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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...
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The use of lethal force (whether via armed drone, manned aircraft, cruise missile, helicopter assault, etc.) has been a cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism policy for many years, both in places where we...
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From my book Data and Goliath:
...when I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose
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Yesterday’s news that a U.S. drone strike inadvertently killed two al Qaeda hostages---one American and one Italian---continues to reverberate throughout the Fourth Estate.
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Yesterday the President acknowledged that the United States inadvertently killed an American citizen and an Italian citizen held hostage by al-Qaida. The killings, he said, took place during “a U.S.
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Yesterday, I published this correspondence from a government lawyer who thought I had been unfair to Harold Koh in describing his role at the State Department as being "obstructionist" with respect to th...
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Today, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter unveiled the Pentagon's new cybersecurity strategy at Stanford University in a speech entitled "Rewiring the Pentagon: Charting a New Path on Innovation and Cybe...
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This morning, the White House announced that a U.S. drone strike targeting al Qaeda militants along the mountainous border of Afghanistan and Pakistan killed two Western hostages in January.
