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It seems Paul Oostburg Sanz, the Navy's General Counsel, will serve for the time being as the Guantanamo military commissions' Convening Authority---such temporary service being necessary in light of the...
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Editor's note: The following was originally published on Markaz, a publication run by the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy.
The Syrian uprising began four years ago. On Sunday, thanks to the Kor...
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The civil liberties group's report was released today. It was authored by Elizabeth Goitein and Faiza Patel (who has contributed pieces to Lawfare), and has a foreword by retired U.S.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party scored a decisive victory in yesterday’s Israeli election, setting the stage for him to serve a third consecutive---and fourth overall---term...
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In what is surely a typographical error, the Washington Post has named NSA General Counsel Raj De as the man behind the Snowden disclosures:
De’s last day was Friday, and he plans to start at Mayer Brown...
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In episode 58 of the Cyberlaw Podcast, our guest is Andy Ozment, who heads the DHS cybersecurity unit charged with helping improve cybersecurity in the private sector and the civilian agencies of the fed...
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As Iran and the P5+1 edge ever closer to an agreement, the public is beginning to get a peek at the general contours of the potential deal.
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After a bruising election cycle, Israelis head to the polls today to vote for the 20th Knesset. Thanks to a close race, current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in danger of losing his position. His...
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I'm not sure, but I think so.
From today's editorial, entitled, "Gen. Petraeus's Light Punishment":
Mr.
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On Tuesday afternoon, American media burst into an uproar at the news that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had apparently “revers[ed] his support for a two-solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
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Just in time for today's Israeli elections, the latest episode of Rational Security is now out, complete with my analysis of the lay of the land for today's voting, a discussion of interoperability and c...
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Anyone remember Samuel Loring Morrison? Espionage Act nerds certainly do.
Morrison was the first person prosecuted and convicted under the Espionage Act for leaking classified material? Morrison was con...
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In the wake of the White House announcement that it is going to create the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC), I wrote an essay for Lawfare regarding lessons for CTIIC that might be dra...
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In an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to suggest that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has a role to play in any negotiations to end the Syrian civil...
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The Supreme Court will decide the Jerusalem passport case, Zivotofsky, sometime between now and late June. (For details on the case, see the SCOTUSblog page and Lawfare coverage here and here and here.)...
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Last week the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of the UK Parliament published its much-anticipated report entitled "Privacy and Security: A Modern and Transparent L
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In his speech before Congress the other day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following comparison between the Iranian nuclear program and the North Korean path to nuclear weapons:
Insp...
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Editor’s Note: The latest attacks in Europe and the risk of terrorism from lone wolves and returned foreign fighters have led to an increased focus on preventing terrorism by stopping radicalization in t...
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President Obama’s Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough, has written a good response to Senator Corker’s letter to the President on the Iran nuclear deal. Recall that Senator Corker had asked “whether [the Pr...
