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Just this morning, I was thinking that things have been rather quiet with respect to media coverage of U.S. operations against AQ and AQ affiliates in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Well...
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That is the title of a new book edited by Curtis Bradley. The book’s description:
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Legislators in France are watching closely the fight between Apple and the FBI, but, in the meantime, the French National Assembly has amended a pending counterterrorism bill to impose heavy penalties on...
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Last month, I was asked to participate in a genuinely unusual radio experiment: a trans-Atlantic town hall meeting hosted by PRI's America Abroad simultaenously in Austin Texas and Berlin. The subject wa...
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Editor's Note: Most national security bureaucracies regularly go through time-consuming reviews and strategic planning exercises. Are these efforts valuable? Jordan Tama of American University argues tha...
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By most accounts, this was not a good week for America. On Thursday evening, our political process hit an all-time low.
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This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Wilson Center takes on the Apple v. FBI controversy in a panel entitled “Will They or Won’t They? Understanding the Encryption Debate.”
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Apple's general counsel sounds suspiciously like James Comey when he talks about a small messaging app that competes with his own product.
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Just how many ISIS detainees have been in U.S. military custody over the past year? As I noted earlier this week, the first publicly-known instance arose last summer with the capture and detention of Um...
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This week, El Salvador became the 124th member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). As it joined the court, the Salvadoran government also became the 28th country to ratify the Rome Statute amendme...
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In the latest news out of North Korea, Kim Jong-un ordered his military to have its nuclear warheads deployed and ready to be launched at any moment.
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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At the risk of slightly immodest behavior, I thought blog readers might be interested in knowing about the release of my new video course: "The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You" from The Gr...
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Earlier this week, Shane Reeves and Winston Williams published a thoughtful call for a national-security lawyer to be appointed to the Supreme Court. I certainly have no interest in degrading the career ...
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On March 2, 2016, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously passed Resolution 2270, which expands the scope of existing sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Th...
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A New York magistrate judge says the government can’t force Apple to help the FBI extract information from an iPhone. Forty percent of analysts at the U.S. military’s Central Command say the “integrity” ...
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The other day, I received a letter from Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. It came in the form of an unadorned Microsoft Word file called "wittes.docx." It did not bear President Ilves's John Hanco...