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It is a great pleasure to welcome readers to Lawfare’s new web site.
Nearly five years ago, we announced what was then an incipient blog by three friends:
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The production of this new Lawfare site was a long process. It wasn't simple. It involved a huge amount of effort by lots of people. And it wasn't cheap. So this is the part where we pass around a collec...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Reports that China (most likely) has breached Office of Personnel Management (OPM) systems and stolen personal information (PI) of over four million current and/or former federal employees raises all sor...
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Editor’s Note: The United States would like to compartmentalize the Iran nuclear deal, continuing to oppose Iran’s subversion in the Middle East and hostility to Israel while assuring regional allies tha...
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Tamara is still away, so this week's Rational Security postcast featured special guest Nancy Yousseff of the Daily Beast. She joined Shane and me for a discussion of the USA Freedom Act's passage, Sheldo...
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As I announced on Friday, the Lawfare site on I am typing these words will, less than 48 hours from now, be a thing of the past. The site has given yeoman's service. But as they say in Ecclesiastes, ther...
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On Tuesday, the USA Freedom Act passed the Senate, was signed by the President, and became law. However, the enactment came almost two full days after key provisions of the USA Patriot Act had expired---...
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Fair warning: On Monday morning, Lawfare will look different---very different.
For the last year, we have been rebuilding the site. What began as a small blog of three friends has become an institution ...
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Charlie Savage of the New York Times writes in response to my post this morning critiquing
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Yesterday, the Obama administration announced a massive breach of federal employees’ data affecting at least four million government workers. The New York Times reports that the hack, which was first det...
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This looks very interesting. I haven't watch it yet, but I have heard good things.
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"Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency‘s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of mali...
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Press reports today (New York Times,
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Back in January, Sebastian Brady and I wrote a piece on the history and legal issues surrounding the border enclaves divided between India and Bangladesh.
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An air raid in Iraq has destroyed one of the Islamic State’s largest car bomb factories, reportsAgence France-Presse.
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Russia Trolls the Net — A fascinating, must read report from the NY Times: “From a nondescript office building in St.
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From Defense One:
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Now that the Senate has passed—and the President has signed—the USA FREEDOM Act, we thought it might be a good idea to recap what exactly the new law does and does not do.
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Late last night, President Barack Obama signed into the law the USA Freedom Act. The bill, which finally cleared the Senate with a vote of 67 to 32, curtails certain aspects of U.S.