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The release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl dominated this week's news---both nationally and on Lawfare. In exchange for Bergdahl’s liberation, the United States freed five Taliban leaders detained at Guantanamo B...
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And it's first tweet is, well, pretty amusing:
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
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I’m sure that I and others will have more to say about this in the future, but in the meantime, here is the summary and 88-page Vodafone transparency report that has been widely
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A few weeks ago, Ben posted some comments about a Der Spiegel article that suggested the tensions between the United States and Germany were likely to die down. Not so fast, it appears. Germany’s top pro...
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President Obama complained yesterday that Sergeant Bergdahl is “not a political football.” That should be true, but unfortunately President Obama is responsible for kicking off the football game by ann...
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Today marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The Allied invasion of Normandy remains the largest seaborne military invasion in history, and its importance for the Second World War was monumental. To commem...
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I haven't watched it yet, as I was doing a different event at the time of the hearing. But thanks to the magic of CSPAN and it's belated, but very welcome propensity for embed codes . .
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Today is the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures, and Ben is moderating a debate on the future of U.S. intelligence collection authorities. The resolution is “U.S. surveillance authorities requi...
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Still leading the news: The recent release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity, in exchange for transferring five Taliban Guantanamo detainees to Qatar for a year. In an address yesterday, Iran...
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The hearing on FISA reforms will get going today at 2:30 p.m, and (as always) be broadcasted live via C-SPAN. The witness line-up is below with links to written statements.
First Panel (Government):
Ja...
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I laughed when I heard former Vice-President Cheney on the Laura Ingraham show (approximately the 8:15-9:10 mark) criticizing President Obama for not notifying Congress under Section 1035 of the 2014 NDA...
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The question of the composition of the FISA Court---politically, demographically, and in terms of professional background---has arisen periodically throughout the last year. It has given rise to news cov...
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The controversy over the liberation of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl continues. Early today, the Taliban released a video showing Bergdahl's handover to U.S. forces. He is shown with a clean-shaven head and face, a...
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We begin this week’s podcast with Edward Snowden’s NBC interview and the kerfuffle over his claim to have raised concerns about the agency’s intelligence programs before he launched his campaign of leaks...
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Today the government filed its response opposing Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Janko's petition for an en banc rehearing. Back in January, a three-judge panel of the D.C.
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Today's ruling in Smith v. Obama grants the government's motion to dismiss, and thus bats away a Fourth Amendment-based challenge to NSA telephone metadata collection---for the reasons one would expect. ...
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The topic of net neutrality (i.e.
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Over at Point of Order, Michael Stern has an amusing and informative reflection on how President Washington might have responded to a House inquiry into a military defeat in the Northwest Territories, ha...
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Following up on last weeks indictment of 5 Chinese PLA members for economic espionage, the Department of Justice continued yesterday its apparent prosecutorial offensive against cyber criminals. The cas...
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The Obama Administration has backed away from its suggestions over the weekend that it failed to comply with the notice requirement in Section 1035 of the 2014 NDAA on constitutional grounds.