernández v. Mesa (the cross-border shooting case in which the Supreme Court will hear oral argument ...
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As 2016 (finally) comes to an end, we’re looking back on an eventful year. This week, Lawfare will be rounding up coverage of some of our favorite national security topics of the past twelve months. Toda...