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Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School have released their latest report regarding autonomous weapon systems: Precedent for Preemption: The Ban on Blinding Las...
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Donald Trump and Ben Carson are playing a particularly nasty game in accusing Arab Americans of having celebrated the fall of the World Trade Center. They are fabulists in the malicious denigration of ot...
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Many in the world, myself included, sometimes wonder whether the discipline of homeland security actually coheres into a single area of expertise. After all, a successful homeland security leader in the...
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As authorities continue to search for Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam, Brussels remains on lockdown and at the highest terror alert level.
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Well, we can count one vote on the DC Circuit for upholding the Section 215 program against Larry Klayman's Fourth Amendment challenge.
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On November 20, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2249, condemning ISIS’s recent attacks and exhorting all states to prevent and suppress the group’s terrorist activities. The Resolution is in som...
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In 2013, in the early days of the Snowden leaks, Harvard Law School professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith reflected on the increase in NSA surveillance post 9/11. He wrote:
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Charles Lister comes back on the show for an in-depth discussion on jihadism in Syria. Some of the topics covered include:
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Join us at Intel on Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 from 5:00-6:30 pm for a discussion on the investments and policy framework necessary to close the existing gap in cybersecurity. The evening will begin wit...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Yesterday, French President François Hollande signed into law a bill that extends the state of emergency for three months and expands the government’s already broad police powers. Passed in haste, the la...
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Editor’s Note: For over a decade, the Islamic State and its predecessors focused almost exclusively on Iraq, Syria, and their neighbors. The downing of the Russian airplane over the Sinai Peninsula and e...
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At the last Hoover Book Soiree—and if you have not attended one yet, you really should—Charlie Savage, New York Times national security reporter and author of the newly released book Power Wars: Inside O...
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This week, Lawfare introduced Susan Hennessey as its new managing editor. Please join us in welcoming her (back) to the Lawfare team, and follow her on Twitter!
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Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali this morning, leaving at least 20 dead after a prolonged hostage situation. The attackers entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako between 7:00 and 7:30 am local tim...
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Tidal Waves and Tanker Trucks
The Islamic State’s money comes in significant part from energy. So if the world is going to take on ISIS in a serious way, it’s going to have to take on its energy resourc...
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We want leaders who are not only smart but who care about other people. Now, at the same time, we must balance safety against just being a humanitarian. For instance, if there’s a rabid dog running aro...
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The NSA ended its program involving bulk collection of Internet metadata inside the United States in 2011. This Internet metadata program was the genesis of the legal theory that authorizes bulk collect...
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By week’s end, the major players in the South and East China Sea will have participated in three separate international conferences touching on tensions in the Asian-Pacific. The meetings include the G-2...
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French President François Hollande has called for the United States, Russia, and France to form a global coalition to fight against ISIS.