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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...
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This week, Kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group -- almost certainly the NSA -- and its abilities to embed spyware deep inside computers, gaining pretty much t...
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Editor’s Note: The White House summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) that will begin tomorrow is a bold attempt to tackle the “root causes” of terrorism. Yet more than a decade after 9/11, neither...
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That's the title of this interesting piece, on foreign affairs preemption and executive agreements. The author is Daniel Silverberg, a lawyer working in the House of Representatives on national security ...
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Much of the discussion in recent days about the Obama draft AUMF for ISIL contains mistakes and misconceptions, at least as I see matters.
The Draft AUMF Does Not Limit The President. The biggest canar...
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The president gave a clear and thoughtful interview on the encryption debates Friday, and he nailed the issue.
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The New York Times thinks President Obama's draft AUMF is dangerously broad:
The parameters of a proposed war authorization the White House sent to
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After the ups and downs of this week's hearings in the military commissions case of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al., Thursday provided a much more straightforward series of motions brought...
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Editor’s Note: Fears about nuclear weapons and concerns about East Asia typically reside in separate worlds. But one risk of a rising China that is usually ignored is how it affects the risk of nuclear w...
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A few weeks ago, Shane Harris and Benjamin Wittes spoke at Washington and Lee School of Law’s symposium on Cyber-surveillance in the Post-Snowden Age. Shane and Ben are familiar names to frequent Lawfare...
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After months of dithering, President Barack Obama sent a draft Authorization for Use of Military Force for ISIS to Congress on Wednesday. As it became clearer that the administration would formally reque...
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As many know, the White House held a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University today. In addition to President Obama, a number of CEOs also spoke on privacy and security iss...
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The latest episode of Rational Security is now out. Enjoy!
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In this week’s episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I take our new mobile recording equipment to Paris to talk about Europe’s cybersecurity directive with Alex Klimburg, of the Hague Institute for Strategic ...
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Below you will find a compilation of public statements and reactions to President Obama’s draft ISIL-specific AUMF. In short: Democrats are concerned there aren't enough limits, and Republicans can’t un...
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ISIS militants have seized Al-Baghdadi, a town in western Iraq, and have begun advancing toward nearby Ayn Al-Assad Air Base, which houses U.S. military personnel, CNN reports.
