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Over the past few weeks, the Justice Department has continued to tie up loose ends in the realm of criminal terrorism prosecutions.
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In episode 129, Alan Cohn and I dive deep on the Government Oversight Committee’s predictably depressing and unpredictably entertaining report on the OPM hack. Cheeky Chinese hackers register their contr...
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How much medical history should presidential candidates disclose? Activists launch a new campaign to pardon Edward Snowden, just in time for the launch of a biopic on the world’s most famous leaker. And ...
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Readers will recall last spring's battle over the San Bernardino iPhone. The FBI had Syed Farook's work phone, but it was locked, with security protections including a ten-tries-and-you're-out on PIN att...
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Brexit minister David Davis’s address in Parliament last Monday on the state of Brexecution met mixed reviews.
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An astonishingly bad piece appeared in Politico this week under an admittedly arresting headline: “The Case Against James Comey: Not Since Hoover Has an FBI Director Shown Such a Lack of Accountability.”
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The Syrian ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia remains largely intact as residents
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I have signed on to the letter asking President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden that was released today. I know this will be an unpopular position among many of my former colleagues in the national securi...
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Michael Specter and the “Keys Under Doormats” (KUD) group have an interesting post, entitled “Apple's Cloud Key Vault, Exceptional Access, and False Equivalences” responding to my earlier post on Apple’s...
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Steve Vladeck and I disagreed about the virtues and vices of the original JASTA bill. But we agree that the version of JASTA now on its way to the President’s desk—which reflects dramatic changes introd...
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A major event celebrating ten years of the Justice Department's National Security Division is taking place at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Here's the livestream:
Here's how CSI...
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A nationwide ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia is mostly holding across Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it has not recorded a civilian death from fighting in...
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What to expect from the new ceasefire in Syria.
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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It’s Friday, we’re wrapping up the first week back in Al Nashiri, and al-Nashiri himself is back in the courtroom. After some characteristically Guantanamo housekeeping—with only one courtroom, Judge Spa...
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Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determin...
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From our friends at CYBERCOM:
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Over the past eleven months, 42,405 Central American unaccompanied children under the age of eighteen have been picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol, in addition to another 61,575 families. That’s on top ...
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Two years ago, the Obama Administration announced its decision to allow a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to lapse. The practical implicaiton of that decisio...