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Video of the April 26 conference at the Fordham Law School Center on National Security on "Hindsight: Reflections On 15 Years of the War on Terror."
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A United States Navy SEAL was killed today after Islamic State militants broke through the front line of Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq. The Washington Post writes that the incident highlights...
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I have debated with myself whether or not to post this piece on Lawfare, which maintains a strictly non-partisan editorial policy and whose readership relies on the website for high-level substantive nat...
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Last Tuesday, I enjoyed a lively discussion on “Reconciling Liberty and Security” at a conference headlined, “Hindsight: Fifteen Years of the War on Terror” at Fordham Law School’s Center for National S...
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As we explore how best to use data analytics to provide value for important social functions like healthcare, education, transportation and law enforcement, many people believe that the use of the data w...
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Nextgov reports that the State Department has put out a request for information for a wireless intrustion detection system that the story describes as an “Internet of Things-style surveillance network.”
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Last week, full-scale war essentially resumed in Aleppo, but Secretary of State John Kerry indicated today that participants are closer to extending the ceasefire in Syria to include Aleppo. Reuters repo...
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On April 14, in partnership with the Center For Democracy and Technology, Intel Security, and the Hoover Institution, we held a lunch event entitled, “Using Data To Secure Networks: Optimizing Individual...
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The U.S. military Central Command (Centcom) report on the attack on the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at Kunduz, Afghanistan demonstrates how a perfect storm of mistakes and mishaps can lead to...
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The next in our series of Hoover Book Soirees will take place at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office on May 11, when Jack interviews H. Jefferson Powell about his new book, Targeting Americans: Th...
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Editor's Note: Helping other countries' militaries and intelligence services is a vital part of whatever we're calling the war on terrorism these days. These programs, however, are often seen as one of t...
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Earlier this month, Lawfare held a lunch event in partnership with Intel Security, the Hoover Institution, and the Center for Democracy and Technology on whether Big Data analytics are merely a privacy t...
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Let's start with encryption.
Matt Tait provided an approach to FBI Director James Comey’s technical challenge in the “going dark” debate.
Benjamin Wittes compared encryption to a living will and said t...
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This morning, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) released its formal report of investigation into the airstrike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Of note in the report...
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Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford faced some skepticism on Capitol Hill as they attempted to make the case that President Obama’s strateg...
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Back in the Fall of 2014, a little noticed contactual battle surfaced some significant security concerns with the management of the American telephone system. It involved the local-number-portability ad...
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The tension between a Nation-state’s need to detect and interdict threats to life, safety and property inevitably conflict with the privacy interests of its individual citizens and private sector entitie...
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Internal Divisions Land ASEAN in Troubled Waters
Flag of ASEAN member states in Brunei's Prime Minister Office Building (Photo: The Straits Times)
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At least 38 civilians were killed and dozens more were injured in a eruption of violence throughout Aleppo.