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For every 100,000 citizens in 2015, 103 were brutally murdered in El Salvador, 57 slaughtered in Honduras, 30 killed in Guatemala, and 13 murdered in Mexico. These countries racked up a total of more tha...
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Hot on the heels of the DNC hack, the White House today released Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-41: United States Cyber Incident Coordination.
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David Sanger and Eric Schmitt report this morning that American intelligence officials “now have ‘high confidence’ that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the Democr...
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How fancy is your bear?
You can't make this stuff up. The Russian government hacks the Democratic National Committee. Is Moscow trying to swing the election for Donald Trump? Will it work or backfire?
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In the two weeks that have passed since the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) arbitral tribunal issued its award against China, no drastic actions have been taken by any of the key parties. Ch...
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Thursday’s open session of the trial of five men accused of plotting 9/11 begins with a testy exchange between Judge Pohl and and one of the accused, Walid Bin Attash, who refuses several instructions to...
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The Kremlin has denied accusations that it hacked the Democratic National Committee’s emails in order to interfere with the U.S. presidential election in favor of Republican nominee Donald Trump, dismiss...
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We have a new piece in The Washington Quarterly, titled “The Legal Legacy of Light-Footprint Warfare.” President Obama’s approach to military intervention has generally emphasized stealthy and often long...
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Earlier today I wrote the following tweets, collected here in one place, in reaction to the DNC hack.
1/ In assessing the DNC hack, remember that USG is no innocent when it comes to infiltrating foreig...
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Last Friday, the Department of Defense released an update to the 2015 Law of War Manual. According to Charlie Savage of the New York Times, the changes mainly center on the section related to the treatme...
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At Slate I have a discussion about the DNC hack with Isaac Chotiner. A flavor:
Is the election aspect of this hack unique?
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In an unusual campaign season punctuated by scandals and high unfavorability numbers for both leading candidates, the latest turn might just be the most shocking.
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Here’s an idea for a marriage of man and institution: Take a man who openly advocates criminal activity by American forces, who promises retaliation against his political enemies and against media that c...
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As a matter of established legal precedent, the police can compel someone to provide their fingerprint onto a fingerprint reader. Equally well-established is that exigent circumstances—including "the nee...
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Over the weekend, there was a crescendo of reports regarding how Russia may be attempting to influence the US presidential election. Jack provided analysis this morning, including links to several of tho...
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Potentially unpleasant news for Jim Comey: We need you to intervene in the 2016 election again.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, July 25th at 2pm: The Turkish Heritage Foundation will hold a teleconference on Democracy Under Attack in Turkey. Michael Reynolds, Josh...
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David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth of the NYT summarize the evidence of a Russia-based hack of the DNC emails:
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A few weeks ago, we noted the release of a new paper on sextortion by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center.
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Editor's Note: The Middle East and Iraq and Syria in particular have long enjoyed religious diversity, with a range of Muslim and non-Muslim groups, including some of the world’s oldest Christian communi...