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Behnam Said comes on the show to talk about nasheeds. Some of the topics covered include:
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In his May 2013 speech at National Defense University, President Obama called for new ways to think about drones and the United States’ policy on using these systems in counterterrorism operations. Now, ...
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To say that Apple has great marketing would be quite an understatement. Apple is widely recognized as having one of the most effective marketing and PR operations in their—or perhaps any—industry. Storie...
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Last Thursday’s hearing by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs made clear that the Republicans in Congress are still steaming about the Obama administration’s narrowing of Congress’s recent restrictio...
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A Review of Adam Segal's The Hacked World Order (PublicAffairs, 2016).
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In a recent February 25 hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI Director Comey said two things.
At 36:45 in the CSPAN video, he says that
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Editor's Note: What if most terrorism isn’t really terrorism? In past decades, much of what we call terrorism today would have been seen as insurgent violence, revolutionary war, or civil war: a group li...
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The Syria War, says Aaron David Miller, the distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, is "Not Obama’s Fault.” Instead, the war is primarily the work of Bashar Al-Assad, the presid...
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This piece originally appeared on the Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy but its themes are so pertinent to Lawfare readers that I've submitted it to Lawfare as well.
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A couple of weeks ago, I thought it worth calling to reader's attention the threat assessment done by the Norwegian Police Security Service (more or less Norway's MI-5). Today, we have news from the Nor...
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This week, the battle between the FBI and Apple in a California court spilled into the broader public debate on encryption and lawful access.
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Ahead of Super Tuesday, the 10th GOP presidential debate took place Thursday in Houston, TX. The debate featured the five remaining Republican presidetial candidates Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Ma...
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Well, we’ve had a busy week here at Lawfare. Let's start with Apple.
On Sunday, FBI Director James Comey asserted that the FBI could not look the survivors of the San Bernardino terrorist attack in the ...
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Yesterday, Apple filed a motion to vacate a court order compelling the tech company to assist the U.S. government in unlocking an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
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Do you need to get up to speed on the latest developments in the Apple vs FBI iPhone dispute, but either lack the time to read the brief Apple filed yesterday or the context to decode it? I’m here to he...
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Following months of speculation, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela last week announced their intention to freeze oil production at existing (high) levels in an attempt to stabilize the oil market.
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Director James Comey claims that the FBI is simply carrying out a diligent investigation in San Bernardino. Put bluntly, I doubt this for two reasons. First, the FBI and public already has enough knowled...
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In the social media era, there have been a number of terrorist attacks in America that, at least in part, could be attributed to “self-radicalization.” Self-radicalization refers to the phenomenon wherei...