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As noted by Susan last week, a draft of the Feinstein-Burr encryption bill has been leaked to the press. The bill is, predictably, being panned by the tech community. One reason for the derision is the...
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To paraphrase Mick Jagger—you can’t always get the international law argument you want, but sometimes, you get (some of) what you need. Recently, State Department Legal Adviser Brian Egan addressed the A...
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We begin today in Yemen, where Reuters reports that “a truce aimed at ending more than a year of war in Yemen appeared to be largely holding on Monday,” even though some residents said fighting remained ...
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Marty Lederman says in response to my posts that the big difference between the Bush and Obama preemption doctrines was that the Bush Administration “argued that international law permits the United Stat...
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Since 9/11, the United States has furnished Pakistan with some $33 billion dollars in economics assistance, foreign military sales, and lucrative “reimbursements” under the coalition support funds (CSF) ...
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Along with the Center for Democracy and Technology, Intel Security, and the Hoover Institution in Washington, Lawfare is pleased to invite you to join us for a lively debate on "Using Data to Secure Netw...
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The court fight between Apple and FBI over access to a terrorist iPhone is just the latest chapter in the long-running tension between security professionals trying to get access to information and commu...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, April 11th at 1 pm: The Center for Strategic and International Studies will host Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness B...
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Editor's Note: Despite its successful terrorist attacks in Europe, the Islamic State is being hit hard in Iraq. Indeed, Iraqi forces and their U.S. and coalition allies are gearing up to retake Mosul, Ir...
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This week on the podcast, we welcome Eric Schwartz, the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Schwartz previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of S...
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Last Friday, the new State Department Legal Adviser, Brian Egan, gave a speech on “International Law, Legal Diplomacy, and the Counter-ISIL Campaign” at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) a...
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Benjamin Wittes linked to State Department Legal Adviser Brian Egan’s speech at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law.
Ashley Deeks responded to his speech, highlighting Egan’s...
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On March 30, President François Hollande announced that he was abandoning a constitutional amendment that would have enshrined state of emergency powers and stripped French citizenship from convicted ter...
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Daniel Bethlehem says that my claim that the Obama administration has embraced the Bush doctrine of preemption for anticipatory self-defense “misses an essential element.” The essential element I misse...
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The Hill has obtained a draft of Senators Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr's much-discussed and long-awaited encryption bill, entitled the "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016." The bill is designe...
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As the U.S. government and policymaking community continues to debate how to respond to China’s actions in the South China Sea, it is worth stepping back a moment to look at the emerging dispute from Chi...
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The hugely popular messaging system Whatsapp is now encrypting everything for a billion people. The financial shenanigans of the rich and powerful are laid bare in the Panama Papers, the biggest leak of ...