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This week, Herb Lin and I are giving a joint talk about the suit-hoodie divide, and whether relations between Washington and Silicon Valley are getting worse (I think the answer is yes). Part of the prob...
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Three years ago today, The Guardian published the first story based on the huge archive of documents that that Edward Snowden stole from the National Security Agency while working as an NSA contractor. ...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on June 15, when Ben interviews Fred Kaplan about his new book, Dark Territory: The Secret History of ...
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The forthcoming arbitral award in the dispute between the Philippines and China has become one of the most anticipated international judicial decisions in recent history, even dominating discussion at th...
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Editor's Note: Data should drive decision-making – the real question is how much should it do so? As big data and data analytics expand, it is tempting to assume they can solve many of the problems forei...
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I’ve read the Vice News report based on the FOIA-released documents three times now, and still do not see within it support for the headline, “Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Conc...
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This week, the Brookings Institution held an event on a new Brookings report on implementation of the Iran Deal:
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Any law students out there who want to work on a legal research project on the powers of the presidency? [Sorry, no pay involved.]
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The 9/11 Military Commissions continued down at Guantanamo Bay this week. Susan Hennessey shared Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins’ statements in advance of the hearing. Clara Spera provided coverage of the ...
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Dear Ed:
By any chance do you have any friends inside the IRS?
You see, it seems to me that the major part of Donald Trump's mystique is his appearance of success. Nothing can really persuade his supp...
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“For the first time in the two years since the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, proclaimed the existence of an ‘Islamic caliphate’ straddling Syria and Iraq, the jihadi group is at real ris...
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CENTCOM has just released a summary of publicly-acknowledged airstrikes conducted against AQAP targets in Yemen over the first five months of 2016. The list includes three strikes from February and Marc...
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I read with great interest Paul’s recent post, relaying the thoughts of his friend, a longtime government lawyer now working on cyber issues in the private sector. The post includes lots of thoughtful c...
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Session Three
Following the two morning sessions, Col. Pohl called the commission back to order after a lengthy Memorial Day lunch.
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On May 7, 2016, Colonel Steve Warren, U.S. Army, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), conducted a question and answer session using the social media platform Reddit. During this session, C...
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Reuters is reporting that Israeli officials are speaking with the prosector of the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding its preliminary examination in Palestine. Israel is not an ICC member and h...
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We have previously written about why we think JASTA—the bill
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Maybe Wall Street holds the key to stopping cyber attacks. That's the fascinating idea behind the concept of "cyber bonds" -- something new to me. Here's the provacative summary from the Wired article ...
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The October 2015 bombing of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan has amplified a long-simmering discussion regarding the ability of the American military to objectively condu...
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A "must read" article from Nolan Peterson. It begins:
SINJAR, Iraq—Evil doesn’t always reveal itself through goose-stepping armies or skyscrapers collapsing on a clear autumn day.
Sometimes, it’s on...