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What are the implications of failing to deem the Charleston shootings "terrorism"?
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Editor’s Note: The United States and its allies outsource most of their counterterrorism. Allies like Egypt and Jordan and frenemies like Pakistan do much of the heavy lifting, using their armies and int...
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On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Managing Editor Wells Bennett invited Steve Vladeck of both Lawfare and Just Security, and Adam Thurschwell, an attorney with the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel of th...
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On Monday, Ben
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I'm not certain this adds value, but I've decided to give Storify a shot. My first shot at it uses the platform to pull together my posts on the ongoing development of the statutory regime for oversight...
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U.N.-sponsored peace talks over the conflict in Yemen have ended without making any headway, Reuters writes. Earlier today, Saudi airstrikes pounded a site held by elite Republican Guard forces allied wi...
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A D.C. District judge ruled yesterday that the CIA can keep nearly all information related to its drone activities and the legal basis for them secret, reports Josh Gerstein of Politico. U.S.
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A little-noticed provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 might expand Congressional oversight of kill/capture operations conducted by the U.S. military. The change argua...
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveilance Court's memorandum opinion was signed on Wednesday. On first glance, Judge Dennis Saylor's conclusion seemingly was that the USA FREEDOM Act reinstated and at the sa...
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Last week at Just Security, Adam Jacobson took issue with our analysis of Guantanamo's role in jihadist propaganda—and challenged our claim, advanced in a prior piece on Lawfare, that Guantanamo actually...
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My response to the estimable Julian Sanchez on privacy groups and the OPM hack. Why expecting privacy groups to have something to say on the subject is not just "stupid posturing."
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Privacy advocates are embracing a recent report recommending that the government require bulk data retention by carriers and perhaps web service providers, exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction over dat...
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The New York Times reports that nine people were killed yesterday evening when a gunman opened fire on a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The gunman, whom the F.B.I.
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I am very pleased to announce a new feature on Lawfare and a new feature as well among our staple of podcasts. Some readers probably already follow the excellent Jihadology site, which collects primary s...
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Ḥarakat al-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn -- "Ethiopian Crusaders Massacred in an Ambush"
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The annual ritual has begun. Every June, official Washington waits in anticipation for the Supreme Court to complete its term. All of the "blockbuster" cases await decision. This year, most of the pre...
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الحمد للہ والصلوۃ والسلام علی رسول اللہ وبعد
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Don't blame the Chinese for the OPM hack, says former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden. If Hayden had had the ability to get the equivalent Chinese records when running CIA or NSA, he says, "I would n...