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BYU law professor Eric Talbot Jensen has a new article posted to SSRN (appearing in Brigham Young University Law Review) titled, "Presidential Pronouncements of Customary International Law as an Alternat...
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FBI Director James Comey testified in front of the House Oversight and Governance Reform Committee for nearly five hours today. Under scathing and often incredulous questioning by House Republicans, Come...
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Edward Snowden criticizes Russia’s mass surveillance law, and a Russian official retaliates by outing him ‒ as a Russian intelligence source. Silent Circle, the phone company that built its marketing on ...
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Earlier today, State Department Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure Lee S. Wolosky and his Defense Department counterpart Paul M. Lewis testified before the the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding...
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Iraq’s Health Ministry disclosed that the death toll from a suicide bombing in Baghdad this weekend has reached 292. The Islamic State took credit for the attack, which came just days after Iraqi securit...
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Last week I noted that the foreign ministries of Russia and China announced plans to issue a joint statement on the "promotion of international law" during the June 25, 2016 visit of President Vladimir P...
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At Time.com I speculate about why FBI Director Comey took the unusual step of publicly summarizing the nature and conclusions of the Clinton email investigation, and then announcing the FBI’s recommendat...
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Earlier today, The Iraq Inquiry, a highly-anticipated inquiry into the United Kingdom’s role in the Iraq War, delivered a damning verdict of the government’s decision under then-Prime Minister Tony Blair...
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The Nashiri saga has picked up steadily in recent weeks. We now know that in response to last June’s DC Circuit opinion alerting the Administration to constitutional Appointments Clause concerns regardin...
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The next round of surveillance reform is a time for the United States to go big – and to go global. We should get out of our defensive crouch and show the world how to balance robust intell...
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After seven years of investigation, the official inquiry regarding Britain’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq has finally been published. The report is scathing in its conclusion that “Britain’s decis...
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A suicide bombing from a car in a crowded shopping district rocked Baghdad early Sunday, killing over 175 people, wounding 200 and marking the deadliest single bombing ever in Iraq. Calls for security fo...
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FBI Director Jim Comey announced that the FBI has concluded its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and is recommending that the Department of Justice not pursue any charge...
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While everyone is talking about Hillary and her emails, I thought I'd share a couple of items:
The Dark Web: We finally have a good map of the Dark Web. Turns out it is surprisingly inter-connected, a...
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The first notable thing in FBI Director Jim Comey's statement on the Clinton email flap is that he issued it at all. Normally, the FBI does not issue reports on its investigative findings separate from J...
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This morning, FBI director James Comey said the FBI is recommending no charges against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president, for her use of a personal email server whil...
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As the release of the South China Sea arbitration tribunal’s award on July 12 nears, China has apparently gone into “propaganda overdrive” to defend its position that the tribunal lacks jurisdiction. By ...
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Happy Independence Day to Americans everywhere! My wife and I are on vacation in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains of California, a part of it called the Owens Valley (which, His Serenity notes in pas...