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In an address at a White House summit on countering violent extremism yesterday, President Barack Obama asserted that defeating ISIS will require a stable Syria and a political transition in the country,...
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[Cross-posted at Just Security]
With congressional hearings on the Obama Administration’s proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for the Islamic State on the horizon, we propose six...
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Episode 54 of the Cyberlaw Podcast features a guest appearance by Lawfare’s own Ben Wittes, discussing cybersecurity in the context of his forthcoming book, The Future of Violence, authored by Ben and Ga...
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Soon after Jack posted this piece on James Risen’s attacks on Eric Holder, which Ben had criticized earlier, the New York Times’s Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, wrote a post in support of Risen’s twee...
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President Obama made a refreshing observation during an interview with Re/Code at the White House Summit on Cyber Security and Consumer Protection in Silicon Valley last week. Following an exchange regar...
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I largely agree with Ben’s critique of James Risen’s sharp twitter criticisms of Attorney General Holder, but want to add (or reiterate) several points.
First, to underscore what Ben says, the absence o...
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In Guantanamo Bay, a military appeals court voided the conviction of David Hicks, an Australian who pleaded guilty in 2007 to providing material support to a terrorist group. (We posted the decision here).
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Are Submarines Becoming Obsolete? Perhaps, in light of enhanced data processing capabilities. "[T]he ability of submarines to hide through quieting alone will decrease as each successive decibel of noi...
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From the website of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB): this helpful table, which was assembled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and released today. It describe...
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Editor's note: Below, we offer our latest roundup of Lawfare-relevant items from the Middle East and North Africa. As we noted last week, this feature will appear occasionally and is modeled on Paul Rose...
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Yesterday, speaking at the National Press Club, Attorney General Eric Holder was asked a question about the Obama administration's prosecution of leakers, and he offered the following thoughts:
Question:...
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Yesterday’s New York Times carried a story about how the United States has found a way to “permanently embed surveillance and sabotage tools in [targeted] computers and networks.”
If the reporting on Eq...
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President Obama’s recent comments calling for a public debate on encryption are, as Susan Landau recently pointed out, some much-needed straight talk about the issue.
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The Miami Herald (via the AP's Ben Fox) has a piece on the Court of Military Commission Review's (CMCR) ruling; Jess Bravin also has this report in the Wall Street Journal.
The decision can be found he...
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Today, the White House hosts a summit to discuss the steps the United States can take towards “Countering Violent Extremism.” The Washington Post writes that “Obama is hoping to concentrate the world’s f...
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Monday’s district court decision enjoining President Obama’s immigration plan, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), was a strong rebuke of presidential overreaching, although it was framed as...
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Last Friday, as part of the Cybersecurity summit at Stanford, President Obama announced a new information sharing initiative, and issued an Executive Order that was tied to the initiative. The EO will, ...
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Yesterday, Egypt launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya. These bombings came in response to recently released Islamic State videos, depicting the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Chri...
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The press and the political junkies are all wrapped up in a discussion of the coming show down over the shut down of the Department of Homeland Security. The isn’t really about homeland security, of cour...
