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UN Security Council members are holding an informal meeting today on protecting Palestinian civilians from war crimes. Security Council Report offers this background on the session:
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Last night, Egyptian authorities arrested and detained Malek Adly, a prominent human rights lawyer who, as this piece was written, was being investigated by police. He is accused of inciting the protests...
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Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from testimony offered before the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.
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The Middle East's largest construction firm, the Saudi Binladen Group, is in trouble. With the Saudi economy depressed due to low oil prices, the Binladen Group islaying off tens of thousands of workers....
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Sino-Japanese Summit Seeks to Restart Troubled Relationship
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Next Wednesday, May 11, Brookings is holding an online event to release a pair of papers on which I and a team of Lawfare folks have spent a great deal of time over the last several months. The subject i...
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One of the great technological advances of our time is the ability to put vast amounts of information to use for expanding scientific knowledge, making enterprises more efficient, increasing consumer con...
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A few months ago, Zoe Bedell and I wrote a series of posts about Twitter and potential liability
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As I explained in a New York Times op-ed today, Captain Nathan Smith has gone to court for a declaratory judgment on the legality of President Obama’s undeclared war against the Islamic State. While I en...
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One issue that arose during the recent Hoover panel on protecting privacy with big data related to a frequently posed question: Why do we, as a society, appear to object more strenuously to the governmen...
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Donald Trump becomes the presumptive Republican nominee for president after an overwhelming primary victory in Indiana. Iraq and Syria are in meltdown; why is this time any worse? And the Supreme Court ...
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Recently, the Obama Administration announced that it will soon release a redacted version of its Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) governing the use of force in counterterrorism operations outside the U...
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Petty Officer First Class Charles Keating IV was identified by a family member as the Navy SEAL who was killed during an Islamic State assault in Iraq. Speaking on Keating's death, the White House reaffi...
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I have an article in the May issue of the Washington Diplomat, the magazine for the diplomatic community, entitled "Legal Minefield: Lawsuits Force Foreign Governments to Navigate U.S. Court System" that...
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Our guest for episode 114 is General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA; he also confirms that he personally wrote every word of his fine book, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence ...
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Yesterday, Carrie Cordero opened her piece urging voters to reject Donald Trump by noting that "Benjamin Wittes assures me that he is prepared to publish the serious national security case for voting Tru...
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Charlie Savage reports that Captain Nathan Michael Smith, an army intelligence officer deployed in Kuwait, has brought a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s interpretive extension of the 2001 AUMF in r...
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During the recent panel event at the Hoover Institution on using data to protect privacy, I had an interesting exchange with Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law, which I’ve been mulling over ever since.