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Our guest for episode 61 of the Cyberlaw podcast is Joseph Nye, former dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard and three-time national security official for State, Defense, and the National Intelligence Co...
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President Obama has begun stumping for the recently negotiated Iran nuclear deal. On Saturday, he gave an interview with the New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman. Meanwhile, yesterday, he spoke with NPR’s ...
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Over at The New Rambler Review – a new online book review site that I highly recommend – I have a piece on Bruce Schneier’s new book, Data and Goliath. An excerpt that provides a sense of the book:
Data...
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From the FISC’s website:
“The Chief Justice has designated Judge James P. Jones of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and Judge Thomas B. Russell of the United States ...
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Since last week’s announcement of a “framework agreement” on the Iranian nuclear program, I’ve been bothered by a handful of troublesome ambiguities.
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Twitter and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey. The move comes after the sites failed to comply with an order issued last week by the Istanbul First Criminal Courts of Peace to take down footage of an I...
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Some of it is very funny. And there's a very interesting discussion starting at 19:30 about how well he understood---and to what extent he read---the documents he disclosed.
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A story that broke on Thursday became all the more horrific as details poured in over the weekend: Somali militants associated with the Shabab slaughtered 147 students at Garissa Univeristy College in Ea...
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Editor’s Note: Since 9/11, the United States has sought to prevent terrorists from enjoying safe havens from which they can build their organizations and plot attacks. Yet the term “safe haven” means dif...
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With a tenuous ceasefire holding in Ukraine, we asked Fiona Hill onto the show to discuss the man behind the unrest: Vladimir Putin. Hill is the co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, and a Se...
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Happy Anniversary! On Tuesday, John Bellinger marked ten years since passage of UN Security Counsel Resolution 1593, the resolution that referred the situation in Darfur, Sudan to the Prosecutor of the I...
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For those who want the key primary source materials on yesterday's Iran nuclear deal, here they are.
The US Government issued a fact sheet on the parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JC...
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Yesterday, President Obama announced a preliminary agreement with Iran that would significantly scale back Iran’s nuclear capabilities. The details of the interim agreement, nicely summarized over at the...
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As Wells noted when it first came out last month, the Brennan Center has a new report: What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. Despite the title, the report is really a condensed history of the Foreign Inte...
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Yesterday there was a small ceremony at the International Criminal Court to mark Palestine becoming the 123rd State Party to the Rome Statute. For all the attention this event received, what might ultim...
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Al-Qaeda militants seized al Mukallah prison in southeastern Yemen this morning, and in doing so, freed a number of inmates. Reports conflict as to how many prisoners escaped. BBC News reports 150; CNN s...
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I stand corrected. Yesterday, in my post about the new cyber-sanctions EO I made the point that it wouldn't apply to the Sony hack because Sony was not critical infrastructure. I was wrong, as several...
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Yesterday, I was up at Harvard Law School on a panel with Gabriella Blum talking about our new book: The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat.
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I have an op-ed in the International New York Times today entitled “Make ISIS’ Leaders Face Justice” in which I argue that the UN Security Council should refer the Islamic State to the International Crim...
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Remember these words the next time the New York Times runs a pious editorial decrying---with a spurious combination of selective facts and distorted law---some morally complicated aspect of U.S.