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I have been asked to write a chapter, tentatively entitled “Law and Warfare in the Cyber Domain,” for the next edition of Moore, Roberts & Turner, eds., National Security Law. As part of that effort, I ...
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Today is a sad day in the history of Lawfare; it marks the departure of Ritika Singh, our intrepid associate editor. Ritika has been a key part of Lawfare almost from its beginning. She started at the Br...
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One of the most eagerly awaited aspects of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ("PCLOB") report on section 702 surveillance was how the PCLOB would treat human rights issues. In January, 201...
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The New York Times this morning has an editorial objecting to the reinterpretation of Japan's constitution to make it a bit less pacifist:
Mr.
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Such was the exceedingly unshocking result of this morning's exceedingly brief detention hearing in the criminal case against Ahmed Abu Khattala.
In his remarks, prosecutor Michael DiLorenzo essentially...
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I am actually a tad surprised that Monday's filing did not come a touch more quickly.
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Abu Khattala, the man suspected of playing a key role in the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, is scheduled to appear in a Washington, D.C. district court for a detention hearing this morning.
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Get yer copy right here. Highlights:
In the days before the Attack, the defendant voiced concern and opposition to the presence of an American facility in Benghazi. On September 11, 2012, at approximatel...
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Here is a "pre-release" version of the report; the PCLOB will adopt a final version at its meeting tomorrow morning. It therefore has offered the still-not-yet-official document to the press and public,...
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Get it? Actually, I don't think they did either. It's a cute coincidence. But at any rate, the PCLOB has announced that it will be releasing its report on FISA 702 collection this evening at 9:00 pm:
The...
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The Washington Post shares the latest disclosure based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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Ahmed Abu Khattala is not the first person to be whisked onto a ship in the Middle East by U.S. forces, interrogated aboard, and then dropped in a U.S. court. There are some recent famous cases, of cours...
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Detailed defense counsel for Ammar al Baluchi, also known as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, had the following to say today, about a key filing in the 9/11 case:
Today, counsel for Ammar al Baluchi filed a motion ...
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While the rest of the world is watching the Supreme Court's final decision day of the year, it's been a busy time in the cyber world as well. Herewith seven (!) bits and bytes of interest, in no particu...
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The New York Times reports this morning that weeks before Blackwater guards massacred 17 civilians at Bagdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department abandoned an inquiry into the security contracto...
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President Obama has exercised executive power aggressively – as did his predecessor, albeit in different ways. I don’t have time to parse and compare the differences, but in a nutshell (and simplifying ...
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On Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper released the Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities for Calendar Year 2013. The introduction reads:...
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The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Riley v. California that searching a cell phone requires a warrant is groundbreaking---and is, as everyone says, a great step forward for privacy. The decision i...