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Cody Poplin linked us to President Obama’s announcement nominating Merrick Garland to SCOTUS. Following the announcement, Benjamin Wittes praised Merrick Garland’s nomination and highlighted his national...
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I was very skeptical about last September’s US-China “agreement” in which China pledged that it would not “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secre...
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Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted fugitive behind the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris last November, was arrested today after a shootout with police in Brussels. Media reports indicate that Abde...
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While Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sudden decision to withdraw troops from Syria caught many by surprise, it was not the only dramatic development in Syria this week. Syria’s Kurds had a surprise o...
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A PRC surveillance vessel crusies next to Japan Coast Guard patrol ships near the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands (Photo: Kyodo)
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President Obama nominates national security lawyer Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. An American ISIS defector is in Kurdish custody. And major Web sites have been delivering malware to their readers...
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IDOMENI, Greece—“If we stay here like this we’re going to start eating each other’s flesh” says Um Sabry, a Syrian woman from Afrin.
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Charlie Savage’s piece on the legal basis for the March 5 U.S. strike against an al Shabaab training camp, which allegedly killed 150 fighters, raises the intriguing question of whether the AUMF has been...
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Editor's Note: This article originally appears on Markaz.
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Earlier this year, when the FBI asked Apple for assistance accessing the contents of an iPhone, Apple asked for the request to issued under seal. This is the standard practice in such cases – indeed, we...
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Today, Secretary of State John Kerry determined that the Islamic State’s actions against Yazidis and other minority groups in Iraq and Syria constitute a genocide.
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If you are planning to travel to Europe this summer .... your trip may be harder than you thought. You have the US Congress to thank.
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The cyber domain covers the entire globe. Given its breadth the challenge in finding universal norms of behavior is great -- it requires cross-cultural and cross-geographic agreement amongst people with...
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I recently appeared on the Brown University Cybersecurity News Podcast to discuss bridging the lawyer and technology divide in the debate between Apple and the FBI. Interested Lawfare readers can listen ...
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Alan Cohn and Jason Weinstein talk to Robin Weisman and Peter Van Valkenburgh from the Coin Center.
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The war in Syria is a ruthless representation of regional changes that have taken place in the Middle East in recent years. At stake is a lot more than the future of Syria. The struggle for Syria is ess...
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Over at Time I have an essay on the Garland nomination. Following on a point Ben made yesterday, I argue:
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David Ignatius of the Washington Post had a column this week purporting to describe the danger of a U.S.-China conflict in the South China Sea. But its real value is its reporting on the views of differe...
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President Obama announced his nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland as the nation’s 113th Supreme Court justice, the New York Times reports.
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Ben Wittes makes a strong case for Merrick Garland’s impressive record and impeccable qualifications, including his national security expertise. I look forward to reading more about him.