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Yesterday, a civil action was filed in the D.C. federal district court by Larry Klayman, of Freedom Watch, against Democratic Party presidential nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mr. Klayman represents: P...
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As an American lawyer traveling in the Middle East, at the border between Israel and the West Bank, I can’t help but focus on the big, red sign that says, “This Road leads to Area ‘A’ Under The Palestini...
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Here is the text of a statement I prepared and signed along with 49 other former national security officials who have worked closely with Republican Presidents from Nixon to George W. Bush stating that D...
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At least 70 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded on Monday after a suicide bomber in Pakistan targeted a hospital in Quetta. The crow
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I have now read through the newly-declassified PPG on direct actions, the so-called "Playbook" for drone strikes from May 2013.
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As Dan Wallach (a Computer Science professor at Rice and a world-recognized expert on voting systems) eloquently put it, election security is a national security issue. The computer security field has in...
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A few days at the beach see a number of interesting (and as yet unremarked in Lawfare) cyber items:
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, August 8th at 5:30pm: The Young Professionals in International Affairs and the Osgood Center for International Studies will host a Disc...
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At a time when the Republican Party has fractured on virtually every front, moments of unity are rare. One such opportunity appeared last week courtesy of a Wall Street Journal story that disclosed how t...
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Editor's Note: The Islamic State emerged as social media was taking off around the globe, and endless news stories and pundit commentary discusses its skill at mastering this new form of communication. W...
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Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan came to the Brookings Institution on July 13th for a conversation with Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel on “CIA’s strategy in the face of emer...
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Nicholas Weaver offered political campaigns a few suggestions for how they can enhance their resilience to a cyberattack.
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This document was released yesterday. I haven't read it yet, but it is entitled "Procedures for Approving Direct Action Against Terrorist Targets Located Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hos...
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In a New York Times editorial, former acting and deputy director of the CIA Michael J. Morell lambasts Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency and a “threat to national security.” Morell accuses Trump o...
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Shortly after we released our sextortion reports back in May, Sen. Barbara Boxer wrote a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch seeking data on the scope and magnitude of the problem: "court records sh...
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As a tumultuous week for the Trump campaign draws to a close, a new Fox News poll released Wednesday evening shows Hillary Clinton with a ten-point lead over her Republican rival.
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Last month, the Islamic State’s official media outlet, al-Furqān, released its first video in over a year, entitled, “The Structure of the Khilafah.” Al-Furqān is known for producing the group’s most hor...
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Josh Rogin of the Washington Post reports that “President Obama has decided to seek a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would call for an end to nuclear testing, a move that leading law...
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Over drinks the other evening, I played a parlor game with several of my companions: I asked each to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how nervous he or she was about a Donald Trump presidency, figuring into th...
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“Lawful hacking” is an interesting and potentially very useful future path for law enforcement and the intelligence community. But lawyers and policymakers rushing to address potential problems are getti...