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The NYT reported yesterday that the Iran Review bill is “now endangered by Republican amendments that would peel away bipartisan support for a measure begrudgingly accepted by the White House this month.
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Riots rocked Baltimore yesterday in response to the death of Freddie Gray. Gray had suffered a severe spinal injury while in police custody earlier this month. He succumbed to his injuries the weekend be...
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Director of National Intelligence General Counsel Bob Litt says the NYT “disgraced itself” by “publishing an article in which it purported to name three covert CIA officers.” The article in question iden...
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Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article on congressional support for the C.I.A.'s drone program. In describing the program's leadership, the Times saw fit to reveal the identity of thre...
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This actually happened last week, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has introduced and fast-tracked a bill (S. 1035) to extend through the year 2019 three USA Patriot Act provisions set to expir...
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Here's an interesting demonstration of how much more powerful robots are becoming. A group at Stanford has produced tiny robots that can lift, while climbing up walls, more than 100 times their own weigh...
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Earlier this month, the government of the Netherlands hosted a Global Conference on Cyberspace, which was, apparently, fairly well received, as the Chair's Statement suggests.
One important side event, ...
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The response was filed on Friday, in the habeas case of Al-Warafi v. Obama. Have a look:
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A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday morning, leaving thousands dead, from Kathmandu all the way to the slopes of Mount Everest. AP reports that the death toll has soared past 3,300 and is on...
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Last week was the annual RSA convention in San Francisco, the premier convention of cybersecurity professionals in America each year. This year the largest crowd ever gathered at the Moscone Center, and...
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[Update: Ryan Goodman has an excellent post here noting that a January 2013 WaPo article anticipated that CIA would get a waiver for Pakistan ops, albeit not necessarily a waiver specific only to the imm...
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Editor’s Note: The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been ugly. Pakistan’s efforts to control and influence Afghanistan have played a major role in advancing radical groups like the ...
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I was privileged to speak this week at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas on Gabriella Blum and my new book, The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hacker...
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On Thursday, the Obama administration revealed that a January drone strike killed two hostages being held by Al Qaeda, one American and one Italian. Jack noted that this openness by the administration ab...
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The publication of DOD's new cyber strategy is a milestone and a major step forward in the cyber policy debate. In particular, the strategy is notable for its relative openness about the use of offensiv...